Complaint

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ann
Country: Australia
It is 2.55 pm on Saturday , 6th June, and I have just received another of those frustrating annoying, pestering, nuisance overseas phone calls.  This particular person (company unknown) but suspected from India has rung me at least once per day any hour.  Hanging up does not good, not interested, no good NOTHING will stop them I am ready to chop the phone to pieces and would only it is a necessity.  WHY do we have to have them - short of changing my number to a silent one is there no way to stop them?

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    tj
    Cheap overseas outsourcing of telemarketing or debt collection call centers has resulted in an increase in violations of U.S. laws, since the overseas perpetrators apparently feel even more immune to legal sanctions than U.S. perpetrators.  It sounds like you are facing the same problem in Australia.

    Most telemarketing or debt collection calls are autodialed.  If your goal is to restore peace and quiet to your home, there are boxes you can insert between your incoming phone line and the phones in your house that effectively block autodialed calls.  

    They answer your phone with a message, and unlike just voice mail, that message can be a code that must be punched in to ring through, allowing legitimate human callers to reach you while defeating dumb autodialers typically used by call centers.
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    tm
    A fax switch also works great.
    I have on on one of my lines and have noticed that they never make it past the fax switch. When the switch answers it generates a false ring and test the line for a fax call.

    When the automated caller detects the false ring it gives up and hangs up.

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