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the robots are calling

post #1 of 10
10/16/09 at 9:40am
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I'm getting constant calls that come up on the caller ID as "New Jersey Call." Always 1-973-273-4671.


The machine picks up, and the call is dead. I call back, and I get stuck in an on-hold auto-attendant that never ends. This is really the stuff of nightmare scary movies. Who is this caller? Why are they bothering me? KILL THE ROBOT WITH FIRE!


Anyone else being called by this same robot from New Jersey? A google of the number turns up (among other things) a robot-calling company called "powerconnex," http://www.powerconnex.com.au/ I might try to block all 973 area code numbers from my system (I don't know anyone else in NJ).


What's up?


MC

 

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post #2 of 10
10/16/09 at 10:10am
973 is northern NJ...  

From a google:

http://phoneowner.info/Number.aspx/9732734671

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-973-273-4671

Jay (who is in northern NJ but I'm actually not 973 since I have a cell phone only)

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post #3 of 10
10/16/09 at 10:44am
I don't get many calls at the house, but at work I am in purchasing so I get many calls.
My phone rules:
  1. Get on the "do not call list"
  2. Never pick up the phone with out checking the caller ID
  3. If I do not recognize the caller ID or it is blocked - let the answering machine get it.
  4.  If anyone calls and I don't know who it is and they don't leave a message - I don't call back.
  5.  If pressing "0" does not connect me to a live person, I hang up and take my business elsewhere. They don't care about their customers.
  6. If the message starts with "Hello Mr. Robbins", they obviously don't know me. So depending on how busy I am at the time, I usually don't listen to the message.
  7. If I am already in a conversation with someone and the cell phone rings, I press the silent button and check the message later. If a person was standing there, chances are they would not interrupt, so I don't make exceptions for the cell phone either. (unless I am expecting a very important call.)

Maybe that's why nobody ever calls me at the house?
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post #4 of 10
10/16/09 at 12:45pm
I also don't pick up the phone if the caller's number is blocked.

And I advise not calling back.  I once got a message from this angry women saying I did all these horrible things and to leave her alone, and on and on - so I immediately started to call back to say, "wait you have the wrong guy".  Just before the call went through I realized it had one of those extensions where you sometimes have to pay to call.  I hung up and never heard back.
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post #5 of 10
10/16/09 at 5:00pm
If I pick up the phone and the line sounds dead, I immediately put it down again before the bot can put me through to one of the payed operators.
And of course I won't try to call back.

Cees
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post #6 of 10
10/16/09 at 11:20pm
My house finally dropped its land line entirely because we were always being harassed by debt collectors looking for some woman who had apparently given out our number as hers (probably just made up a number at random and we were the unlucky ones). We'd notify them and they'd remove us for awhile, then start calling again after a few weeks.

First, we just hooked up an answering machine. Then we shut off the ringer. It wasn't far to go to simply drop the land line entirely.


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post #7 of 10
10/17/09 at 8:22am
Haven't had a land line in years and loving it! Our phone use to ring all day long with telemarketers and other annoying crap, we finally got cellphones and dropped the land line. Best decision we made about phones.
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post #8 of 10
10/20/09 at 8:08am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cees Alons View Post

If I pick up the phone and the line sounds dead, I immediately put it down again before the bot can put me through to one of the payed operators.

I do that too. But I had a friend who always took a few seconds to get to "Hello" after I answered, and I chronically hung up on him. He'd call back a minute later with, "Dude, don't hang up, it's Matt." 

This week I found that The Red Cross's auto-reminder service takes about 10 seconds to start its reminder and confirmation message. I hung up on it the first time; it called back and I waited it out and found that it was a "good" robocaller. They need to fix that gap.

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post #9 of 10
10/20/09 at 9:07am
Don't get me started on the Red Cross calling.
www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/246682/there-after-my-blood

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post #10 of 10
10/21/09 at 6:28pm
Ooma+premier membership+blacklist=no more unwanted calls.
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