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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: How to fight telemarketers
- Message-ID: <185110@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:46:08 GMT
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- In article <C19L1C.B85@icon.rose.hp.com> bparrish@rose.hp.com (Bill Parrish) writes:
- >
- >Continuing this discussion on telemarketing...
- >
- >Last night I got a call soliciting money from an organization called the
- >Police Officers Research Association (I think it was... definately had
- >the word Research... so I was guessing they were doing a survey).
- >
- >The guy said they are the largest organization advocating rights for
- >police officers... After I told him I knew several police officers,
- >and none of them had ever mentioned the organization to me, they
- >finally went away... but I'm curious... is this legit? If not, maybe
- >a scam alert is called for.
- >
- The Santa Clara County Sheriff has some sort of organization
- running a similar scam in the area. I once contributed...and
- the receipt that came had the disclaimer notice that identified
- this supposedly affiliated charity as a Political Action
- Committee.
-
- The thing is actually run by some deputies...and the folks you
- deal with are usually deputies, but it is NOT really affiliated
- with any legitimate charity.
-
- >(as an aside)... for some reason this time of year (mid January) always
- >brings a rash of these sorts of calls in our area. Maybe the new directory-
- >by-phone-numbers comes out in January... we are not in the street-address
- >directory because we unlisted our address with Pac Bell to prevent exactly
- >this sort of thing.
- >
- A sequential auto-dialler just dials numbers. It doesn't use
- directories as such.
-
- Strange, I usually get the calls in the summer.
-