While at the bar a friend (or close to exfriend) decides to use my phone to call one of these free 800 sports places you hear about on the shows for late night sports.
When confronted he said he couldn’t use his because his wife questions everything (separate story)
The issue is that my number must have gotten placed on some list, because non stop all week long I get calls from betting places in NJ and NV. They just wont stop even after explaining the story to them. They use lines like “cmon man look we all want to make money, you know you called, we got winners”
And today’s line “are you a tebeliever???”
Can anyone offer help to get my phone number off of whatever master list there is.
Initial research says they aren’t supposed to call if it’s 30days after a call and they have not been called, but it appears that they don’t follow those rules or they view calling me as a refreshment of that time limit.
I can’t just not answer because it is my business line (makes me that much more pissed at this guy for doing it)
I don’t know what you can do, but I must say that sucks and your friend needs to be punched. I would hate that even more, as I pay for each minute my phone is in use.
One thing you could try for now: “Sorry, I don’t take these kinds of calls”, then hang up.
Tell them you got a call for the FBI requesting your help in prosecuting illegal interstate gambling, and that you have to inform them that the call is being monitored. Then ask if they know any bookies.
Does the guy have a gambling problem? Weird thing to hide from your wife.
I appreciate the reply, I have the silent ring option on my phone where I add a contact like the other poster said, but this is what I gather from one person who talked to me for 5 minutes. He said we have 30 people in here and we each have a cellphone to call off of this list, “were gonna keep calling you, so you might as well use the service”
Sometimes they call blocked, sometimes 702 or 609 most of the time blocked. And customers called blocked also (not on purpose, some don’t know to disable it on their phones)
I don’t even want to call him out to his wife, but I’m so angry about this. Think of all the sports that are on, and they call for all of them.
Maybe you can call your phone provider for some advice?
Maybe there is a way to have your phone only accept calls from a list of recognized numbers?
It would be time consuming to input acceptable numbers though.
Or how about having all your calls go to voice mail for awhile and you explain your situation in your message. These people might give up if they never get you live on the phone. You’d have to be quick about returning calls though.
you say you’ve seen at least a couple of phone numbers, can you at least have your carrier block those?
and it might not hurt to repeatedly introduce your phone to your “friend’s” face with some force.
or just cut him out of your life, if you don’t want to be brought up on assault charges. People who do stuff like he did are leeches and not worth having as friends.
This came as a huge surprise to me but guess who got a call, I guess there are these things called Football games which people apparently bet on.
Anyway I mentioned that I would prefer to not be on their list and that I’ve asked numerous times that they not call me as it was someone else calling and if I received any more calls I would file a police report.
He said go ahead, we aren’t doing anything illegal, we provide information to people. Then I said I understand that but you are harassing me. You could almost hear the page turn to the section of the book where they have a retort ready.
“I’m not harassing you, I’ve never talked to you” yes, but John Anthony gaming has more times than I can count.
Unless you let him.
When I get unsolicited calls like this, I hang up within a few seconds. “Sorry, I’m not interested. <click>.” They soon stop calling back. At least, I presume so – I don’t really wait long enough to identify them specifically.
I have to second this. Just hang up. I don’t even say sorry after one call from the same people, just click. After a few times they really do give up. And even if they persist, you won’t be wasting your time. I don’t really understand why anyone would have a conversation with someone who is trying to sell them something they don’t want to buy. No need to be rude but no need to converse either. Click.
The Do Not Call list does NOT apply to businesses with which you have had a prior business relationship. And since there was a prior call to them from this cell phone (and probably a purchase), they are allowed to call the number.
The five-minute conversation was the OP explaining to that caller why they shouldn’t call, and the caller explaining to the OP why they were going to call anyway. After getting a jillion calls from numerous different entities about the same thing, one might indeed be tempted to do something weird and crazy like having a brief conversation in the hopes of getting it to stop.