# Suggestions on how to handle this telemarketer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-handle-this-telemarketer/630785 "2012-08-07T21:41:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-handle-this-telemarketer/630785/41 "2012-08-08T20:40:01Z")
If we make telemarketing a Capital Crime and televise the hideously painful and drawn-out executions, it might slow them down a bit. Simulpost with **Shodan**. I feel so dirty. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-handle-this-telemarketer/630785/42 "2012-08-08T20:45:27Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Blocking one number from an obsessive ex can work very well. However, telemarketers sell numbers to each other, and they also spoof their ID phone numbers, so it doesn’t work nearly so well on them. Yeah, trying to ban specific numbers is a losing proposition. I get telemarketer/scammer calls on my cell phone, and I created a “Morons” contact entry with a silent ring tone where I save each number that calls. It’s got about 40 different numbers in it so far, from area codes all over the U.S. They almost never use the same number twice, in my experience. I just never answer the phone for numbers I don’t recognize. If it’s a legit call, they can leave a message and I’ll call back. The assholes comprising the remaining 99.9999% of unrecognized numbers can go light themselves on fire until I figure out a way to do it with my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-handle-this-telemarketer/630785/43 "2012-08-08T20:47:39Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > If you find out what to do, post it here so I can do it too. The assholes at Credit Account Services have been harassing me for months. > > They kept hanging up the instant I started telling them to put me on their DNC list. The only time I got the whole phrase out, the jackhole at the other end informed me that, because I pressed 1 “to speak to a representative about lowering my credit card rates”, that meant that I wanted them to keep calling. > > Now I just scream abuse at them. It doesn’t do any good about making them call less, but it makes me feel better, and it makes the job of violating the law that much worse for the depraved idiot at the other end. > > Regards, > Shodan Does [this](http://www.bbb.org/blog/2011/07/credit-card-robocalls-resurface/) sound familiar? If these are the people calling you a whistle in their ear sounds quite appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-handle-this-telemarketer/630785/44 "2012-08-08T20:56:18Z")
Is it Rachel? From Carholder Services? Just googling the term will take you to dozens of news outlets that have done in depth stories on them. In summary they say there’s not much to be done with them as they keep skirting the law by renaming the comapny so as one gets sued and closes down another pops up with the same equipment. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-handle-this-telemarketer/630785/45 "2012-08-08T22:16:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If we make telemarketing a Capital Crime and televise the hideously painful and drawn-out executions, it might slow them down a bit. Vlad the [Impaler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Impaled.gif) had the right idea, just the wrong targets. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-handle-this-telemarketer/630785/46 "2012-08-09T19:43:33Z")
My post was not a joke. Any telemarketer who calls me will get a swear word loaded earful. I’ve yet to have one call me twice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-handle-this-telemarketer/630785.md?page=2)