Guess what, the do not call registry doesnt apply to non profit groups, so i guess all you cowards will still be getting calls, maybe if you get a life or a job, you wont be home to answer, cowards!

Two things that I intent to try to the next telemarketer with a spoofed caller ID: (1) attempt to bribe them. If you offer them $100 for information about what company they're calling from, making it clear that you're not interested in them but rather the company, perhaps you can get them to tell you the information, and then file a claim in a small claims court for your $500 authorized by the TCPA. (2) There was an economist that won the nobel prize for realizing that to reduce crime you can either increase enforcement, which is costly, or increase the risk to the criminal, for example by increasing the penalties. In other words, threaten to sue them personally for $530,000 based on some authoritatively sounding information unless they surrender the identity of their company -- perhaps state that you have ways of finding their identity, you're just trying to save yourself sometime...who knows, it may work.

WASTE THEIR TIME!
They're now using spoofed caller ID with a pre-recorded message telling you that your car warranty is about to expire or your credit card rates are too high. They get you to press "1" to get more information. They somehow feel that if you pressed "1", you're interested in the call, and it indemnifies them from the Do Not Call law, which of course it does not.

I go ahead and press "1" and act like a bumbling old man. If it's about consolidating my credit cards, I tell them I have about three cards, all run up to the max, and you can hear them salivating over this. I'm the perfect target: I have a lot of run-up credit, I'm old, and stupid. I bumble around for as long as I can, calling out to my wife to get my wallet so I can read off my credit card number. I ask a bunch of stupid questions like, is this going to cost me a bunch of money to combine all these balances, or can I get more credit, and stuff like that. Another thing to do is to talk in circles or ask them to keep repeating themselves.

If it's a car warranty, I always start with, "Now is this about the Cadillac or the Ford?" (I don't own either) I go off asking about if this is part of the extended warranty I have with the dealership, and they always make up stuff like, "We work with the dealership (lie)." I go off into some side story about how I was never happy with that car because the valve cam timing was never right from the beginning, and I could never get that no good dealer to listen to me. I ask her if she knows the dealer. They start getting impatient. You have to talk fast.

If it's a credit card offer, I make up a number and rattle it off to her. She says that's not a valid credit card, and I say, oh, that's my library card. Then I say, well now, let me ask you a question. And I finally break character and say in a very clear voice, "What does DO NOT CALL" mean to you? What does the Federal Do Not Call Registry mean to you, and why does your company use a spoofed caller ID? I'm just curious? Does it bother you morally that your company does that? It would bother me. But that's the way I was raised. I'm in the Midwest, and my mother raised me to not lie to people. Does it bother you morally that the company you work for uses a misleading message to get people to press "1" ? It would me, but that's just the way I am. You know with the way people have been hit with the flooding and price of gas and the economy and all, I guess I just couldn't bring myself to do that to people like that..."

I actually had one guy answering, yes, it did bother him. Most of them get furious with me that I wasted their time. And I say, "Oh, was I MISLEADING you??!! Was I MISREPRESENTING myself? Kinda like spoofing a caller ID, isn't it?" It rarely goes on very long, but some of them do go on a bit longer, because they've been duped, and they want to yell at me, and I want them to know that I just wanted to waste some of their time because what they're doing is wrong. That's about the time they hang up on me. It can be quite entertaining.

There was a funny video online about a telemarketer calling a guy to ask him about a product. Little did he knew that the guy was a show host and he was in for a surprise. The TV man answered the phone and then pretended he's a detective and that the man who the telemarketer called was dead. Thus the telemarketer became a prime suspect. You should search it and hear the fear in his voice.

What a wonderful Kit! Anti-Telemarketing Action Kit. I will indeed use this probably tomorrow.
The most annoying, and persistent call I keep getting these days is, a prerecorded message that tells me my car warranty is about to expire, please hold the line for a live operator and after waiting 5minutes or so I hang up. They usually call about 4 to 7 times a day.
The next in line after that one is: my mortgage company is charging me too much, and looking at my credit file they are able to offer me a substantial reduction in my monthly payments with the new funding award they have received from the government.
Or how about this one: Nothing is wrong with your credit card, and is currently up to date, but you have qualified for a consolidated loan to put an end to credit card debt. For this one I waited on the line, when the lady came on the line, I said how did you get my number? Which card qualifies me for this new consolidated loan? Naturally she didn't have an answer, so then I asked her name, and she hung upon me. I do not own a credit card.
I love this organization. UCAN. Make a donation. best investment I have ever made. They are doing a job no other has been able to accomplish, thus far.

It would be great if there was a way to deal with pre-recorded phone messages on your answering machine. For example, if you offered participation in a pre-recorded phone message project. That would be awesome.

read this guys account. it has the tool he used to find the telephone numbers, not thats not to say the telemarketers wont simply spoof the phone number but you can try.

http://www.panix.com/~eck/telemarket.html

What should I do if a telemarketer (faxer!!) hangs up on me without answering who they are? Does anybody know how I can find the name of the company behind the phone number?