As I’ve said before, these telemarketers are a persistent bunch. At 9:18 this morning the phone rang it was my friends from Chase again. The fellow that called had a thick Indian accent, so apparently the big greedy credit card companies are now outsourcing out-going calling services (I had only encountered these when making a [...]

Now that my complaint to the FCC seems to have silenced the calls from CitiMortgage and their "affiliates," another company has decided to disturb the peace in my home.
This time it’s Chase Bank and since I do have a Chase credit card, they are allowed by law to make telemarketing calls to our home. The [...]

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Well, not completely silent. I still hear from family and friends, but I have not had a single telemarketing call or call that has shown up from someone named “Unavailable” on my Caller ID since I filed a complaint with the FCC back in June.
I had long suspected that nearly all the telemarketing calls I [...]

I can remember my mother buying those “ant traps” when I was a kid whenever we would see a few ants in the house. They were like little tiny tin cans an inch or so high that had holes on the sides so the ants could enter and get access to the bait inside that [...]

I don’t know what the U.S. Postal Service says about theft of packages by its employees, but it does happen. The good news is that I discovered a very effective way to help prevent it from happening.
Let me be the first to admit that this discovery is not based on any kind of intentional test [...]

If you have a credit card you have probably received those nifty checks in the mail from your credit card company. Some call them “convenience” checks and I am sure there are other appealing-sounding names for them, depending on the company that is promoting their use.
As you may suspect, the idea behind these checks is [...]

I think it all started with a web site somewhere that my wife visited and entered her name and phone number for some purpose or another.
The telephone rang a month or so ago and when I glanced at the Caller ID display, it read “Out of Area.” Uh oh, those are almost always trouble and [...]

Have you noticed lately, that every time you call some big company to ask a question or get help with something you get the old “Due to the heavy call volume we are experiencing, there may be a delay in being connected to a customer service representative” routine? Or at least something close to that?
No [...]

This is certainly not the first time something like this has happened but it has become so irritating that I wanted to say something about it.
To answer my own question from above, yes I hate spam. I have always hated spam and I hate it more than you can imagine.
The issue here is not the [...]