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 [...]

Well, I received some evidence that my complaint to the FCC regarding telemarketing calls from companies "on behalf" of CitiMortgage may actually result in some type of action.
An envelope arrived in my mailbox yesterday from the FCC. Basically, it was just a hard copy of the forms I filled out on their website and a [...]

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’ve certainly had my share of trouble with telemarketers since the unfortunate circumstance that resulted in my mortgage being sold to CitiMortgage. CitiBank and their who-knows-how-many parent companies and child companies and nephew companies has been on my list of companies to avoid doing business with for a long time and these latest shenanigans only [...]

Why do they always call when I am relaxing in my chair watching TV? Fortunately, our Dish Network DVR is connected to the telephone line and it displays the Caller ID info right on our TV screen. The number was one I did not recognize and that usually means trouble.
The Caller ID data included the [...]