It’s been pretty quiet around here on the telemarketing front. I have not received any more calls from the numbers I have discussed here recently. Perhaps CitiMortgage/CitiBank, whom I blame for the recent rash of telemarketing calls, has filtered out the information to their partners that I do not want to be bothered with their calls. Lord, I hate CitiMortgage/CitiBank.
While I have not received any calls for a while, I did get one back on October 3 at around 7:00 in the evening. This time the caller ID was displaying the following number: 800-786-0685, which was displayed on my TV screen thanks to my Dish Network DVR’s caller ID feature, which I just love.
I certainly was not about to get up from my recliner to answer a telephone call that originated from an 800 number. To me that says “phone spam” loud and clear. In other words, telemarketer!
A bit later I looked up that particular phone number using a search engine and discovered that that it was indeed a telemarketer. Other people who had received calls from that number reported that it was some kind of “business opportunity” nonsense and when they tried returning the call, they were simply left listening to a seemingly endless recording of music.
Being naturally curious, I called the number myself and ended up hearing the music just as the others had described. That’s kind of odd and makes me wonder if it is just the tactic these low-life telemarketers use to avoid talking to people who call them back to complain.
What’s even more strange is that I have not heard back from them again. Who ever heard of a telemarketing outfit that does not call back after they call once and get an answering machine? They are making me feel like George Costanza in that Seinfeld episode where the cult-controlled carpet cleaning company would not bother trying to recruit him!
Seriously though, I am much happier to never hear from these weasels again and my feeling will absolutely not be hurt if they never call me again.
Makes me wonder if these most recent callers were part of the CitiMortgage/CitiBank family of annoying telemarketers.
So, this is day eight with no telemarketing calls whatsoever. Here’s hoping it can stay that way for a long time.
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