Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - XKeyscore - heard of it?
View Single Post
 
Old 08-04-2013, 09:11 PM
Schaumburger's Avatar
Schaumburger Schaumburger is offline
Sage
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Schaumburg, IL - Chicago suburb - TV Wannabee
Posts: 4,257
Thanks: 1,004
Thanked 165 Times in 81 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Virtual Geezer View Post
I wish the FTC would talk to the NSA and get a handle on robo calls. with the information they have along with the computer power it would be very easy to track down the numbers that are generating the robo calls. The one big complaint about 911 was that agencies were not talking to one another, well here is a good chance to put that theory to work.

Ohio residents are getting at least 4 robo phone calls a day on lane line and cell phones and this has been going on for months. Calls start at 8:00 am and go until 9:00 pm. Local newspapers have written stories about it and it still goes on. The is a company wanting you to change natural gas service. I have a friend who lives in a totally electric home and he still gets 4 calls a day.

VG
Agree with you on this. A few months ago I switched electric service suppliers (in the Chicago area we can choose which company supplies the electricity for our homes). A couple of weeks later I received 5 calls in one day from the same phone number which showed up on my Caller ID. I happened to be home one weekday when I received another call from this number. It was my former electric provider trying to find out why I switched providers. I told them when they lowered their rates I would be glad to switch back to them. The reply I received was "sorry about that", then the person hung up on me. Fie on robo calls.