Sent the following message to the FCC, for lack of better place to send it:

[azurelunatic]

I recieved today a call from an organization where the caller did not identify herself or her organization. She asked for my roommate. I asked if I could take a message or help; she began what sounded to be a survey or sales pitch.

I asked her to please put us on their Do Not Call list; she told me that only my roommate (who is NOT responsible for the phone in any way) is the only one who could place our household on their Do Not Call list, and hung up on me before I could make any further inquiries.

Attempts to call the number resulted in either a busy signal, or the curt notice that my call had been recieved, and Customer Service had been notified, then a disconnect.

Having previously worked for a phone survey company, something strikes me as wrong about that.




http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/abernathy/mail.html

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Eh, no. She's incredibly wrong. If someone in the household says, "Do Not Call list", you put them on it. It doesn't matter if you train the dog to bark it.

Make sure the FCC gets that number, because that's a nice little violation right there.

[azurelunatic]

Nice to know that.

I think I'll start eris_raven with the voice lessons.