Initially the focus of this blog was to discuss things of a technical and related to computer and in particular open source software.
once I was considering using it to protest, not because they intend to get anything, but rather as a tantrum, you sit helpless and at least want off your chest out there telling you what happened.
On that occasion when I was about to write, I did something like this has a certain Javier, in a
comments (see comment 3-February-2009) of another victim of phone spam. It was a day when I received 8 calls from telemarketers offering limited services on call, and one of them was more aggressive than usual.
At that time most of the calls were from telecom operators in Latin American accent. My way was to defend ask from which country the calling . The reason was simple: if the call was from Spain
quoted the Data Protection Act, he told them he wanted to be discharged and requested contact details for the company to formally request the pretext of my floor. The truth is that sometimes it worked and it was getting itself teleoperator which I hang (I guess the main reason was to avoid wasting time with a potential client would not hire any services).
Telekomor
times in one conversation (call from number withheld) went something like - Good evening, my name is NNNNN CCCCC company and called him to offer SSSSS service.
- Good afternoon, can you tell me which country is calling me?
... A few seconds of silence. I guess that question is not on his script and dislocated left ... - I'm not calling from the Basque Country. ... Then that gets messed me. I do not know if my interlocutor teases me or is that their knowledge of geography do not arrive or to know from which country called ... - Look, if I respond I will not attend. (Hang)
a few seconds I get a call (again from hidden number)
- Say you are a rude, if not interested I could have said and not have to hang ... - "I being rude? In other words, You call me just to insult me? You are a scoundrel ...
(I hang up without even letting me finish the sentence) again received another call from hidden number within seconds. Fed up, I decide not to pick. The phone stops ringing, but few seconds later, it sounds again. This time is a number that starts with 91. I pick and I meet again with the same telephone operator, shouting loudly in a threatening tone. Simply send her to hell and hang up.
In the next 30 minutes back to receive several phone calls, some of the same 91 and other anonymous. Step to lose more time and hook to an anonymous insult me.
is at that time when I was tempted to tell all on the blog, but as my responsibilities go far beyond my free time, and in fact just write a few articles a year, I decided to forget the issue and devote myself to have things interesting in the short time I can devote to writing.
At that time (mid 2008) was a rare day that did not receive 3 or 4 calls of this type. In August 2008 in major newspapers (the world
,
the country) and in many posts we see that the leaders have echoed the abuse (certainly one of them hit him also deal with such calls) and
announce that they will amend the law to combat spam
phone. Already in some blog comments, someone
hinted that this law would not change anything, as it has.
The fact is that, at least in my home, there were a few months of respite in which we received some 30 calls this week to get just 2 or 3.
suppose that during this time, the legal departments of companies that break the phone live on the lives of citizens, engaged in digging until they found a loophole and saw that the law was absolutely useless. The case is that as of February 2009, the situation is the same.
Even today, I explained to a telemarketer that if yesterday did not interest me what you gave me, today I would still be interested. I reminded him that yesterday I asked them to give me low on your list, and today I ask again. I guess soon I will call back (how considerate!, As such a good deal, does not want to lose me and he insists on calling).
As with spam e-mail (a few companies produce virtually all the circulating), in my house there are 3 companies that generate 80% of these calls. There are several blogs
others who have suffered this type of call. In one of them and give some indication act proposing legal means. The problem of acting legal route is the inaccessibility of practice for those who can not devote much time and have limited legal knowledge. Not everyone can afford to be 14 months (and still is not resolved) by sending faxes, providing evidence and risking being attacked legally by counsel for the defendant
only to stop
phone call (and no have done it yet.)
History, and the comments of other victims, no waste: I
,
II, III . As the law (yet) does not seem have no effect, and have developed a device for cutting this type of call:
TrueCaller
, the problem is that the joke comes to us 100 euros. We can also choose to try to despair to the caller, acting as would a service and customer care . One last reference: An excellent article in Consumer, explaining the operation of call center .
Update (22-May-2009) : Re-read the government to ban spam phone (But I had not done already?) mucas The news includes things that sound too good to be credible. The fact that in two weeks has been an election remains a little more credibility to it (strangely enough, that news was passed just before the elections are those that seem to care about the city, and usually leave for a days after which all these rights trampled with impunity.)
Finally, try to be positive, try to believe them and see if within four days, the roster is to say that if a number comes published in a directory, this indicates that, implicitly, the Contractor will be willing to receive sales calls with no restrictions on numbers or timetables. Update (27-July-2009) : Indeed, as I indicated a little over two months, new measures have not been for nothing. The abuses are still occurring at the time and as often as they want callers indiscriminately.
This last week I received an unusually high number of calls from the 1485 (one day they called me, they did around 11:30 pm, indicated that they wanted no part of your company and that same day at 13:30 were calling me again.) Fed up, I registered my phone number in www.listarobinson.es
Within days know if the service in question is useful or is it just other more in this circus pantomime of abuse and banter in which citizens are the comic element of the show.
