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The most annoying telemarketer ever

:: Tuesday, May 24th, 2005 @ 3:17:06 pm

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I’ve been receiving daily automated calls from 702-260-5955 (from Caller ID). A recorded female voice says, “This call is regarding an important business matter. Please call Miss Fremont at 1-800-257-0896. This is not a sales call.” Daily calls mean that if I leave for three weeks, when I get back I have 15 messages on my machine.

702 is a Nevada area code, and calling back identifies the company or person as “RMA”. After a few weeks of calls, I finally broke down, called the 1-800 number, and asked them to remove me from the list. I also asked questions about the company, but the woman on the other end would not cooperate.

Anyway, I just filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, which I’m sure will do nothing. What would be better is if the thousands of you who check this site all gave that 1-800 number a call (with caller ID blocked, of course :) and stayed on the phone as long as possible. If I can’t make them stop calling, we can at least have conversations with them on their dime. :)

| Oakland, CA | link | trackback | May 24, 2005 15:17:06
  • http://www.myhomeoffice.org/ Mike Strock

    Sounds like a collection agency to me.

  • echeng

    mike — interesting. they did say they were looking for someone with a different name than mine.

  • steve

    I just got this for the first time today. interesting. do you know anymore about it and is there anything I can do to block the number?

  • echeng

    I called them and asked them to remove my name. The calls stopped.

  • jaime

    I’v been getting a call from that number every day for the past week. I just did a google search and found this forum.
    When the call me, they just hang up. It’s annoying.

  • Gene

    What I have been doing is calling the 702-260-5955 number and leaving long messages. Finally, the mailbox is full and can not accept any more messages. Let’s all call that number and keep the mailbox full.

  • guest

    They also have an 866-262-3009

  • http://www.carrel.org/ wac

    FYI, blocking “Caller ID” is not sufficient to keep people at 800/888/877/866 numbers from knowing who is calling. Your line information is also transmitted via ANI. See the wikipedia entry for ANI at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANI especially the “Privacy note” toward the bottom.

    My own experience is that these are collection agencies and they’ll stop calling once you tell them to… that is until the collection rights are sold to a new collection agency and then those people start calling. Rinse, repeat.

  • Marcelle

    I’m getting the same company calling saying “call Ms. Matthews at 1 800 408-0615″. I just get silence when I call that number. That is making me angry because I can’t even tell them not to call me anymore.

  • gener

    Lately I have been calling and playing classical music to jam up that voice mail. Today I left many minutes of Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite.

  • opie

    same thing for me, looked for the number on here..well, anyways..same lady, mrs. mathews but i know a collection agency is callig me because i owe aol 120 bucks. i don’t remember having aol :\

  • gener

    I received a letter from the Nevada Atty. General’s Office suggesting that complants be filed with the Financial Institutions Division, which licenses and regulates collection agencies in Nevada: FID, 2501 E. Sahara, Suite 300, Las Vegas NV 89104 or Nevada Consumer Affairs Division, 1850 E. Sahara, Suite 101, Las Vegas NV 89104, (702) 486-7335. Or they can be “linked” at http://www.state.nv.us Let’s ALL do it. Gene

  • bruiserdadog

    I got the same calls to my cell phone – I also logged a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. I will follow up tomarrow with local police. I fill file a staulking complaint

  • http://www.everythinginternet.com/faster Everything Internet

    I just got a call from 1800 408 0615 saying to please call Liz Mathews, when I called the number it said the business office is now close!

    I think that these constant calls are from a company that uses our lines to make calls.

    Let me try and explain. Their system dials our number to see if the number rings true…then it holds onto our number and usese it as the number they are calling from when they make illegal solicitation calls!

    The reason I believe this is, I called one of the places that called me to sell me something, because their number was on my caller ID. When I renturned the call to that number, it was actually the offce of General Mills the cereal company! They told me how they have been innundated with calls!

    I don’t know how to stop it… and what really irritates me is that they are calling on my cell-phone. So, essentially I am paying for them to solicite me!!!

  • guest

    I get the Ms. Matthews call also. I also constantly get mail from RMA which is a collection agency for AOL. It is called Risk Management Alternatives. They want their $$ from me. Just thought it would help some people out.

  • chandler

    that is really obnoxious, i just got my first call… hope they don’t continue

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