Dont Call US Registry Violation

Just don't pick up if you don't recognize the number. Unfortunately there is not much you can do about these crooks.

ROYinTO wrote: ↑Personally I think we need to start a petition the CRTC to regulate a way to report all these guys that telemarket in violation of the rules and fake their caller ID's.

We can call it the 38 Special based on the popular ammo that used by police departments for many years.

Got a call from a telmarketer? Hang up and dial *38 or *FU and the telco's have to record that the last call was a telemarketer. They can track the source and block incoming calls to their networks. Get ten 38 Specials in a day and your originating number gets blocked and reported to Bell who is contracted to control the Do Not Call system.

What a great idea.

We should start a petition about this. Have everyone on red flag email their mp.

Are you sure they are 'real' phone calls? I get scam calls about winning a cruise and there is a Marriott one too that people have reported.

I get these calls frequently and they are spoofed Toronto numbers. Often the first 3 digits are the same as mine but the calls aren't really coming from that number.

I've also had people call me asking why I called them - I didn't but someone spoofed my number.

I think it is very possible that these aren't legitimate calls and they aren't actually coming from the number that appears on the caller id.

theyre coming from india and paki stan, theyre illegal, and the numbers are spoofed, there is nothing we can do here to block it? get it?

The Do Not Call registry and it's applicable laws only apply to calls originating in Canada and businesses in Canada. Canadian law does not apply to Pakistan or wherever so technically those calls are not illegal and nothing can be done about them. Simply hang up as soon as you get such a call and continue to do so every time they call back. Eventually they will just move on and leave you alone.

ROYinTO wrote: ↑Not sure I agree with that, check out this link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-fi ... -1.1142345
To quote: "The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission took legal action Wednesday against two Indian companies for breaking Canada’s telemarketing rules.

What the article fails to point out is that these companies do not appear to have a physical presence in Canada. The fines are unenforceable.

ROYinTO wrote: ↑FWIW The CRTC is also going after the local companies that use offshore telelmarketers.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/crtc-iss ... -1.2295282
" TORONTO -- Nine companies linked to illegal telemarketing calls about duct cleaning services have been named and shamed by the CRTC.
The CRTC found the companies were using foreign call centres for their telemarketing, which were not respecting the national do not call list."

In this case the offending companies who hired the telemarketers are located in Canada and any fines and other actions are enforceable.

I have been getting those calls as well but mostly on my home phone. I agree with the advice when it is a cell phone and you don't recognize the number DON'T answer if you just have a pay as you go type plan. I know it can be hard for some people to NOT answer a phone but I have my cell phone for MY convenience not so I can be harassed by people calling me LOL.

That being said I was out of town last Friday though and expecting a call from people I was picking up, as I was driving, when my phone rang I just handed the phone to my passenger who answered. They stayed on the line because they couldn't hear at first and when they finally caught on that it was those dirts with the Mariott scam, they hung up. The phone rang about 3 minutes later and I told my passenger answer it, it is time for the people I am expecting to call. It was the scammers again, but my passenger stayed on for about 2 minutes trying to hear when they were saying so in 2 calls there went 5.50 in LONG DISTANCE charges, because they were spoofing a number from my hometown.... I was livid.

I got my revenge today though when Mariott called me at home. I hit the number to hear the scam and I waited until they came on.... I said to whom am I speaking, they had already said, but I asked again... I then said good and your last name too? Then I said I will also need the name of your supervisor so I can award them too. Award what? Get them on the line if you can, they couldn't so I said too bad your supervisor is going to be mad the missed this. ARE YOU READY? OK.... 10 second blast of the air horn I keep for telemarketers. Then I politely said PLEASE NEVER call this number again thanks, or you will win the prize again...

I really can't believe that Bell/Rogers can't stamp out this kind of crap though, they HAVE to be making a fair bit of money off the calls, so they aren't doing anything about it. LOL