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Re: Dammed Telemarketers

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From: Al Smith
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:07
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On 6/5/2009 1:29 PM, harnish@hfx.eastlink.ca wrote:
> On Jun 5, 12:13 pm, "The Gilkies" <saturn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi
>> six calls yesterday on our business phone.
>> four last evening at home
>> started today on the business phone again.
>> dammed cardholder services.wans to consolodate all you debt.
>> all from same # in the usa.
>> tried opting out,yelled at csr after,got hung up on teice.
>> starting to irritate me.
>> jeff
> 
> They have been iritating us a bit too and I say thank goodness for
> call display.  I call screen anything that comes up as a private
> number or anything unfamiliar with a long distance number that
> basically doesn't come from the area codes in Atlantic Canada.  If it
> is something important, they'll leave me a voice mail.


They should long ago have been made illegal. Why haven't our various 
governments acted to make such calls illegal?

-Al-
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Subject: Re: Dammed Telemarketers
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:07:40 -0400
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