web watch 2006 - fight back against telemarketers
We've all been there. We're eating supper, washing the dog or watching Mythbusters when the phone rings. We answer the call thinking it's someone important but "Drats!" it's another annoying telemarketer.
What do you do? Hang up, listening politely and say no, buy into the pitch feeling guilty? Now there's another option (and a way to fight back).
Using the telemarketer's own trick – a script – you can turn the tables on your evening's invader. Just follow the counter-script at Martijn Engelbregt's site and you'll soon have the cretinous callers hanging up on you!
And no matter who's calling, you can probably counter the telemarketer in their own language. Engelbregt's site provides the counter-script in Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Belgian, Finnish, Italian, Estonian, French and German. Bye bye.
Factoid: the man who invented random digit dialing, Joseph Waksberg, died January 10th, 2006.
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