It was a dark and stormy night when Choreboy
> wrote:
>> March 9, somebody from 877 467 3277 called. I answered on the second
>> ring and they hung up. They did it again March 19 and March 29.
> Large telemarketing operations sometimes use dialers that call
> numbers, and when there is an answer shunt the call to an available
> human telemarketer. If all the telemarketers are busy (on the phone,
> on break, whatever), you get a few seconds of dead air, then it hangs > up.
> This is an efficient use of the (probably minimum-wage) telemarketers,
> as they don't waste time dialing, waiting while it rings, getting
> answering machines, etc. The efficiency, of course, comes at the
> expense of the victims like you.
This has been going on for quite a few years, and generated so many complaints that the Oklahoma Legislature passed a law forbidding the practice.
It has, of course, been no more effective than laws or regulations calling with only a recorded message.
Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com