Just got off the phone with a spam company

[pilotdave 0]

Ahhh that was fun. Been getting tons of spam from the same company for the last few days. Finally decided to do something about it. Did a little research (gotta love whois lookups) and found a phone number for the parent company of the people spamming me. So I chatted with their operator, who was actually very friendly. I wanted to talk to the guy who actually registered the domain name, but she knew instantly that he was already on the phone. After making sure I was removed from their databases, I asked her what it's like to work for a spam company. Told her I was really just curious. She got very defensive for some reason and told me they don't spam, they send out permission-based direct marketing. I asked who gave them permission to send me spam. She asked if I had used travelocity or any other travel website recently, and checked the box saying I want to receive email. I said no, and asked if I could have a list of companies that work with them. She asked why I want that, and I told her I don't want to deal with any company that would work with a company like theirs. She didn't seem to like that and told me she can't give me information about their customers.

Ahh talking with spammers is almost as fun as conference calls with telemarketers.

Dave

[PhillyKev 0]

I like getting their fax number, rolling up a piece of black paper and taping the ends and sending it to them for an hour or two.

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

I know someone that works for a "direct-marketing" company as well. They are responsible for pop-up and pop-under ads. I've had quite a few arguments with him over the last year, and he has the same attitude as the girl on the phone. Basically you are wasting your breath with this type.

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[jumper03 0]

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I like getting their fax number, rolling up a piece of black paper and taping the ends and sending it to them for an hour or two.

That's about like mailing the bricks back with postage paid envelopes!!

Gotta try that someday.

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[Slappie 9]

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I like getting their fax number, rolling up a piece of black paper and taping the ends and sending it to them for an hour or two.

That was a very evil tactic with the old fax machines. ONly thing it does now is tie up the line. With the older machines it would tie up the line and waste their paper.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[PhillyKev 0]

And these days it ties up the line, AND uses up the memory. So even after you stop transmitting, they can't receive any faxes until they clear it.

[pilotdave 0]

My fax number sends faxes right to my email. I guess you could probably fill my email box pretty easily. Eh, I don't like getting work emails anyway so it wouldn't be so bad.
Dave