 Telemarketers face crackdown MONTREAL - Calling it the biggest crackdown of its kind in the country, the Competition Bureau of Canada swept down Tuesday on some 50 businesses and individuals believed to be involved in illegal telemarketing schemesCommentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Has anyone else notice a severe lack of 'Car Warranty' calls since they did that big takedown in the states?
It doesn't seem like they're illegal, but there's this, which was from 2004:
Some telemarketing organizations use automatic dialers to place telephone calls or send faxes. If a telemarketing agent is not available when the call is answered, then a "dead air" or hang-up call is the result. The CRTC's new rules say that
# telemarketers who use Predictive Dialing Devices must not abandon more than five percent of their calls per month, and must keep records of evidence to show that they have complied with this rule.
Now, I always hang up whenever I don't hear someone on the other end immediately, because I know it'll be one of those dialers. Knowing that I'm screwing up their 'hang up call' percentage is good enough reason to not just ignore those calls from unfamiliar numbers