I heard that a man has been suing telemarketers and has made thousands doing this. If I have to put up with them, I want to be making money at it, too. What do you know about this?
I looked into this for you — and for the rest of us who have had it up to here with those annoying calls — and there appears to be something to it, but it might not be as simple and straightforward as it sounds. (What ever is?)
First you should be sure that your phones are on the federal Do-Not-call list. Once you have logged on to that site and registered your phone numbers, the robocallers get a 30-day grace period before they have to stop calling you. Then you must acquire a way to prove that the calls are coming frequently enough from any single caller to be considered a nuisance by a court which may or may not agree with you about the level at which majorly annoying kicks in.
If you have an iPhone, an app is available to help you determine the address of each caller, thus aiding in the proving of the calls, but many of the calls are scam calls originating from other countries. Many of those calls are being what is referred to as “bounced,” which makes them appear to be coming from somewhere else, often a location near you. A woman I know, and myself have both received bounced calls showing that they were coming from our own phones! Personally, I would…
