How telemarketers are getting around the national no-call list

[scottcsmith]

Watch out in your web surfing! Through some innocent clicks you may inadvertently end up at some web site that tracks your movement and then the company calls you up -- which is a way around the national "do not call" registry. One of the exceptions to the registry is that a company you've dealt with in the past can call you. I just got a call from a pushy tele-marketer who claims I visited his company's web site. I didn't, but it's entirely possible that a pop-up or some other method launched my browser to the web site of that company -- and to them, I was visiting the site, looking for information, and thus a "customer" in their minds.

[Mrs. Venation]

1. Caller ID Is One Answer

Bertha and I simply do not answer the phone when the caller has blocked the originating number.