Sneaky Telemarketer

[WinoBlues]

Same.
People know who I am in the first sentence. Voice or text. If I go on a f2f I have all the meds, vitals, and budget before we set a date. I only want to do business with interested people.

 

[theinsuranceman]

Mine doesn't say that. But it's my name. I've never used those number masking thingys. I used the same office number for 17 years. I've had the same cell number for 29 years.

I work 3 states. Or used to. Mostly one state now. But I never used a local number to call across state lines. I want them to know who's calling. If they don't want to talk to me then that's a time saver for me. I don't want to talk to them either. Most times if they don't answer a few times they will call me. They want to know who this JD is and why do you keep calling.

Makes good sense to me. It sounds as if you do not leave a voice message to encourage them to call you back out of curiosity to see who keeps calling their number?

 

[jdeasy]

Makes good sense to me. It sounds as if you do not leave a voice message to encourage them to call you back out of curiosity to see who keeps calling their number?

I do not leave messages as a rule. Sometimes if it's a secure apt building that I cannot just go DK I will leave a message after several calls with no answer.

Or if the lead is in an area I'm not going to be in for a while I may leave a message as a final straw before I toss the lead. Pretty rare to get a callback from a message though. Either way I'm don't with the lead until they mail in the next one.

 

[theinsuranceman]

I do not leave messages as a rule. Sometimes if it's a secure apt building that I cannot just go DK I will leave a message after several calls with no answer.

Or if the lead is in an area I'm not going to be in for a while I may leave a message as a final straw before I toss the lead. Pretty rare to get a callback from a message though. Either way I'm don't with the lead until they mail in the next one.

Yep, they rarely call back after I've left them a message. I believe it's a combination of their curiosity has been satisfied and they are such procrastinators they won't call me back.

 

[somarco]

They claim to be calling from Medicare which is illegal. They are calling numbers on the do not call which is illegal. I do record those and report to medicare but they can't do anything because of the number spoofing

The folks at CMS also don't seem to care about fraud. Look at the handful of cases that get in the news.

Today the CMS police raided a pill mill that had been operating illegally since 2012. They dispensed legal drugs bought with prescriptions written by an illegal clinic next door. A CMS spokesperson estimated the small store filled $15 million in drugs per year.

A CVS across the street fills about $3 million per year in prescription drugs.

Red flags all over the place but it takes years to shut them down.

 

[rousemark]

The ones that tear my wife up are "There has been a $1500 computer purchased on your Amazon account" Have to say she does have a right to be concerned because a few months ago a hacker did purchase a $3K computer on our Amazon account.

 

[Tahoe Ray]

The ones that tear my wife up are "There has been a $1500 computer purchased on your Amazon account" Have to say she does have a right to be concerned because a few months ago a hacker did purchase a $3K computer on our Amazon account.

If this has happened to you before or you're really concerned about it, set up 2FA (2 factor authorization) on those sites. Most of our carriers already force it so it's easy to get used to for consumer sites.

 

[WinoBlues]

Most of our carriers already force it so it's easy to get used to for consumer sites.

I hate it. But I understand the reasoning. Same with the mandatory PW changing every Z days.

 

[Tahoe Ray]

Same with the mandatory PW changing every Z days

And you need to do the reset the one time that you actually need to login quickly for some reason.