For many, telemarketing calls are simply a part of life. However, many desire to get rid of such annoying callers, but don't know the first vital steps. No matter where a telemarketing call is coming from, doing your part to find out this and other basic information using a reverse phone lookup is the first step to getting rid of telemarketers. Knowledge is power, and you can use this power to help protect yourself from unsolicited telemarketing calls.
When you receive a telemarketing call, the first thing to do if you want to the calls to stop is to request to be added to their Do-Not-Call registry. Of course, once you have gotten one telemarketing call to a number, this is a big sign that other companies probably have your information too, and that you will need to do a little more to make sure that you have done your part. Luckily, there is a national Do-Not-Call registry that covers most telemarketers, to which you can request to be added.
Very often, of course, a Do-Not-Call registry will not completely silence the phone, and you will need a little more information about the telemarketing calls before you can stop them. If you get a telemarketer on the phone, ask them for a customer service number; they are required to give you this information, and using a reverse phone lookup, you can easily link this number to a company and address. A number recorded by Caller ID is probably registered to a computer, but in many cases reverse phone lookups can find these kind of numbers as well. By simply entering your information in the search field, you can find out what kind of device was used to make the call and the name of the company and mailing address to which the number is registered.
If you want to take any further steps to assure that you won't be receiving any more telemarketing calls for awhile, you will need to find out more about a telemarketer. There are a lot of options out there, but luckily there are websites that combine the services of reverse phone lookups, Do-Not-Call registries and caller complaint logs. In the case of particularly annoying telemarketing calls that you suspect are unethical, you can use these resources to find out exactly what telemarketers can get away with in the first place and even officially report those that break the rules.
Dwayne is an old consumer advocate who has way too much time on his hands (the wife says) so he rants to his audience on Ezine Articles.
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