I receive frequent annoying scam calls. I was even more bothered to find out that in order to block these people from their repeated call, Cox wishes to charge me additional money. This should be free. Cox is complicit in this by trying to make money off of people who just want the nuisance callers to leave to them alone. One number, 570-983-3206, called me 18 times in the course of August and September. We have been called four times in the last four months from 949-896-5565, who claim to be contractors looking for work. We have told them not to call back, but they persist.
I was told that it would cost me an additional five dollars a month to be able to block these callers. Cox should not be charging money to protect me from these annoying, persistent, and illegal calls. If the phone carriers made it easy and free to block these calls, phone scammers would be in trouble. Think of boiler rooms of people listening to busy signals all day.
If the phone companies aren't willing to offer this, then perhaps Washington needs to better regulate the phone companies. I know that I will be contacting my representatives in Washington, the FTC, and the FCC on this matter. Cox should stop making life easy for phone scammers and side with their customers.
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Monday, November 3, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Do Not Call Is Not Working
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| Still getting unwanted sales calls? Well, yeah. |
According to the FTC, they’ve settled 105 in the last ten years. Oh, goody, that’s 10 a year. I think I’ve filed that many complaints this year alone. They’ve collected $118 million in civil penalties, and there has been a further $737 million in what they call “other recovery.” There were a further 34 cases for robocalls, which had $51 million in civil penalties and $198 million in that “other recovery” category.[1]
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