How Can I Find Out More About A Telemarketer's Phone Number?
Greg Wilson
June 01, 2008
Telemarketing calls are very frustrating, especially when the same telemarketer continues to call and won´t take "no" for an answer. What can you do to make the calls stop? There are different things you can try, but before you take action against a telemarketer, it´s not a bad idea to first see if you can find out more information on a telemarketing firm via their phone number.
Visit a site that provides a reverse phone lookup service, and enter the 10-digit number into the query box provided. Hopefully you will be provided with the name of the company and their location. If no results are returned, this could mean that the number is unlisted, is not included in the database of the reverse lookup you are using, or the number may be fake. To be sure, try searching for the number on different reverse phone search websites, and even consider paying a small fee to see if a pay-search will be more successful in helping you find the information you are after.
Why should you bother looking up information on a telemarketer? Because you shouldn´t let them invade your privacy. As a telephone consumer you have rights, and in certain circumstances – probably more situations than you realize - telemarketers are not allowed to phone you. For instance, if a telemarketer calls you before 8am or after 9pm, or if they call you when you have requested them to stop, they are breaking the law and can face a fine if you file a complaint.
You will find that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) will provide you with all of the knowledge you need to know about the rules telemarketing companies must follow. Therefore, once you know that a telemarketer has violated your rights, you can proceed to take the necessary steps to make the calls to stop. This may include:
Filing an official complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or the Federal Trade Commission´s (FTC) National Do Not Call Registry.
Complain publicly by visiting a calling complaints site and post all of the information you can about the telemarketing call you received to warn others about this individual or company. In addition, you may also discover that other phone consumers have also filed complaints against this telemarketer.
Make the telemarketer hang up on you if they don´t take the hint to stop calling you. It´s time to throw phone etiquette out the window, and give a telemarketer a taste of their own medicine by…
talking gibberish to them
pretending you don´t understand what they are saying
wasting their time by pretending to be interested and then hanging up on them
putting them on permanent hold
pretend to sell them something
etc.
There are different ways you can stop unwanted telemarketer calls, but it always helps to find out more about the irritating telemarketing firm first by conducting a reverse phone lookup on their number.
Visit a site that provides a reverse phone lookup service, and enter the 10-digit number into the query box provided. Hopefully you will be provided with the name of the company and their location. If no results are returned, this could mean that the number is unlisted, is not included in the database of the reverse lookup you are using, or the number may be fake. To be sure, try searching for the number on different reverse phone search websites, and even consider paying a small fee to see if a pay-search will be more successful in helping you find the information you are after.
Why should you bother looking up information on a telemarketer? Because you shouldn´t let them invade your privacy. As a telephone consumer you have rights, and in certain circumstances – probably more situations than you realize - telemarketers are not allowed to phone you. For instance, if a telemarketer calls you before 8am or after 9pm, or if they call you when you have requested them to stop, they are breaking the law and can face a fine if you file a complaint.
You will find that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) will provide you with all of the knowledge you need to know about the rules telemarketing companies must follow. Therefore, once you know that a telemarketer has violated your rights, you can proceed to take the necessary steps to make the calls to stop. This may include:
Filing an official complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or the Federal Trade Commission´s (FTC) National Do Not Call Registry.
Complain publicly by visiting a calling complaints site and post all of the information you can about the telemarketing call you received to warn others about this individual or company. In addition, you may also discover that other phone consumers have also filed complaints against this telemarketer.
Make the telemarketer hang up on you if they don´t take the hint to stop calling you. It´s time to throw phone etiquette out the window, and give a telemarketer a taste of their own medicine by…
talking gibberish to them
pretending you don´t understand what they are saying
wasting their time by pretending to be interested and then hanging up on them
putting them on permanent hold
pretend to sell them something
etc.
There are different ways you can stop unwanted telemarketer calls, but it always helps to find out more about the irritating telemarketing firm first by conducting a reverse phone lookup on their number.
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