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Re: value of privacy?
I use a variation on the below whenever I get a telemarketer calling --
but instead of asking for the home number, I just ask for their number,
meaning work number. Amazingly, it's very effective. Apparently
outbound telemarketers often don't want to get inbound phone calls.
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| From: <[email protected]>
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| An idea that I have never used, but was suggested to me by my father, goes
| like this:
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| RING RING
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| me: Hello
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| ??: Mr. Peter Baumbach, I am calling from ICK inc. to offer you ..
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| me: Excuse me, but I am busy right now. Could you give me your name and
| home phone number, and I will call you back later?
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| ??: Huh? I can't give you my home number, that's private.
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| me: But you know my name and number. This hardly seems fair.
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