Business Casual: Robo-Calls And Dealers – Georgia Trend

The most irritating of the uninvited “frequent phoners” who clog my voicemail with recorded messages these days are trying to frighten me into home security expenditures.

I’ve lost track of the number of times I have hit “play” on a blinking home answering device, to be greeted by a cheery voice reeling off a statistic on home break-ins and offering a free alarm system to protect me from such happenings.

“Not interested!” is always my response. “I don’t buy stuff from machines.” This is usually shouted in the direction of the phone, even though I am really barking at a robo-caller who has probably gone on to harass 100 others since leaving the message.

This particular “alarmist” is the most persistent, but there are other callers and other messages. Theoretically, you can make them stop if you actually pick up the phone while the message is recording and press the right button; but that hasn’t worked for me.

via Business Casual: Robo-Calls And Dealers – Georgia Trend.