How to Piss-off Junk Mail Companies

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-01-19 06:17pm

http://maddox.xmission.com/junk_the_junk.html

LOL, I think I'll have to try this.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-19 06:38pm

*laughs*
*looks again*
*laughs some more*
*goes to post some mail....*

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-01-19 06:41pm

Yeah, a professor once showed the class how he does just that.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-01-19 07:05pm

LOL!

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2003-01-19 07:13pm

That's mean. That's also why I like it!

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-01-19 07:15pm

I told my boyfriend and we immediately agreed to ratify that as a new House Policy. W00T! Take THAT you fucking Credit Card Mafia!

David · Post by **David** » 2003-01-19 08:54pm

I'm sticking this because I'm tired of getting mail/ e-mail with crap in it. You would think these companies would take a hint and quit sending me shit, after all I am a broke college student, but noooooooo. BTW folks, when telemarketers call your house, don't just hang up, tell them to take you off their calling list, they have to by law.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-01-19 09:48pm

Methinks I will be doing this....

Btw, about telemarketers (AKA dinner-wreckers) tell them to take your number out of the computer system, and ask that they verify it. By law they have to, and it shuts down their entire call center for at least an hour while they purge your number out of the system.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-19 09:49pm

David wrote:I'm sticking this because I'm tired of getting mail/ e-mail with crap in it. You would think these companies would take a hint and quit sending me shit, after all I am a broke college student, but noooooooo. BTW folks, when telemarketers call your house, don't just hang up, tell them to take you off their calling list, they have to by law.

Oh...I just pretend to be a JW. They tend not to call again after that

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HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-19 09:52pm

My friends' dad has had lots of fun with telemarketers. He once ordered 40 windows because his all had bullet holes in them, only to cancel at the last minute.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-01-19 10:46pm

hehe, if you really want to have fun with telemarketers, act like a damn drunk hick.

That gets em off the line faster than any method. Especially if you yell alot.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-01-19 10:48pm

Ehh, it doesn't provide any illegal but not neccisarily tracable things to do to get back at them, although the method is cool, it could be a lot funnier as an article if it include things you could do to them that are illegal. Like the stuff in the Avenger's Handbook, halarious read.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-01-19 11:46pm

Read this guys site, he seems to actually have *gasp* common sense!

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-01-19 11:49pm

David wrote:Read this guys site, he seems to actually have *gasp* common sense!

Something of a rare commidity these days.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-01-19 11:58pm

The Dark wrote:
David wrote:I'm sticking this because I'm tired of getting mail/ e-mail with crap in it. You would think these companies would take a hint and quit sending me shit, after all I am a broke college student, but noooooooo. BTW folks, when telemarketers call your house, don't just hang up, tell them to take you off their calling list, they have to by law.
Oh...I just pretend to be a JW. They tend not to call again after that .

Better yet pretend to be insane and suicidal.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-20 01:13am

Stormbringer wrote:
The Dark wrote:
David wrote:I'm sticking this because I'm tired of getting mail/ e-mail with crap in it. You would think these companies would take a hint and quit sending me shit, after all I am a broke college student, but noooooooo. BTW folks, when telemarketers call your house, don't just hang up, tell them to take you off their calling list, they have to by law.
Oh...I just pretend to be a JW. They tend not to call again after that .
Better yet pretend to be insane and suicidal.

Tha't gets followup calls from mental health professionals. JWs are considered harmless enough kooks that the telemarketers don't call the men in white coats, but annoying enough that they don't call back.

Isil`Zha · Post by **Isil`Zha** » 2003-01-20 02:43am

errr, I posted this before in another thread a few days ago here.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-01-20 08:36am

Stormbringer wrote:
The Dark wrote:
David wrote:I'm sticking this because I'm tired of getting mail/ e-mail with crap in it. You would think these companies would take a hint and quit sending me shit, after all I am a broke college student, but noooooooo. BTW folks, when telemarketers call your house, don't just hang up, tell them to take you off their calling list, they have to by law.
Oh...I just pretend to be a JW. They tend not to call again after that .
Better yet pretend to be insane and suicidal.

Or moan and pant between sentences to give the impression of having a wank or a menage a trois whilst on the phone. The telemarketer may actually use the phrase "Did I catch you at a bad time?" for once. A rare event indeed.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-01-20 09:31am

Here's a fucked up line:

"Consider it an added bonus for your efforts to frustrate the mafia-like credit card companies. They'll do anything short of giving you head to get you to join, and I'm sure they haven't thrown out that idea entirely (Star Trek fans rejoice). "

LOL!!!

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-01-20 09:33am

Saddly as I never get Coupons this offer is useless to me(And since I'm a memeber of the Miltary I get few Credit Card offers as well. Somthing about dead people don't pay ther bills

)

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-01-20 11:13am

David wrote:BTW folks, when telemarketers call your house, don't just hang up, tell them to take you off their calling list, they have to by law.

Is that a federal law or a state law?

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-01-20 11:47am

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:
David wrote:BTW folks, when telemarketers call your house, don't just hang up, tell them to take you off their calling list, they have to by law.
Is that a federal law or a state law?

I think it might be federal law, otherwise it would be fairly useless.

As a side note, Wired put forward an intresting method of stopping calls. Whenever you call a phone number that doesn't exist, you get a three tone beep, then the message saying that this number does not exist. IF you start screening yuour calls, and have the middle tone at the start of your answering machine, Telemarketing computers automatically remove you from their calling lists, since, obviously, the numberis disconnected.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-01-20 05:53pm

Maddox's site is one of the oldest of the internet, and has been discussed before here. It's great! The guy is brutally honest and somewhat of an asshole, you have got to like him! If you haven't yet, read the entire site (it's huge, so read a bit every day)

BUT READ IT!

edit: a funny fact:

maddox wrote:27938 cowards have sent me hate mail.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2003-01-20 05:58pm

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:
David wrote:BTW folks, when telemarketers call your house, don't just hang up, tell them to take you off their calling list, they have to by law.
Is that a federal law or a state law?

Federal law. The actual term is the "do not call list." You request to beplaced on that company's "Do Not Call" list and if they call you within the next year then they can be fined something like $15k. now there are two caveats to this obvioulsy:

1) You need to know which company is calling you (Mastercard doesn't do their own dirty work so you need to keep track of which telemarketing firm is contacting you)
2) If you put yourself onto a list make sure you note WHO the company is and WHEN you were placed on the list. If they violate it then make sure you call up the FCC and get them fined.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-01-20 07:30pm

Just use the three tone sound for a disconnected call and the automated systems will not call you again.

And for a side note, automated call systems are illegal too...