{"id":2158,"date":"2009-12-16T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2009-12-16T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T15:26:32","slug":"how-do-you-deal-with-unwanted-automated-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/16\/how-do-you-deal-with-unwanted-automated-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you deal with unwanted automated calls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phone rang a minute ago, with the long-distance ring. When I picked it up, I got a pre-recorded message starting with &#8220;This is an important message about your credit card account. We have attempted to contact you . . .&#8221; I&#8217;m sure most of you in the GTA get similar calls on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>I just hung up, but I wonder if there&#8217;s a better way of dealing with this sort of harassment (it&#8217;s never a company you already have dealings with). If I just left the phone off the hook and let the recorded message play out, would I tie up more of their resources? Might I even get a human waiting on the other end after I didn&#8217;t hang up on the automated portion of the call?<\/p>\n<p>Is the petty revenge (however theoretical it might be) worthwhile? After all, they used misleading information (&#8220;my&#8221; credit card) to try to get my attention. Is it fair play to reverse the gambit and pretend they&#8217;ve got a chance of getting my business?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phone rang a minute ago, with the long-distance ring. When I picked it up, I got a pre-recorded message starting with &#8220;This is an important message about your credit card account. We have attempted to contact you . . .&#8221; I&#8217;m sure most of you in the GTA get similar calls on a regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[194,428],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-fraud","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-yO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}