{"id":1000961,"date":"2007-11-24T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/economics\/2007\/11\/24\/do-not-call-me\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T15:09:36","slug":"do-not-call-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/economics\/2007\/11\/24\/do-not-call-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Call Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a few years of relative peace, the phone spammers seem to have discovered my home number again. I&#8217;ve gotten two calls in the last fifteen minutes, one from Mark Marshall at Ambit Energy (though I&#8217;m certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/2006\/05\/04\/outsourcing-naming-conventions\/\">he lied about his name<\/a>) and one from Daniel of the Police Conference of New York (one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2064483\/\">scummy organizations<\/a> that tries to sell you stickers to put in your car with the implicit promise that this will keep you from getting tickets). There have been quite a few others in the last few weeks too.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect some of these are jumping the gun on the expiry of the federal Do-Not-Call list. The FTC claims:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your registration will not expire. The Federal Trade Commission will not drop any telephone numbers from the National Do Not Call Registry based on a five-year expiration period pending final Congressional or agency action on whether to make registration permanent. Read more about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2007\/10\/dnctestimony.shtm\">http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2007\/10\/dnctestimony.shtm<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donotcall.gov\/complaint\/complaintcheck.aspx\">filing some complaints<\/a>. In fact, I think the next time this happens I&#8217;m going to hold the caller on the phone while I fill out the complaint form. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few years of relative peace, the phone spammers seem to have discovered my home number again. I&#8217;ve gotten two calls in the last fifteen minutes, one from Mark Marshall at Ambit Energy (though I&#8217;m certain he lied about his name) and one from Daniel of the Police Conference of New York (one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}