{"id":34,"date":"2007-11-03T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2007\/11\/03\/fighting-telemarketers-ask-for-written-copy-of-do-not-call-policy\/"},"modified":"2007-11-03T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T12:46:56","slug":"fighting-telemarketers-ask-for-written-copy-of-do-not-call-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/fighting-telemarketers-ask-for-written-copy-of-do-not-call-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting telemarketers — ask for written copy of “do not call” policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just learned another tool for fighting telemarketers.\u00a0 You can ask for a written copy of their “do not call” policy, and they’re required by law to send it to you.\u00a0 If they don’t, the law provides for “private action” — you can sue in state court for $500, and get 3x if you can argue they willfully ignored you.<\/p>\n

We’re on the Federal Do Not Call list, but we still seem to get a surprising number of calls.\u00a0 For a recent one, I asked the firm if they knew they were calling a DNC number, and the woman on the phone replied, “we don’t have a way to check that list, they only way we know if you’re on that list is if you call us and tell us.”<\/p>\n

I am not making this up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just learned another tool for fighting telemarketers.\u00a0 You can ask for a written copy of their “do not call” policy, and they’re required by law to send it to you.\u00a0 If they don’t, the law provides for “private action” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}