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Once when my aunt was staying with us she picked up the phone and pretended to be a lonely old lady whose husband had just died and needed someone to talk to. She kept the person on the phone for about 10 minutes while the rest of us were dying of laughter.

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Once I got a call from the "fraternal order of police" asking for Thanksgiving donations so they could put meal baskets together for the needy. Well this was a time that I was seriously down and out, I said "this is great!! I have two small children, their dad just left us, I am working temp jobs until a permanent one comes available, I could really use one of these baskets! Can I sign up for one with you? He said he was only taking donations. I said, "OK, well who can I call to sign up for this basket..." He has no idea! He apologized and hung up. I was totally shocked...now I was MUCH younger and niave then...I sincerely wanted to take advantage of this charity and couldn't even find out how. As a matter of fact, I've never seen a place where I could take advantage of the "collections for the needy"! I don't mind telemarketing calls...but I HATE donation calls!! I always ask how much of my money actually goes to the cause they are collecting for. If it's less than 80%, it's not a charity that gets my money!

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I NEVER give to a charity that calls me. 99% of them are scams, and you never see the money. NEVER trust the police and fireman donations. You want to donate to the police of firemen? Call them yourself and ask where to show up. If you give money over the phone to someone who called your house i can bet you that none of it is seen by the people who need it.

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we have caller id that comes up on our tv. since it is ALWAYS on, if the phone rings, i look at the screen, and if i do not know the number i do not answer.

How do you do this? Is that through vonage or something? That sounds really cool.

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we have Brighthouse cable, and our phone, internet and cable are all bundled into one. i can also pay my bill through the tv. its really great! I pay 200 bucks a month and i have high speed cable internet, cable phone with no long distance charges, and every channel on cable, including High Def and DVR.

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Sounds awesome. Here in Jax, we are still limited to old Comcast or direct tv.

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Cell phone telemarketing has started recently because before it was actually illegal. With the advent of all of the unlimited calling plans, I guess they decided they didn't care if they were spending the money of people who are not on those plans...

There is a separate DNC list for cell phone numbers.... just google it. I don't know what it is off hand.

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