[Scan-DC] New telemarketer tool trumps TeleZapper

Marcel [email protected]
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:55:47 -0500


What a mess.............

Just to keep it scanner related one of the companies being sued below is an SMR company-

Nexthell communications

Telephone Solicitors Face Lawsuits in Oklahoma

http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=query_displaynews&q=NEXTEL&so=&dc=&ro=&ed=&sd=&s=121&boldtext=NEXTEL&sym=&doc_id=NR200303011180.3_8c6900067db87d5c

John Bacon wrote:

> Wow this company seems to be on top of things. Maybe I should work for them
> since they will be making the $$.. I think companies like this should have
> to follow guidelines also. They said they monitor line signals to tell if
> it's a fake or not. Isn't that "Phone Tapping". I think the phone company
> should be on top also cause these computers could be programmed to HACK
> there computers.
> So in other words it should be BANNED
>
> JOHN - A Massachusetts Resident
>
> (CUT AND PASTE)
> > Massachusetts-based Castel has been mailing brochures to telemarketers and
> > other prospective customers touting the software, which also includes a
> feature
> > that lets salesmen transmit any phone number or text message to residents'
> > caller ID displays.
> >
> > Dodging privacy services
> >
> > That second component allows DirectQuest to dodge such phone company
> > privacy services as SBC's Privacy Manager and Sprint's Privacy ID, both of
> > which reject calls that don't provide caller ID information.
> (END OF CUT AND PASTE)
>
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