| Date | Company | Sales Rep | Website | Phone | Comments |
| 7/8/2008 | Crescent Processing | Kayla | crescentprocessing.com | 877-233-3376 | Gee, this company hasn't called me since April! |
| 7/8/2008 | local.com | Daisy | local.com | Refused to give me phone number | |
| 7/8/2008 | Max Professional | Bob | Refused to give me info | Refused to give me info | Was trying to sell me canned air, but refused to give me his company's phone number; was very snotty, said I sounded hoaky |
| 7/8/2008 | local.com | Victor | local.com | Refused to give me phone number | Ooooh! Two calls in 1 day! How special I must be! |
| 7/10/2008 | local.com | Debbie | local.com | Yet another call from local.com | |
| 7/11/2008 | local.com | Unintelligible Indian Name | local.com | Refused to give me phone number | Would not stop talking, even after I asked him to stop 3 times |
| 7/16/2008 | MaxProfessional | Felicia | MaxProfessional.com | Well, at least, unlike Bob, she was pleasant. | |
| 7/16/2008 | Crescent Processing | Simone | CrescentProcessing.com | Refused to give me phone number | Hung up on me when I asked for her company's phone number |
| 7/18/2008 | local.com | Leo Gallagher | local.com | 1-877-784-0805 | This was the first time I was able to get a local.com rep to give me their phone number. |
| 7/21/2008 | U.S. Health | Amber | When I asked Amber for her company's phone number, she was startled. She then decided she did not have the authority to release such critical info, and put me on hold and then hung up on me. | ||
| 7/23/2008 | Crescent Processing | Chris | CrescentProcessing.com | Yet another in an infinite string of calls from Crescent | |
| 7/25/2008 | Landmark | April | Refused to tell me | Refused to tell me | April demanded to know if I accepted credit cards. When I asked for her company's phone number, she hung up on me. |
| 7/28/2008 | zipweb | Erin Gomez | zipweb.com | 1-800-222-5529 | Well, at least they told me who they were before they refused to answer any more questions |
| 7/29/2008 | local.com | Kim Lopez | local.com | 1-877-784-0805 | Apparently, I am destined to get calls from local.com every week for the rest of my life. |
| 7/30/2008 | Crescent Processing | Chris | CrescentProcessing.com | Can you ever get enough calls from Crescent? | |
| 7/31/2008 | MaxProfessional | Felecia | MaxProfessional.com | ||
| 8/1/2008 | Commerce Energy | Angelea | commercenergy.com | 216-453-1979 | Made it sound like she was a rep from my local gas company, but, when pressed, admitted that she was not. Wasn't too sure about her own company's phone number....almost sounded like she was making it up as she went along, or was a child struggling reciting a difficult homework assignment. |
| 8/2/2008 | Crescent Processing | Sylvia | CrescentProcessing.com | Nasty! Refused to give me Crescent's phone number, acted like it was a state secret. | |
| 8/11/2008 | Crescent Processing | Clark | CrescentProcessing.com | Was surprised that Crescent had ever called me before. I asked him to remove me from their list. Yeah, right. | |
| 8/14/2008 | US Health Group | Vincent | refused to tell me; state secret! | 800-950-8032 | Was shocked when I asked for his company's phone number; at first, said there was no phone number, then relented, perhaps making up a number as he went along. Refused to give me a website address, but would not stop talking about whatever gobbledy-gook he was trying to peddle. I think this may be the same US Health that called me on 7/21. |
| 8/19/2008 | Crescent Processing | Sharday | CrescentProcessing.com | Of course, not a week can go by without being hounded by Cresecent, despite their promise to remove me from their list. | |
| 8/20/2008 | Commercial Investigations | Nicki Boxer | Refused to tell me | Nicki was gracious enough to hang up on me when I asked for her company phone number, which certainly cemented our business relationship. | |
| 8/22/2008 | First National Information Network | Alex | Refused to tell me | Ironically, the information such as First National Information Network's phone number, and any contact info, is a state secret; Alex refused to tell me anything about his company. | |
| 9/3/2008 | Diamond Processing | Jasmine | Refused to tell me | When I pressed her, Jasmine admitted that Diamond Processing was really Crescent Processing. As always, she refused to give me a phone number or website. | |
| 9/16/2008 | zipweb | Danni | zipweb.com | 1-800-222-5529 | Well, its been a while since I've been pestered by zipweb. I guess they want to make up for lost time. |
| 9/16/2008 | media3hosting | Memphis Ryan | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Everything you love about telemarketers--wouldn't tell me his company's phone number or what he was calling about; kept insisting on talking to the owner. |
| 9/18/2008 | Diamond Processing | Jackie | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Can a week be complete without a call from Crescent Processing? As always, this telemarketer talked and talked and talked....oblivious to everything including who she was talking to or even what she was saying. |
| 10/6/2008 | Diamond Processing | Regina | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | As always, Diamond/Crescent Processing's phone number is a state secret. |
| 10/13/2008 | Diamond Processing | Kevin | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | |
| 10/16/2008 | Diamond Processing | Devin Bumgartner | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Devin promised (promised!) to take me off Crescent's call-list. As always, he was surprised that Crescent was calling me as often as twice a week since July. |
| 11/3/2008 | Verizon | Georgia | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | A rash of calls lately from Verizon. |
| 11/5/2008 | Verizon | Michael | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | More from Verizon.... |
| 11/7/2008 | Verizon | Milan | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | And yet more from Verizon. |
| 11/8/2008 | Verizon | Tamira | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Can you ever hear enough from Verizon? |
| 11/10/2008 | WServe | Dave | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | A web-design company calls me--a web-design company--and asks me if they can design a website for me. Duh! |
| 12/9/2008 | Atrium--the new name for Crescent | Dave | refused to tell me | 877-233-3376 | My vacation from calls from Crescent lasted all of 2 months. It looks like they changed their name from Crescent to Diamond to (now) Atrium. They are pestering me once again. Of course, I asked them to take me off their list. |
| 12/20/2008 | WServe | Suzanne | refused to tell me | 1-800-910-1970 | Well, I think her name was Suzanne. She could just barely speak English. She clearly thought everything was a joke; when I asked her for info about her company, she said, "You first." When I asked her for her company's website, she said, "You tell me your website first." Ugh. Where do they get these people? |
| 1/5/2009 | Reserve National Insurance | Stephanie Reverra | refused to tell me | 1-800-654-9106 | Actually didn't sound nearly as sub-human as most telemarketers. |
| 1/8/2009 | Medalion | Margaret Leland | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Claimed she was from community outreach, whatever that is, but refused to give me any other info. |
| 1/15/2009 | Zipweb | Macey | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Macey hung up on me as soon as I asked her for Zipweb's phone number, which of course is quite the incentive for me to do business with them. I just did a quick Google search on Zipweb, and found thousands of postings on these scam artists. Try here and here to begin to read about them. |
| 2/19/2009 | Max Professional | Kim Acoste | refused to tell me | blowoff.com | blowoff indeed! Yet another in an infinite string of calls, always beginning with: "You use canned air, right?" It doesn't matter what you say after that, the sales people from Max Professional insist that you must use canned air! |
| 3/13/2009 | riaenjolie | Shane Johnson | riaenjolie.com | 609-606-9900 | Shane, who might have had a pulse, kept insisting he had to talk to the business owner. When asked what it was about, he clarified with "its about a business." To entice me to enquire further, he then hung up on me. |
| 3/17/2009 | Diamond Processing | Ashley | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Apparently Diamond, which had become Crescent and then Atrium, is now back to Diamond. As always, the telemarketer from Diamond refused to give me any info, including their company's phone number or website address. |
| 3/25/2009 | Diamond Processing | Regina | at first refused to tell me, then relented | wasn't sure, thought it might be diamondprocessing.com | Ugh. Regina was snotty and hostile.....then again, I expect no less from my friends at Diamond. |
| 4/3/2009 | NewLink Network | Liz | Tried to sell me tech support. Was stunned when I told her that I provide tech support because she had called--duh!--a computer shop! Nasty! You can see the gazillions of complaints against this company by starting here | ||
| Attention everyone!
Did you know it is somehow perfectly legal for any company to tack charges onto your phone
bill, even if you specifically tell them you do not want their services? Yes! All they have to do, apparently, is call you and if you answer and say anything
then they know they have hit a valid number. They then contact your local telephone company
and can tack charges for non-existent services on to your phone bill.
To avoid getting slammed with unwanted charges on your phone bill, call your local telephone company and ask them to block third-party charges. Once 3rd-party charges are blocked, these bottom-feeders like NewLink cannot arbitrarily tack charges on to your phone bill. I called my telco today and it took less than 5 minutes. Now I have another layer of defense. BTW, when I talked to my phone company, they immediately recognized the NewLink scam, so obviously they have had a lot of complaints about this scum in general and NewLink in particular. Also: Never ever say the word yes when a telemarketer calls. If they have a recording of you saying yes to any question, they can splice the tape together to make it sound like you agreed to buy whatever they are selling. |
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| 4/7/2009 | Diamond Processing | Tanya | My weekly call from Diamond. I have a nice surprise waiting for Diamond.....heh heh heh. Stay tuned. | ||
| 4/7/2009 | Stevens Masters Health Insurance | Shirley Rhoades | I could just barely understand her....I don't think she even knew the name of her own company. First she said Master, then said Masters. | ||
| 4/15/2009 | Zipweb | Abot Cruz | 1-800-510-6061 | zipweb.com | We have already discussed the sleazy tactics of zipweb. I tortured this sales rep a little by asking him how he felt about working for a company with so many complaints against it. |
| 4/17/2009 | Zipweb | John Rodrigues | 1-800-510-6061 | zipweb.com | I should have mentioned that zipweb is now trying to camoflage itself by claiming it is now Local Connect Service. When I asked if Local Connect had a website, he told me it was zipweb.com. When I then mentioned the zipweb scam, he hung up on me. Look here and here for more info on the zipweb scam. Also, Mark Cave, (Physical address is 16133 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA 91436 Phone#s are (800) 222-5529 or (866) 586-3900) who is the owner of this scumbag company, has been sued and has had numerous complaints against him by the BBB |
| 5/1/2009 | Intrepid | Tonya | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Refused to tell me her company's website or phone number unless I answered questions first! What an incentive to do business! |
| 5/4/2009 | Intrepid | Terry | 1-800-210-9983 | refused to tell me | Terry, and Tonya, both claimed to represent Microsoft, though both refused to provide a website or a physical address. It took a bit of prying but Terry reluctantly yielded a phone number and then refused to answer any other questions. Again, she kept insisting she was from Microsoft! |
| 5/5/2009 | AllState Merchants | Peter Davis | 1-917-257-4742 | allstatemerchants.com | Wanted me to use his company to accept credit cards. Click here and here to see plenty of saucy complaints about this company. Also, here's a juicy complaint from a former Allstate worker |
| 5/6/2009 | Diamond Processing | Deanna | Yet another in an infinite string of calls from Diamond. At least Deanna's southern accent was pleasant to listen to. | ||
| 5/11/2009 | Rumson-Bowling | John Powell | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Wanted to speak to the owner about the "economic stimulus check." When pressed for any further information, he cleverly hung up on me. Aha! this must be the idiot who called me. According to 1 post on this page: This company Rumson, Bolling & Associates is a collection agency that used to go by "Commercial Investigations, Inc." they are under investigation by the Ventura County District Attorney's Office in Ventura California and have changed the company name to "Rumson Bolling & Associates" |
| 5/21/2009 | US Health Group | Donald Cook | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Ya gotta love companies who refuse to give you even something as simple as their phone number, yet expect you to do business with them. For more on the fun this company provides, click here |
| 5/29/2009 | Merchant Industry | Joseph | merchantindustry.com | 718-249-2000 | When I asked Joseph if his company had a phone number, he said simply "Yes." I then had to ask him what that number might be, which he then reluctantly yielded. Here's some saucy comments about this company; here's some more |
| 6/3/2009 | StevensMathews Group or maybe Stevens Matthews group | Albert | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Albert demanded: "Do you have health insurance?" He would not answer any questions; he just kept demanding to know if I had any health insurance. When I asked him his phone number, he hung up on me. |
| 6/4/2009 | Assurance Health Care | Diane | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Another call starting out with the question: "Do you have health insurance?" When I asked Diane for her phone number, she snapped, "Why do you need that?" |
| 6/4/2009 | National Business Association | Reggie | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | When I asked Reggie for his phone number, he muttered, "Oh, shit." Here are some other comments about this illustrious company. I think this is them: National Business Association 12200 Ford Rd Dallas, TX 75234 Phone : (972) 620-3858 |
| 6/11/2009 | AT&T | Don Young | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | I was busy when AT&T called, so I didn't have time to grill this telemonkey; this is the first time I have been pestered by AT&T since I got on the DNC list. |
| 7/23/2009 | National Foundation Advisors | Brenda | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | Recorded message. Another in an infinite number of scams. See here |
| Wow! It has been a couple of months since I have had any telemarketer harrassment of any significance. Even Diamond/Crescent Processing stopped calling me! Do I dare say it is because of this page? | |||||
| 9/4/2009 | Melissa Galinski | refused to tell me | refused to tell me | When she asked to speak to me (by name), I assumed it might be a legitimate customer. When I asked her to repeat her name, she hung up on me. | |
| 9/14/2009 | Border Energy Group | Richard NoLastName | 1-800-919-8021 x438 | Said he was from the Border Energy Group, and yet also claimed to be from my local gas company (Columbia Gas). Columbia said later, via email: Border Energy is not affiliated with Columbia Gas. So Richard, whoever you are, you weren't, um, quite upfront about who you represented, were you? | |
| 9/17/2009 | Gateway Energy Services | Crystal LaFaye | 1-866-921-6478 x1374 | When I came in this morning, there was a rude message from Crystal telling me that I have to call her about my gas account. Her exact words: "I need you to call me." and "You must call me." Ugh. | |
| 9/22/2009 | Hrut Info Tech | Nathan/Robert/Unintelligible Indian Name | www.hrutinfotech.com | 1-732-850-0506 | Three calls today from Hrut. They want to design a website for me. Their website is filled with amateurish grammatical errors and misspelled words, but no matter. Interestingly, there is no way to send them an email. If you want to contact them, you have to call them long-distance (they don't even have an 800 number). |
| 9/29/2009 | Border Energy Group | Richard Molena | 1-800-919-8021 x438 | Yet another call from Border, trying to disguise itself as Columbia Gas--my gas company. Richard said he was "an authorized supplier from Columbia Gas." Um, not quite, Richard. You are not Columbia Gas; this is mis-representation. | |
| 9/29/2009 | Gateway Energy Services | Frank Fletcher | And yet another call from Gateway, demanding that I talk to him about my natural gas account. A little searching found lots of ripe comments about Gateway; click here, or here. | ||
| 9/29/2009 | RealLocalPages.com | Carrie Ann | I didn't have time to torture her when she called, or I would tried to get some more info out of her. Here's some fun comments about this company. | ||
| 10/1/2009 | Atrium Processing | Alexis | Crescentprocessing.com | My reprieve from Diamond/Crescent Processing has ended. Crescent, which has once again changed its name (it is now Atrium), is at it once again. I of course asked them to stop calling me. And of course they never will. By the way, for your entertainment, here are some other comments about Diamond/Crescent Processing. | |
| 10/5/2009 | CRN Magazine | Dennis | Telemarketers always seem to open with this tag line: "We are updating our records of your account." Well, honey, I don't have an account with you. | ||
| 10/6/2009 | American Republic Insurance | refused to tell me | When I asked her what the call was about, she said insurance. Well, duh, lady! | ||
| 10/6/2009 | RealLocalPages.com | Yet another call from RealLocalPages. Here's some fun comments about this company. | |||
| 12/1/2009 | Excel or XL Publications | When I asked this guy who Excel (or XL) was, he laughed at me, like how could I be so stupid that I didn't know his company. When I told him I wasn't interested, he of course just kept talking, so I had to do what feels so good: hang up on him. | |||
| 12/2/2009 | Max Media | 1-800-772-0539 | Cindy Cook | www.vinylgraphics.com | Not a year goes by when someone doesn't try to sell me advertising on the phone-book covers. Never mind that I have never actually seen any of these phone-book covers. Also, just to make me feel more secure about buying an ad here, the website she gave me does not exist. |
| 12/11/2009 | Courtney Cox | I should mention that I have been getting harrassing calls from a rude and abrasive woman named Courtney Cox. She demands to speak to Roberta Emerson; when I tell her there is no such person here, she insists on knowing whether she has called a business or a residence. She refuses to tell me what company she's with or her phone number. Ugh. Where do they find these people? | |||
| And now, dear readers, yet another installment in the endless battle with the cretins
known as Diamond Processing/Crescent Processing/Atrium. When they called me last week (2/11/10), I told them to come on out.
When they asked for my address, I gave them the address of the wastewater treatment plant here in town.
And that poor schmuck sales rep came here to our wastewater treatment plant, and wondered why no one was there to meet him. Then the sales rep called me on his cell. I told him the boss was at the main office (20 miles away) and gave him a fake address in the really nasty section of town. Just to add insult to injury, it was snowing like hell that day, so I'm sure his 2 wasted trips were slow and stressful going. This is about the best revenge I can get on Diamond/Crescent/Atrium. At least I got to waste plenty of their time and resources--watching their sales rep drive all over hell in a snowstorm while I sat here nice and warm and comfy in my shop. |
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| 4/16/2010 | Max Media | 1-800-772-0539 | Cindy Cook | www.vinylgraphics.com | Here we go again with the phone-book covers. Never mind that I have never actually seen any of these phone-book covers. Also, just to make me feel more secure about buying an ad here, the website she gave me does not exist. |
| 4/16/2010 | EBE/Enterprise Business Experts | Lynn | She introduced herself as Lynn from EBE, and when I asked her what EBE was, she was clearly aggravated that she had to talk to me. Then she cleverly hung up on me. | ||
| 4/16/2010 | US Online Listings | Keith | Keith sounded suspiciously like he was from India, but no matter. He wanted to "update" my information. | ||
| 4/20/2010 | Nationwide Compliance | 1-888-861-7118 | Zach | didn't know | Wanted to sell me OSHA posters. Amazingly, wasn't sure if his company had a website, and had to "look up" his own company's phone number. See more here |
| 4/22/2010 | US Online Business Organization or US Online Yellow Pages or what the hell does it even matter? | wouldn't tell me | Jack | wouldn't tell me | First he said he was from US Business Organization, then he said he was from US Online Yellow Pages. When I asked him what his website was, he actually told me that he "was not authorized to tell me that information." You can see more about these folks here and here and here too |
| 5/6/2010 | Pre-recorded message from Joe Allen | I keep getting calls from 419-782-3868 demanding that I call 866-875-3784. Ugh. This is a scam. See here and here | |||
| 5/24/2010 | USYellow Pages | Mozell | USYellow Pages does seem to be a real website with actual useful information. However, having people (who of course can barely speak English) making cold calls demanding to "update records" doesn't exactly polish their image. | ||
| 5/25/2010 | L & J Holdings | Kevin | L & J Holdings apparently has no website and no phone number--at least according to Kevin. Check them out here | ||
| Dear readers....I saw this on a website, and it was so delicious, I couldn't help but post it. Here's how to get some revenge on telemarketers, if you can find their fax number:
...Calling them does no good. So,...I sent them (42) faxes by internet, to their office machine. All with the message: ' Hi! '. ( If you do it, always send on Sunday night. That way their machine will: A) Run out of paper, toner or B) Load up their unit with 'Memory-Full', no other faxes can get through....until someone pushes 'Go'. Then ALL the faxes you sent will get printed out.) ...Secondary way of 'overloading' a telemarketer(s) fax machine: Take (3) pages, anything will do. Tape them end-to-end in a 'loop', while in the fax machine. Dial their number & hit 'Go'. Again, Sunday night is best. If you've never seen 100-200 sheets pumped out on a floor, it's a sight to behold... For any of this, don't use your home phone. Use the Internet, look up a proxy & sign up for an anonymous phone number...Cost? : Zero. And another suggestion: Here is what I like to do to these people. Go to wheresmycellphone.com, enter 813-988-5941, it sends random advertisements. What goes around, comes around! |
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| 6/1/2010 | Farm & Ranch Healthcare | Susan | www.farhc.com | According to Susan, this company has no phone number (even though it is clearly listed on their website). She was offended that I was asking her questions! | |
| 7/27/2010 | Zipweb | www.zipweb.com | More attempts at the old zipweb scam. (Google zipweb scam to get an eyeful) Be careful. When you answer the phone, this company's rep will purposely pretend that he cannot hear you, and will ask, "Is this [name of your company]?" This is a trick to get you to say yes. Once they have a recording of you saying yes, they can splice it together with a recording of them saying something like, "Would you like to sign up for our service, at $49.95 a month?" | ||
| 8/3/2010 | doubleserve | Linda | www.doubleserve.com | I could just barely hear Linda. No matter; all she kept asking was "Is this the owner of the company?" Finally, she told me she was from doubleserve.com, whose website, BTW, is down or doesn't even exist. | |
| 8/11/2010 | Assurant Health | Refused to tell me | Debbie | www.assuranthealth.com | Lots of saucy comments about Assurant, including this survey showing a whopping 70% disapproval rating with their services. You can also look here or here. Here's a USAToday article that does not paint Assurant in very good light; here's another from CBS News. |
| 8/16/2010 | Link It Business Solutions | 605-413-4472 | www.linkitcallcenter.com | Well, they do have a real website, with such goodly Englishes too! Ugh. Why would I want to hire acompany like this? | |
| 8/16/2010 | EZipSearch | Refused to tell me | Debbie | Refused to tell me | Ezipsearch.com is down.....which certainly inspires me to do business with this company. |