These idiots made the "mistake" of contacting me after 10 pm with a telemarketing call.
The caller told me she was calling from Sydney, Australia when I pressed her for her location. She said I was being invited to a grand opening of MacArthur Blvd. I asked her where that was and she replied Newport. Well, since I live in CONNECTICUT I was curious since I had not heard of any place by that name and there is no MacArthur Blvd in Newport, RI.
She finally figured out that it was in Newport Beach, CA.
When I informed her she was violating the state telemarketing laws by calling me she pretended the connection was breaking up and hung up.
Using caller ID i called back 949-374-5122 and spoke to someone who sounded like the same person. I asked to speak to a manager and after quite a bit of threatening I was connected to Mark Rowntree.
Mark claimed to be located in the Phillipines and was suprised when I asked for airfare to visit the "Grand Opening".
He was even more suprised to learn I was several thousand miles from CA.
He appologized for a mistake in dialing but I let him know that the caller knew my name and had oviously called correctly.
He then said I must have been in CA - well 25 years ago before cell phones I had visited but that could not have led to them getting my cell phone and name.
I'm sure they ripped it off something I attached information to but the real issue is the calling after hours.
Since I hate companies that do this, I plan to contact CT officials and seek restitution. I also plan to do my own telemarketing to then at their offices 949-587-2400. A few hundred phone calls to various people in their organization should be great fun. I will surely inform them that the phone calls are retaliation and will stop when I feel compensated for thier violation of the law.
From what I read, NO ONE should get involved with them unless you just want to bother them.
Feel free to call them and bother them a bit, ask all kinds of great, probing questions and drive them nuts.
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