Telemarketers Will Stop Bothering The Dead For $1

from the how-sweet-of-them dept

Perhaps telemarketers are really feeling the pinch since the instigation of so many do not call lists. First, they try to get state do-not-call laws pre-empted by a single federal rule, and now, they've come up with a great idea to generate some revenues: charge people a dollar to have their deceased loved ones' names removed from calling lists. See, the Direct Marketing Association really are a sweet bunch of people, since they recognize "how emotionally and logistically difficult the process of handling someone's final affairs can be. Our goal with the creation of the list is to assist those who are managing this process." And that dollar charge? It's for "credit card verification" so they can stop "fraud" of the system. Funny, you'd think telemarketers would be glad to know when somebody on their list died so they wouldn't have to waste resources trying to call them, and as far as fraud, it's hard to see anybody really getting too upset if somebody told telemarketers they were dead. Dinner interruptions may be annoying, but it's moves like this that illustrate why nobody likes telemarketers.

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