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- From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: COMPUTERIZED TELEMARKETIN
- Message-ID: <7444.2546.uupcb@factory.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 01:05:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis
- Reply-To: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
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-
- This was really written for a BBS in NYC which carries press releases
- but may be of interest here.:
- Update of November 4, 1992, They got me again this afternoon using
- the 540-4400 number.
-
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- =====================
-
- Computer Dialers Got You By The Calls?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- by Raymond B. Normandeau
-
- Normandeau Newswire- No matter where you are from the Nassau border
- to the Hudson River you may have gotten a computer dialed call
- telling you that you may be eligible for a fabulous prize.
-
- If you have not gotten such a call yet, cheer-up, you probably will.
-
- The recorded message is played to you extremely fast. You may have
- won a life-time supply of amphetatmines so that you too may start a
- similar business.
-
- Have you gotten computer dialed calls from "Hopping Harry". Maybe
- calls mentioning Reno Nevada? Have these calls told you to call a
- 540-???? number?
-
- Do you think that maybe the recorded messages failed to tell you the
- price of the call? Did the recording mention "Five-Four-Oh" several
- times? If the recording said "The call is billed at Five-Four-Oh"
- they meant that you are billed #5.40. You WERE paying attention
- weren't you? Those are the bargain calls, the sky is the limit.
-
- Was an address speed spoke so fast that "slow you" missed it?
-
- If you have multiple phone lines and have been lucky enough to be the
- recipient of multiple calls you may like to go pick up your multiple
- prizes in person.
-
- You may have been told to call 540-4400, 540-0100, 540-9900 or
- another 540-nnnn number.
-
- Now ... back to that address. Sneaky us, taped one of those calls and
- played back the address.
-
- Would you like to visit the office where the calls came from?
- Are you Hopping Mad?
- Here is the address:
- Eagleton Group Inc
- 717 East Jericho Turnpike #213
- Huntington Station, NY 11746
-
- If the recording tells you that you must call within "n" minutes and
- you want to get more information by phone without paying a hefty fee
- for the call, then dial 718-830-8781 which is a Queens tie line to
- the Huntington Station address. You will only be charged for a
- regular local call.
-
- So now you have it. You can pay them a visit!
-
- You may have to speak to them real slowly like.
-
- They don't hear as fast as they talk.
-
- However, no matter how slowly you tell them that you want no more
- calls from them, they won't stop calling you -ever.
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