Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a "no call list" here in Mexico, to prevent unwanted telephone solicitations? I get an average of one a day, day in and day out (with more, now that election season is on), and I'd just as soon not get any.... My provider is TelMex.
When I asked Telmex, they said "no, we dont have such a list"... Today I have had 3 calls already, two from the same damn office... Its all about the elections... Have started to unplug the phone as some(mostly prerecorded) find it amusing to call at 2, 3, 4 and/or 5 am... Haha, we also get the weekly "breather", and when I asked if we could remove our number from being publicly available, they also said "no". The phone is plugged in between 9 am and 9 pm, and we only have it because its required for the internet... Its all fairly annoying, especially when I explain that Im NOT even allowed to vote...:daveandmo:
We have 4 lines at my office and I am starting to get a little tired of this myself and becoming less polite with each call.
On a possibly related note.. I seem to be getting more "scam" (you won something type) and political text messages on my telcel than I did before I registered it.. so I'm thinking that the registry has already made its way out... as predicted... as for land lines, it seems they literally just scan the phone book and those number get put into the dialing computers... so unless you were never in the book I doubt there is much you can do, as even if there was a "no call list" its highly unlikely that anyone would respect it.
That does it! I took two calls in a row from the same caller, today, hanging up on him the second time. When the phone immediately rang for a third time, I unplugged the phone, and that's how it's going to stay until the 5th of July. When the elections are over, I can think about what I'm going to do with the one-two calls a day I was getting, before.
V: 11 calls total since 9am today.... 2 of the numbers "doesn't exist" when I call them back(just out of curiosity..)... They start with 552 and 555... Grrrrrrr, so annoying!
We changed our number after receiving several scary extorsion calls. We now have an unlisted number (you pay a little each month for it), and we are receiving far fewer unsolicited calls (and so far zero "we're going to kill you if you don't pay us" calls). When I do get an election call, I simply tell them I am a foreigner and can't vote, they hang up pretty quick when they realize I am of no use to them or their campaign.
Yes, there is a no-call list with penalties attached. I have heard it given out on the radio but never wrote it down. Telmex makes money selling the lists to those people so they won't help much. But it does exist. As do many other regulations, laws and rules in Mexico.
I think that's the only way to avoid 90% of all unwanted/unknown callers. Has anyone ever looked for themselves on the phone book? that's where most marketing firms get their databases since these include name & address.
I have a new phone number where I live now that is not in the phone book. The only people who know it are 2 people I have given it to--and Telmex. Now I wonder if my two friends sold my number to the political parties that keep calling me.
