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DNKrupinski 🏴‍☠️<p>Ich hasse es, dass <a href="https://hannover.town/tags/ColdCalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdCalls</span></a> in Deutschland immer noch erlaubt sind: </p><p>0307001668797 ("PflegeHilft") ist jetzt dauerhaft gesperrt.</p>
Michael Kohlman<p>Likely to be my favorite Cyber MSP Cold Call this week (although the week is young).</p><p>This email asking to schedule a call to discuss why they would be the best choice to outsource my Agency's Cyber-monitoring systems to contained 38 attachments, all with the same name, and all with no file extension.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ColdCalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdCalls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IneptVendors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IneptVendors</span></a></p>
maexchen1<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/@padeluun" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>padeluun</span></a></span> </p><p>??</p><p>Ich frage mich die ganze Zeit, warum sind die ganzen Gewinnspielanbieter, Telefonterror, <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/ColdCalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdCalls</span></a> etc. noch nicht auf diese 0174 2775548 Nummer gestoßen wenn diese so öffentlich hängt?</p><p>Wenn ich meine Nummer ausversehen öffentlichen bekannt gemacht habe wurde ich immer überschwemmt</p>
Michael Kohlman<p>Falling into the more annoying category of Cold Call BS today, I had an email from a Cybersecurity Sales "Executive", with the subject line "test", several image links (undownloaded as our Org policy is to block by default) referring back to their sales lead generation tool, and the individual's contact information.</p><p>Annoyance multiplied x2 because their focus is Cyber MSP.</p><p>It got a reaction of course, just not the one that their org may want...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Blocked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blocked</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ColdCalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdCalls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a></p>
SofaFernsehFan<p><a href="https://swiss.social/tags/krankenkassen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>krankenkassen</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/werbeanrufe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>werbeanrufe</span></a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/coldcalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coldcalls</span></a> </p><p>Kleiner Reminder: Bitte meldet Callcenteranrufe dem SECO. Es muss den Callcentern mehr Schmerzen als Nutzen verursachen, sonst hört das nie auf.</p><p><a href="https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/Werbe_Geschaeftsmethoden/Unlauterer_Wettbewerb/Beschwerde_melden/Antwort_beschwerdeformular.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">seco.admin.ch/seco/de/home/Wer</span><span class="invisible">be_Geschaeftsmethoden/Unlauterer_Wettbewerb/Beschwerde_melden/Antwort_beschwerdeformular.html</span></a></p>
Rob Pegoraro<a href="https://robpegoraro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/rocketreach-data-dump.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p class="">Cold-called PR pitches are <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2019/12/21/its-not-the-most-wonderful-week-of-the-year/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a bad idea</a> that the PR industry can’t seem to let go, but the publicist who called me Tuesday morning managed to transcend the usual problems with that concept–as in, who among us even answers a call from a strange number?–by calling me at the wrong number.</p><p>No, not some other person’s digits: the actual cell number I’ve had since 2000, which I do not use that for business because I have <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2018/06/29/please-stop-asking-for-my-best-number/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a Google Voice number</a> for that purpose (202-683-7948, if anybody reading this needs a reminder) that rings through to all of my devices and lets me preserve a shred of <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2014/05/24/mail-merge-work-home-and-other-e-mail-addresses/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">work/life balance</a>. </p><p>Then the guy followed up on his voicemail by texting me at my cell number, after which he e-mailed me but had the smarts to send that message to my work address (rob@robpegoraro.com, if anybody reading this needs a a reminder). Having recognized his employer as a company I’d covered before, I wrote back with less <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/robpegoraro.com/post/3l4ecvcb2fk2e" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">anger than I’d immediately felt</a> to say that while I appreciated the outreach, I needed him to forget those digits and use my work number henceforth. </p><p>He replied apologetically five minutes later, saying his PR agency had passed on my cell number after seeing it in a database they use. I asked if he could identify that database; less than an hour later, he wrote that the agency had relied on a data broker called <a href="https://rocketreach.co/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">RocketReach</a>. </p><p>I had not heard of that company, but I’ve <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2021/06/13/weekly-output-making-your-offline-self-harder-to-find-online-mark-vena-podcast/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">written enough about data brokers</a> to know that they’re supposed to provide an opt-out. RocketReach, a Brooklyn-based firm, does just that, allowing people in its database to inspect the profile built on them and <a href="https://rocketreach.co/remove-profile" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">request its removal</a> by providing an e-mail address included in their profile.</p><p>That worked as advertised, revealing a hilariously obsolete data dump that you can see above. It included not only my cell and <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2017/06/02/porting-out-a-verizon-landline-number-part-2-my-fios-account-survives-my-vz-mail-moves/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">home</a> numbers but also my old Washington Post phone number–plus five other numbers at the Post’s 202-334 exchange. The profile clearly needed to be put out of its misery, so I helped myself to RocketReach’s remove-profile option. </p><p>I’d like to think that’s the last of this, but as <a href="https://www.theverge.com/22509928/internet-security-privacy-personal-data" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I wrote three years ago</a>, the data-broker industry is a self-licking ice cream cone. So these companies will continue to vacuum up my information from wherever, after which well-meaning publicists will think they’ve cracked the code to get my attention by using one of them. Just this morning, I had one e-mail me at my Gmail address–which is an excellent way to have your pitch vanish between all the newsletters, weekly sales and political fund-raising pleas.</p><p>The stupid thing here is that I am trying to keep my work e-mail and phone anything but private–they’re <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/contact/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">on this site</a> and in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robpegoraro/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">my LinkedIn profile</a>, so any Google search should reveal the correct details. And yet some people feel compelled to do things the hard way by spending money on a people-finder site, after which they only pollute their pitch by barging into my personal digital space. </p><p>If you’re reading this and work in PR, could you please not be one of those people? </p><p><a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2024/09/18/when-a-correct-phone-number-for-me-is-still-very-much-the-wrong-number/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://robpegoraro.com/2024/09/18/when-a-correct-phone-number-for-me-is-still-very-much-the-wrong-number/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/best-number/" target="_blank">#bestNumber</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/cold-calls/" target="_blank">#coldCalls</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/data-broker/" target="_blank">#dataBroker</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/people-finder-sites/" target="_blank">#peopleFinderSites</a></p>
Paul H<p>Just been called by someone claiming to be from "Three" (the phone network) - who knew that Three operated from Skegness? - </p><p>Them: This is xxxxxx calling from Three<br>Me: No, you're not!<br>Them: &lt;Hangs up&gt;</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ColdCalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdCalls</span></a> #01754811129</p>
I see Dud people!<p>I've just had a cold call from a double glazing firm. On my landline. Saying they understand I'm the homeowner. For all this info they seem to get, it's not very accurate, is it? <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ColdCalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdCalls</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spam</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databrokers</span></a></p>
chef 😎<p>Does anybody like these kinds of calls? 😤📳📞😆</p><p><a href="https://social.cologne/tags/coldcalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coldcalls</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/phonespam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phonespam</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/dadjokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dadjokes</span></a></p>
Michael Kohlman<p>You were oh-so-close A.I. Sales Bot:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ColdCalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdCalls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CompaniesBehavingBadly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CompaniesBehavingBadly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AIBehavingBadly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIBehavingBadly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
Crypto News<p>UK Plans To Ban Crypto Cold Calls, Seeks Public Opinion For Evaluation On Businesses - The UK government is evaluating the impact of a potential financial services cold call ba... - <a href="https://cryptonews.com/news/uk-plans-ban-crypto-cold-calls-seeks-public-opinion-for-evaluation-businesses.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cryptonews.com/news/uk-plans-b</span><span class="invisible">an-crypto-cold-calls-seeks-public-opinion-for-evaluation-businesses.htm</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/blockchainnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blockchainnews</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/regulators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulators</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/coldcalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coldcalls</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a></p>
Paul - Grumpy Old Man<p>Two <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/spamcalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spamcalls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/coldcalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coldcalls</span></a> within a minute.<br>#01615245586 -Silent but with "call centre background audio"<br>#02475225428 "Ken from Three"</p>
BenUNC<p>I&#39;d like the breakdown on how many times the &quot;cold LinkedIn connection with immediate sales pitch after accepting connection&quot; method has worked for folks.</p><p>It&#39;s probably right in line with &quot;asking for her hand in marriage on the first date&quot;</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Networking</span></a> <br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Sales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sales</span></a> <br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ColdCalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ColdCalls</span></a> <br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LinkedInSpam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinkedInSpam</span></a></p>