In India we have legislation which allows you to put your phone number on a 'Do Not Call' list. Telemarketers have to be registered with central authority and are not supposed to call people on the DNC list. The first violation (call, sms whatever) gets you a warning, and the second gets your telephone disconnected and hits you with a heavy fine.
I am delighted to report all unsolicited SMS es and calls, and get a kick out of "This telemarketer has been disconnected for unsolicited marketing" reports.
The system doesn't work uniformly well across the country yec, but it is getting better and spam SMS and call levels have come down to almost non existent levels, and any occasional calls are reported pronto. Anybody trying these tricks in India had better be prepared to get their telephone disconnected and pay some heavy fines.
oh it does. The law is pretty clear. Here in India, I, the recipient of a call, decide what is unsolicited telemarketing.
Whether a company has/had a commercial relationship with me is irrelevant, especially in a case like the OP provides, where I have not given the company my phone number and the caller got it through some sneaky data mining. If it is an unsolicited call, and the recipient feels it is spam, register a complaint and the caller gets punished.
Pretty good policy imo, keeps such nasty shenanigans down.
I am delighted to report all unsolicited SMS es and calls, and get a kick out of "This telemarketer has been disconnected for unsolicited marketing" reports.
The system doesn't work uniformly well across the country yec, but it is getting better and spam SMS and call levels have come down to almost non existent levels, and any occasional calls are reported pronto. Anybody trying these tricks in India had better be prepared to get their telephone disconnected and pay some heavy fines.