Man turns his phone number into a premium number. Makes money off of telemarketers calling him - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462[/url] [quote]A man targeted by marketing companies is making money from cold calls with his own premium-rate phone number[/quote]

how do you do this I want to do this

He only had 30 calls a month? Lucky I get like 5 a day

[QUOTE=Saxon;42000776]He only had 30 calls a month? Lucky I get like 5 a day[/QUOTE] Its simple. Sign up for loads of shit with your mobile number.

Wow, I never thought of this, this is brilliant. (for those that never get legitimate landline calls anyways)

No words can describe my jealousy

I accidentally gave my phone number to some shit-for-brains for-profit school you see ads for on TV and they call me as late as 9 at night and starting as early as 8 in the morning, waking me up. I need to stop being lazy and just block the number. But I figured they'd stop after I kept hanging up... they even called all through Sunday...

I need to change my cell number. Apparently it's really common because I get 2-3 calls a week from someone calling for someone else, and marketing calls 4-5 times a month. [editline]28th August 2013[/editline] I was once woken up in the middle of the night by some girl calling me at 2:30am on a weekday( I had work in the morning) asking me where her purse was, and that she had lost it at the party(?!). I was still half asleep and confused, not even realizing I didn't know who I was talking to, after a couple seconds I woke up some more and said she had the wrong number. She handed the phone to her boyfriend who had an attitude and wanted to know why I was talking to his girlfriend. I just laughed, hung up and went to sleep.

Now watch the loophole get closed.

that's a very big loophole to close

time to make some money...

I have been getting calls for people looking for "Sherry" and texts and twice pictures of random peoples newborn babies since I got my latest cell phone number 6 years ago

[QUOTE=dwt110;42003002]I have been getting calls for people looking for "Sherry" and texts and twice pictures of random peoples newborn babies since I got my latest cell phone number I once got pictures of a black girl in her wedding dress 6 years ago[/QUOTE]

One time a dozen people texted me asking questions about my (nonexistent) car

I knew someone whose phone was one number off from a local veterinarian ER line. She got calls all the time, at any time of the day about sick/injured pets. Probably among the worst kind of calls you can get

once i was hunted by IRS agents over phone looking for a Brandt Jackson. I told them I wasnt him and they got mad at me.

i swear you guys must just eagerly hand out your phone numbers. I have never in my entire life got a telemarketer call.

I started getting them as soon as I got my number. I've even gotten calls from a Library saying I had an overdue book, even though I'd never been to that library.

I've gotten some from "cardholder services". It's funny because every single call they say it's the final notice.

I get a call from a condo security officer looking for someone and I had a chill talk with him one time, but it's kind of weird that they have my phone number. I always get foreigners calling me too, yelling into the phone in their native language at random hours.

[QUOTE=Saxon;42000776]He only had 30 calls a month? Lucky I get like 5 a day[/QUOTE] Start raking in the money. Just make sure you have long conversations with the telemarketers.

Im recently getting around 2-3 calls a day where they ring and just immediately hang up. It is the single most annoying thing because I dont want to just not answer incase its something important but at the same time I have to leg it the entire length of my house to get to the damn phone. (I live in this really weird house thats long as fuck but skinny at the same time)

Genius, why havent I thought of this? I get like 5 calls every morning.

I've been getting calls about a Mike Powell every so often siince I was in 8th grade. I graduated High School last year. Apparently he is a black snow truck driver who had to help his friend get out there "and fight that fuckin' snow" and "deliever these fuckin donuts to these white people" I've had that voice mail saved for years :v: And just last week I was taking a poo, and some guy called while i was playing plague inc and just asked "is this india" I said no and he spoke some odd language and hung up. It's a lot of fun, really.

[QUOTE=Saxon;42000776]He only had 30 calls a month? Lucky I get like 5 a day[/QUOTE] How the fuck you guys get so many calls? I get 1 call per two or three months, if even that.

Telemarketers don't usually call me too much. But old people messing up numbers keep calling me. And then they refuse to believe that they dialed the wrong number. The fuck? How does that make sense in anyones mind?

[QUOTE=SgtTupelo;42004839]Telemarketers don't usually call me too much. But old people messing up numbers keep calling me. And then they refuse to believe that they dialed the wrong number. The fuck? How does that make sense in anyones mind?[/QUOTE] "Hello may I talk to Jessica" "Sorry wrong number" "No its not" The fact that this happens every other week...

Working as a call agent at a Market Research Center (We recruit for Paid Focus Groups), it's hilarious to me when people ask us how we got their number. I always tell them that they gave it out in some manner. My experience has taught me that if you don't want your number to be called, do not share it with anyone. If you give out your number someone, usually big corporations, is going to want to talk to you.

[QUOTE=Inspector Jones;42004874]Working as a call agent at a Market Research Center (We recruit for Paid Focus Groups), it's hilarious to me when people ask us how we got their number. I always tell them that they gave it out in some manner. My experience has taught me that if you don't want your number to be called, do not share it with anyone. If you give out your number someone, usually big corporations, is going to want to talk to you.[/QUOTE] I actually never gave out my home number online ever in my life, my cellphone yes but my cellphone never gets telemarket calls and yet my home phone does.

A guy called me 3 times this morning asking for his friend. I told him it was a wrong number, he called back 2 minutes later and asked if I knew his friend, I said I didn't and it was still a wrong number. I didn't even answer the third time.