What is the best way to stop telemarketers and junk mail?

Answer 1

Don't sign up for offers and such that you provide your address and phone number to.

Sign up on the No Call List

Get high speed internet, sign up for Vonage and only give the number to family, friends, and work.

Since I did the above - I haven't had a telemarketing call in like a year.

Answer 2

For telemarketers enlist on https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free. Your registration will be effective for five years.

For junkmail, have a 2 email accounts, one for important stuff (credit card statememts, etc) and the other for websites that you know are going to send you junk mail (for example, when you send an e-card)

hope it helps!

Answer 3

I don't know if it works or not, but I don't answer my land-line ever, I don't have caller ID, so I use the answering machine for that purpose... As far as the junk mail, when I get anything with a reply envelope, I send something else back in it. If I get a Discovery offer, and a Master Card offer say, I'll take anything with my name out, and send the other contents back (switching them, so the Master Card people get the Discover info, visa versa). Sometimes, if there's a "Customer ID Number" with a bar code, I'll circle it, and write "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST" and send them a Doonesbury cartoon from the newspaper, or a hemorrhoid ad from the Valu-Pac coupon book. I like it because it must brighten someone's day in the mail room, and the company pays for the postage. I try to also make it weigh more by jamming coupons from local bars & restaurants (worthless to whomever actually opens the mail), so the company must pay extra in postage to have it delivered.

Answer 4

This is most effective when you not only practice it but tell others to do the same.
For telemarketers, tell them, 'Can you hang on just a second? I have to get something out of the oven.' Then put the phone down and don't come back (don't hang up either.) This only works if its your land line, because they will end up sitting there for five to ten minutes on the company's dime. They'll take you off their call list.

For junk mail, if there is a "no postage necessary" return card, simply leave it blank, or write "stop sending me junk mail" on it and mail it back, leaving them with the postage tab.

Answer 5

Go to this website to get on the DO NOT CALL LIST for telemarketers. (govt run and no fee)

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

Junk Mail -- check with the post office. You MAY be able to request that a certain class of mail not be delivered but you will wind up missing out on local flyer's as well.
I actually have fund with this by sending one advertisers promo to another solicitor using their prepaid envelopes (costs them 60 cents when you do that) and it creates jobs at the post office

Answer 6

the do not call registry is for phones.

junk mail you can try calling the places....or opra mentioned that there was a link to on her website to a site that charges you like less then $20 a year or something to have them stop being sent as like a "go green" kind of thing. I dont' remember what the website was called though. They'll plant a tree for you too

Answer 7

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

Its a national do not call registery. But that only works for telemarketers.

For mail, dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist
but I think that one costs like a buck.

Answer 8

as for the calls go here https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

as for the mail if you know it's junk write wrong address and put it back in your mail box it would get sent back to the junk mail sender.

Answer 9

Check out these web sites for tips on that:

http://www.optoutprescreen.com/
http://www.dmaconsumers.org/
http://www.junkbusters.com
http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/
http://dmoz.org/Home/Consumer_Information/Advocacy_and_Protection/Junk_Mail_and_Telemarketing/

In general, you need to be very persistent and contact every organization that knows about you, and ask them to (1) stop contacting you, and (2) not share your information with other companies. They will comply if you ask, but it's a lot of places to contact.

Answer 10

Change email address! Once they get you in their database, they will never stop. most spammers are from overseas and they will change their email addresses and use the same databases over and over.

Overseas ISP's do not close accounts for spam. most comne from vietnam and southeast asia or the ukrain.