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From: jbrown@herron.uucp (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Telephone Electronic Junk Mail
Message-ID: <31@herron.uucp>
Date: 12 Apr 89 04:26:22 GMT
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brian@apt.uucp writes:
> How do I register a complaint with, and how do I identify the culprit?

> The computer generated calls I have received did not identify
> themselves in any way.

The phone company will take complaints, as I recall.  One way to get
their identity is to pretend to take them up on their offer - give the
machine a phone number and name, and when they call get their company
name and phone number.  (Of course, tell them that now that you've heard
the details you're not interested.)  (Alternatively, you could tell them
that they're bad folks and you're going to report them.)

I did this once with some company or other; the telco (or maybe PUC; it
was a long time ago) took the info and said they'd deal with it.