#cold-calling

As the economy comes under increasing pressure, I find myself wading through an email inbox increasingly filled with clutter. I am being too polite. It is filled with garbage. Sadly, much of that garbage comes from sales folk who think they are reaching out to me to generate much-needed business for their companies. Cold-calling is part of a salesperson’s job, I know that, and it is hard. If you…

Ann Arbor, MI — Classmates and professors were reportedly concerned this past week, as 2L Kevin McCloud's excuses are getting increasingly elaborate and—they worry—beginning to strain credulity.

"At first, when called on by the professor, he came up with the normal excuses to avoid answering," fellow 2L and Law of the Internet classmate Ned Ellis told Ipse Dixit. "You know, 'forgot to read,' 'left my notes in the printer,' 'voice a little hoarse today.' The go-tos. But then it started to get strange."

Law of the Internet classmates report an ever-growing range of excuses employed to divert cold-calls. Moving on to less and less plausible scenarios, including "grandma died," "thought Halloween was a federal holiday," and "other grandma died." Though some find this slipperiness admirable, many others have found it confusing. 

"I believe Kevin when he says he was busy spending Monday 'respecting the troops,' but is that incompatible with the reading? Can one not find a moment in between 'composing haikus' to learn about intermediary service liability?" asked Christine Shewmaker (3L).

Law of the Internet Professor Evelyn Ferguson has typically and amusedly moved on from the student without further follow-up questioning. Nevertheless, the desire for greater explanation or information has only grown since McCloud began insisting, variously, that his textbook was still on backorder with Amazon and he had been too busy skydiving.

Indeed, what started as an apparent attempt to avoid responsibility, has grown into a substantial—even impressive—universe-building narrative by the 2L student.

"Honestly, I didn't become concerned until he said he had been kicked in the head by a mule, and later—somehow unrelated—kidnapped by a drug cartel," continued Shewmaker. "But if he's being honest about the mule thing, that…that’d explain a lot."

As of last Monday's class, he indicated his hoarse voice had grown into a black lung, submitting as evidence a doctor's note, before returning to eating his quesadilla. There were no additional questions asked.

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Directors could be held responsible for nuisance calls

The Law Society Gazette has recently stated that the department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has proposed acting against company directors for nuisance calls. According to the DCMS, they “escape justice”. Company directors that allow nuisance calls – or cold-calling - could be charged with fines of up to £500 000. They claim that directors keep evading the law through dubious methods including starting up cold-calling companies under new names, after claiming bankruptcy through penalty payments.

The Minister for Digital and Creative industries, Margot James MP, said: "Nuisance calls are the blight on society and we are determined to stamp them out.” The DCMS also advised that unwanted calls could be stopped if the information commissioner has the power to hold the unsavoury bosses responsible. This proposal was made after the government rejected the total ban in the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill. With its third and final reading in April, the call for a ban on cold-calling marketing practices was cleared. There were no amendments made for a complete ban.

Statistics for nuisance calls in the UK

Cold-calling in the United Kingdom is a big deal. The Financial Adviser illustrated the spectrum of this matter with the following statistics:

• 4200 cold calls are made every single minute of the day. This means that over 6 million calls are made daily.

• 2.2 billion cold-calling texts were made in 2017 alone.

• Pensioners over the age of 65 seem to be the main target of the cold calls. Calls to pensioners make up approximately 30% of all cold calls.

• Many nuisance calls relate to pension. There are also large numbers of calls regarding protection insurance as well as PI claims.

• Nuisance calls for PI claims appear to make up most of the reports by affected consumers.

What can you do about Cold-Calling?

• Stop them before they start

Prevention is so much better than a cure in the case of cold-calling. You can successfully avoid cold calling if you register with the Telephone Preference Service. It is then illegal for any nuisance callers to contact you unless you have previously given them your details. Especially when it comes to making PI claims which can at times not even be relevant to you! If they continue to call you after you have requested that they stop, their calls will be considered an illegal activity.

• If you do need a cure

Avoid the cold calls by blocking their numbers. Sometimes their numbers will appear as withheld or as international calls. This could however mean that you miss an important call that is not a cold call. Don’t forget to report all scam calls to Action Fraud Police.

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Indian Telecoms Regulator Targets Cold-Calling with Major Blockchain Project

In what may be the largest implementation of a consumer-facing blockchain project by a regulatory authority, India’s telecoms regulator, Trai is planning to use blockchain technology to put an end to cold-calling for up to 900 million telephone subscribers in the region. The news was reported by India’s Business Standard, on Wednesday.

Following unsuccessful measures in the past, the regulator…

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