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Originally posted by ilikenewsocks
My favorite new strategy is the recorded messages who just say 'sorry we missed you' or 'we're trying to reach you' and leave a phone number (usually an 800 number). Sometimes, to add to the intrigue, they say it's really not necessary to call them back.
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Apparently most of those "please call this number" messages are actually scams - callers get forwarded to some international (often Canadian) pay-number which then puts you on hold while charging you $X per minute.
But the charities have gotten really aggressive recently. Maybe my mistake was donating to Planned Parenthood - I suspect that, not only am I on their internal sucker's list (they now call me about once a week to try to shake me down), but they've sold my number and I'm now on some universal sucker's list. I didn't see any uptick in calls when my main charity was Medicins sans frontieres. Anyhow, PP is really starting to piss me off. Anyone have a PP-like charity (donations supporting services, not political lobbying, ideally) that isn't PP?
