Months after 10 Investigates
uncovered inmates taking part in
the Nationwide Robo call problem,
the head of the Department of Corrections
still doesn't want to talk about it,
but that hasn't stopped 10 investigation
of her Titus from working to help you.
Instead, she's found a way for
you to fight back against those
robo callers and stop the calls.
Millions of robo calls a day
bugging the heck out of column 2nd.
Yeah, that's definitely not getting answered,
and when we found out that Florida
inmates were taking part in these calls,
we wanted answers.
One of you guys that would sit down with us.
We've tried for months to get the head of
the Department of Corrections to talk to us.
We sat outside his office and called
and emailed him regularly for months
in their most recent response,
his communication staff wrote us in an email.
We are declining the opportunity
to do an interview for this story.
It is not subject to availability while
they're refusing to tell us what.
They are doing to crack down on these calls.
I've learned you can crack down yourself
one floridi and did just that and he's
made thousands of dollars doing it.
My first one.
This is 3000. Adam Ward is making
money. Lots of it. He's paid off
his credit cards next purchase,
either something sportier and
is already making plans for
his next big purchase. We want to get
a new car for awhile and it
may be coming sooner rather than
later. I should be settling another.
This week for between 8:00 and 10:00,
so in 10,000 so $22,000.
All because you were had enough
with these robo callers had enough
had enough wanted to wanted
to make him rethink it wanted
to hit him in the wallet.
Make him make up
a make them pay. Let's rewind that he
wanted to hit him in the wallet. Make him
make up a I'm Yep you heard that right then.
Believe it or not or those companies behind
some of those unwanted calls to your phone.
The telephone Consumer Protection
Act of 1991 allows penalties
each time a company violates the
national do not call registry.
Uses automatic dialing systems or pre
recorded messages in an illegal manner.
The federal government uses the law to
target harassing telemarketers in rare cases,
but more importantly,
the T CPA allows citizens to file
lawsuits against telemarketers
who may make 10s of thousands of
automated calls on any given day.
It's just such an annoyance and this
is where dot Compton
comes in, but the easiest
thing is to just go to the
website. Robo calls cash,
that's where you will find the
turning robo calls into cash kit.
It costs $47 and includes a
sample demand letter you sent
to the company's calling.
You letting them know that
they are breaking the law.
Essentially, you have to take
the call you have to talk to the caller,
get them to give you a little
bit of information, the types of
information that you're going to try,
and get out of the caller.
Varies depending on the types
of calls that you're getting,
who it is that's calling when
they're calling, and so on.
From there, use the template demand
letters that we provide in the kid.
It's basically filling in the blanks.
Send it off and believe it or not,
these guys want to negotiate.
They don't want to go to court tenant.
That's the gates uncovered
consumers across the country.
Caching is just like Adam did.
One day. I just checked my email
and I had an email from a lawyer for
this one company saying that they yeah,
well I will give you.
1000 bucks it was.
I mean basically they were.
We got your letter,
we deny it everything you said,
but we're willing to give you
1000 bucks to settle this.
And I was like, oh,
it's game on his first settlement
ended with him receiving
$3000. What kind of company was the 3000
and extended warranty auto company?
So the the ones that always call
us the majority of them are?
Yeah, it's mostly insurance,
mostly insurance.
It's a lot of auto insurance,
primarily extended warranty. He sent
that first letter just last year and how much
money have you made total now?
22,500 Adam says even though the
state and federal governments are
working to crack down on robo calls,
it's still not enough. My phone numbers
and registered with the
Indian Sea since 2005. So in
the meantime, he's fighting the
calls on his own. The simple
fact that you didn't. You know,
scrub my number against the national.
Do not call registry alone is $1500 per call.
What do you hope comes out of all this?
I want everybody to be able to
answer their phone and not have to
silence every other call because
it's somebody trying to sell him an
auto warranty or health insurance.
Or you know, mortgage,
refinance or whatever it is.
That's the big picture for me and
I have a lot of people ask me.
You know if this works,
aren't they eventually gonna stop calling?
And the answer is
yes. And remember those companies calling
you from overseas their total scams.
Yeah, those won't payout.
Adam says that he doesn't always get lucky,
but I'd say he's been lucky enough.
What do you guys think?
22,500 sounds like he's doing what he
can to stop those annoying robo calls.
Let's take a deeper dive in about 10.
Investigates has uncovered in
their investigative series.
Stop the calls. Now.
They uncovered more than two dozen
work release inmates working
in Tampa Bay area call centers.
After reaching out to the
Department of Corrections,
the DOC pulled those inmates from the call
Centers for a short time to investigate,
but they refused to speak to 10 Investigates
and the Department of Agriculture,
who overseas telemarketer licenses,
told our team that they were not aware.
That it makes working in these positions.
You can see our full investigation
and find out how you can fight
back and maybe even cash in
at 10 typically.com/robocalls.