Just a
nother bogus call.

These pollsters have been ringing my phone at least 6 times. I've told them twice that I don't want to participate. They say they aren't bound by the do not call list, but surely there should be  something to protect consumers from being harassed on their cellphones

The Marist Poll is a very well respected surveying company, If anyone bothers to turn the news on now and again about half the polls you see are done there. If you have the time you should participate in their surveys

I answered the call @ 6 pm, they said they were calling from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY taking a poll on issues impacting Virginia residents. I said I did not have time or interest in participating wished them a good night and hung up. Same number called again at 9:20 pm. How rude, I was in bed already. I did not answer.  Hope they stop calling. Does anyone really participate in phone surveys anymore?

Got this call @ 6:30 10/14/13. Glad I didn't answer.

Yes, it is true that you are exempt.

However, you would think that a college would encourage the spirit of the law vs. the letter of the law and simply program the computer not to call anyone on the do not call list. Additionally, it is logical to conclude that those individuals who took the time to sign up on the do not call list really don't want any unsolicited calls, be they research in nature or not. To me, this is common sense. Of course, perhaps they don't encourage the use of common sense in college anymore.

Hi everyone, I'm surprised this hasn't been cleared up yet but I can help!
Yes, this number belongs to Marist College, officially the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

If you're on the do not call list and still receive a call, it's because we are a research institute and are therefore exempt from the do not call list. We are not telemarkers and are not calling to ask for money, we're just an educational program interested in your opinions! We normally call to do surveys about issues facing your area.  

The numbers we call are randomly generated by our computer system, therefore we as callers have no idea who you even are and your answers aren't linked to you in any way. Everything is completely confidential.

Basically I just wanted everyone to know that it's not a scam and is actually a really great program at the college! It is a nationally recognized and highly credible institute collecting data to help others.  I am actually a student employee there.  If you have any more questions their website is www.maristpoll.com

:)

Live in Indiana, somehow this phone number was calling my work number. However, they were doing it a LOT.
3/25 - 5:51pm
3/26 - 11:59 am
3/27 - 11:45am
3/27 - 3:47pm

I answered the last time and just said I wasn't over 18 and that nobody around was over 18 to get them to stop calling. But seriously, if I didn't answer the first time, they shouldn't continue calling me multiple times.

The national pandemic of telephone terrorism perpetrated by desperate criminal collection agencies and scam artists of every despicable sort is because they are trying to terrorize people who are naive enough to answer and submit to unsolicited telephone calls or written "collection" letters that have no legitimate legal debt associated with them or any of the companies, universities, or whomever else they claim to represent. Because most "little guys" were bankrupted by the criminal Wall St / Congress / Big Oil / Big Bankers / Big Business / Military / Robber Barons, so the desperate collection agencies are attempting to collect unpaid debts from innocent people by terrorizing them into submission. News reports claim that some of these nefarious rogue calls are originating from overseas, where the caller claims to be a relative down on his or her luck who needs hundreds or thousands of dollars to get out of trouble, a policeman or government agent threatening their unwitting victims with lawsuits, fines, garnishments, seizures of property and imprisonment, and any other unconscionable tactic they can use to terrify and swindle the unwary out of their life savings.

Word of advice. NEVER answer any calls you don't recognize or are not expecting. Use selective call rejection service if available, or switch to an Internet-based telephone service which provides comprehensive call rejection options. If rogue calls become chronic, turn off all the ringers on all of your phones except one, and set its volume to the minimum setting. If you don't answer the call and the caller is legitimate, they will usually leave a voicemail after the first or second try. Rogue callers almost never leave voicemail messages because that could be used as evidence against them if it came to a lawsuit. If you receive a rogue letter in the mail warning you of some "collection" action against you, if you don't actually owe it, reply with a short letter stating that you don't owe it. Or if you do owe all or part of it, reply with something like "You claim I owe you a debt. Under §809 FDCPA, I request validation of this debt."

Only give them your name as THEY have written it to you (e.g. ?John Doe? not ?Jonathon Q. Doe? or however you normally sign your own name), address, and the account number they report. But if you do not owe the debt (zombie debt, aged debt, mistaken or stolen identity, forgery, etc.) state that you have never done any business with them or with the (alleged) original creditor of any kind and you expect the collection agency to close the matter, stop harassing you and take any bad credit marks they've caused off of your credit rating, and furthermore, that any further contact from them must be in writing on their official business correspondence letterhead. Send your letter to them a.s.a.p., always within thirty days, first class certified mail return receipt requested. If they refuse it and you get the letter back unopened, leave it unopened and save it in your files as evidence against them should they pursue legal action against you. If they did receive it and continue to pursue action against you, let them. The judge will throw it out of court. If the rogue collection agency sells your account to another rogue collection agency just tell them the claim has been proven invalid and offer to send them a copy of your letter to the previous rogue collection agency.

Warn all your friends about this rash of desperate collection agency terrorism, and how to combat it. Knowledge is power. The more you learn how to combat rogue collection agencies, back-taxes scammers, phishing scammers, "faith and family" scammers, political action committees and other low-life flimflammers, the more you will learn how easy it is to do.

Above all, keep a record of everything, of every rogue call w/ caller ID information displayed including time and date of each call. Maintain a complete file on any snail-mailed intimidation from rogue collection agencies, including copies of all correspondences and postal receipts. Reporting rogue calls on sites like 800notes.com, whocallsme.com, phoneowner.info is a great idea too, because many people find these sites by googling for the rogue number(s) after receiving calls from them.

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Start Here:
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs3-hrs2.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%C2%A7809+FDCPA
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=zombie-debt
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=slander-of-credit
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=limited-liability-company+collection-agency
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm
http://www.ehow.com/way_5849463_do-up-certified-dispute-letter.html
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Battling-Consumer-Debt-Collectors-Part-2-I-Do-Not-Owe-This-Debt
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Sample-letters-for-disputes-to-creditors--collectors-and-credit-bureaus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDCPA
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/Disputing ... ute-letter.html
(most say the above sample letter is too long and should be much shorter)
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/statue-limitations.html
http://www.spooftel.com/

Credit Report:
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

USPS:
https://www.usps.com/send/insurance-and-extra-services.htm

Other links:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/29 ... tors/index.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/category/12/103/358/
http://clarkhoward.com/topics/drop_dead_letter.html
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Information for filing complaints against rogue telephone calls, telephone harassment, false "bill collector" harassment, etc., in the United States and Canada (pursue legal action only as a last resort):

UNITED STATES

US National Do Not Call Registry, file complaint: https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov 1-877-382-4357
File complaint online: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
that is at www.ftc.gov

Federal Communications Commission
Telephone toll free:  1-888-225-5322
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html
File complaint online: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumers.html
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

FCC Abandoned Calls Complaint form:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/1088D-R.pdf
email:  fccinfo@fcc.gov

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/us/


INTERNET CRIME:
File report for Internet Crime at:
Internet Crime Complaint Centre
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx


CANADA

RCMP Phone busters
Telephone toll free: 1-888-495-8501
Mon-Fri 8:30-5:20 pm (Eastern Time)
E-mail: info@phonebusters.com
RCMP Website is at: http://www.phonebusters.com  
File complaint online:  https://www.recol.ca/intro.aspx?lang=en
(Register with a password and then can continually file complaints)

Canada National Do Not Call Registry:
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Telephone toll free to File A Complaint: 1-866-580-3625
(to withdraw a complaint is 877-249-2782)
CRTC online complaints form: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/pfplin-fccoin-eng
that is at  www.crtc.gc.ca

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/canada/

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Received call from them tonight came over as a "call" on cell phone. Wanted to do a survey about cell phones usage. Told not interested and asked to take off call list. Seemed to be random calls.

Telemarker "conducting survey". Received unsolicited text message shortly afterward claiming I won "free ipad"--suspect connection between call and message. Just more criminal low-lives trolling for valid cell phone numbers, I assume.

they left no message

I received a call on 3 separate times. Always around 8:00 pm mtn time. My phone has an App that will verify unknown numbers & then block them per my request. This number : 845-575-3773 is a survey company; so, I blocked the number. February 20, 2012.

Maybe you should learn to spell yourself.  Re-read your post!!!!!

Received a call from this number on my cell phone and then my home right after.  I'd like to know how they got both my home and cell number.  I've contacted Public Relations at Marist College for a response.

Damn it I thought my cell was unlisted.  Marist college wants to do a survey about how I use my cellphone.  I told her I wasn't interested.  That's one way I don't use my cellphone.

I called and spoke with the President of Marist College.  They are legitimate.  These are students of the College from various courses such as sociology, political science, etc.  Part of their grades are based of how well they put together and report on a survey of their own design.  
I was assured that they were not soliiciting funds for any reason and I was told that If I did not wish to participate to let them know and they will not call again.  I called and they asked me about ten questions on my views on various subjects such as don't ask, don't telll and social security.  
These are college students, they do not know anything about do not call lists and the like BUT their supervisors said they will honor your wishes.   They are a non-profiit agency and as such, they do not have to abide by no call lists but they have indicated that they will  abide by your wishes  Please be civil to them, they mean no harm and they are not trying to get into you wallet or collect a bad debt, etc.  Again, politely tell them that you do not wish to participate and they will remove you from the list.  Better yet, maybe you could answer a few simple survey questions and help restore their view on human cooperation.  .  It's a shame they have to take heat because of other crappy people out there abusing the system.

You are retarded.

They called me after 9:00 and woke me up. I called back and totally reamed the guy that answered and told them to take me off their call list. Probably won't make any difference but it sure felt good... you should try it.

8:04pm on April 1st. No message left. I'm sooooo tired of this.

6:33 on Dec.9 An idiot called and left no message, annoying!

A survey from Marist College? no thanks.

Thanks for the information. I just called the president's office and was put through to Marist Poll and they removed my phone number from the automated system that was calling - they said that the numbers were randomly generated.

I suggested that they stop the calls after 9:00 pm. as they had woken me up twice in the last week calling at 9:45.  They declined.

I got a call from this # as well

Received a call from 845-575-3776 (Marist College) asking household information. I refuse to give out personal information from random callers. If I answer their questions I can't be sure that I am not being  scammed.

I wonder if someone called the president of the college and starting asking questions about his household...?

If you receive a call, try calling the president of Marist College

President: Dennis J. Murray, 845-575-3600.

caled loocking for donations for colige students

Got a call on our fax line from this number.....

calls 2 nights in a row around 8pm at night.  Asked them to not call back the first night and they called back and argued with us the 2nd night.

i got a static-y answering machine message from 845 575 3776 tues oct 26 at 8:04 pm

I got ANOTHER call form this number. at 9:07pm  oct 20. :(