“A British man fed up with cold calls from telemarketers set up a premium phone number in November 2011 and has made £300 by accepting calls and keeping the annoying marketers on the line as long as possible. Lee Beaumont, who works at home in Leeds, UK, was getting calls at all times of the day. ‘I thought there must be a way to make money off these phone calls,’ he told the BBC. He set up an 0871 line (equivalent to a 900 line in the US), which forces people who call him to pay 10p per minute. Of that, he receives 7p (about 10.9¢). He now gives out his 0871 line to any business that might cold call him, while giving friends and family a different number.”
Related posts:
China's Google Is Now Accepting Bitcoin
Sobriety Checkpoints Paved Path to NSA Email Spying
Financial Considerations for Expats
The U.S. Plot to Nuke the Moon
SnapCard launches bill-pay, makes the IRS its first payee
Grand Experiment Goes Live: Overstock.com Now Accepting Bitcoins
Oakland Insists It Can Defend Medical Pot Club
Secret Service Turns Up the Heat On Circulating Liberty Dollar Coins
FDA Going After Raw Milk Cheese Despite Absence of a Single Documented Case in 23 Years
Bush neocon worries that Syria vote means Congress won’t back Iran strike
Glenn Greenwald: Three Democratic myths used to demean the Paul filibuster
Kucinich: Top 10 Unproven Claims for War Against Syria
ISIS Fighters' Salaries Halved After Loss Of Territory And Air Strikes
CurrencyFair Suspends Foreign Exchange Service for US Customers
3D Printing Now Brings You Semiautomatic Pistols (To Scare Control Freaks)