Q Daily News: "I received the oddest phone call yesterday, a robocall from DirecTV (from whom we currently receive our television service). It went more or less exactly like this:

Hello, my name is Diane, and I'm with DirecTV. From time to time, we like to call our customers with information about our latest promotions and specials, but we cannot call you with these, as you're on our do-not-call list. We'd like to offer you the opportunity to update your status with us; press 1 if you want to remove your listing on our do-not-call list, or press 3 if you want to stay on the list.

Does anyone else find this the slightest bit weird --- receiving a call from a company which acknowledges that they shouldn't be allowed to call you, and asking if you still want that to be the case? In any event, the phone call is in explicit violation of DirecTV’s own “Do Not Call Policy”, which in part reads:

DIRECTV’s Outbound Telesales Department is a department within DIRECTV that engages in telemarketing to existing DIRECTV customers. The Outbound Telesales Department will not call any DIRECTV customer who has communicated his or her desire not to be called.

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