User manual DIRTDEVIL MTZ1000 2-02

[. . . ] Please read these instructions carefully before using your TeleZapper'". Let us help you install your TeleZapperm or answer any questions, call: 1-800-373-6290 www. Unplug this product from the wall telephone iack before cleonii. Do not u s this pradua near water, for example, near a bathtub, washbowl, kitchen sink, or laundry tub, in a wet basement, or near a swimming pool, or anywhere els there is water. [. . . ] 4) W i o poper clip or pen, move the mllwhite dot in the middle of h e witch from BAS ('1 setting to the LEFl so that it is closer to the ADVP) setting (Diagram 1). This movement will be slight but you should hear a soh click. 5) Place the bottom housing piece back on the unit and replace the screws in the housing. 6) Plug both telephone mrds back into the TeleZapperm. Now, when you pick up the phone, the TeleZopper'"should emit three tones, which should sound like the disconnected line signal. To switch bock to BASIC orivory, follow the instructions obove, but move the switch to the RIGHT so the dot is closer to the . The TeleZopperW not hove to be plugged into does o phone for it to work on thot line. Therefore, you con plug it into any unused phone iack in the house and it will work on oil phones and answering machines connected to thot line (phone #). Wait at least 2 seconds before saying anything on your message so theTeleZappei can work when the phone is answered by your answering machine. Wait at leasf 2 seconds before saying anything on your message SO the TeleZappermtan work when the phone is answered by your answering mochine. There ore several hundred telemorketingtoll centers in the US. , with the vort moiority of telemorketingculls being dialed by o computer known or on auto dioler or predictive dioler. Predictive diolen con diol 3-5 numbers simultoneously and con moke or many or 500, 000 colls between 8 om. M When you o w e r your phone, the computer connects you t o o live telemorketer who tries to sell you something. If you ore not home or if the computer gets your answering mochine, your number will be put bock in the dotobore to be tolled ogoin her. When you or your owering mochine pick up o mll, the Telelopperwem$ o spedol tme h o t fools the computer into Linking your number is disconnected. Instead of conneding you to o ~ l e s p u n the computer drops the toll ond stores your number as disconnectedin ihdofobose. As your number is eliminoted , from more ond more lirtr, those annoying compvfergeneroted colls jlat about stop oltogeher. How doer my number get on telemarketingk?K You con get on telemarketing lirtr in many myr: Bv hovina a listed telephone number &ugh reverse phone book organized by o neighborhood When you dial on 800 number that uses on Alltornotic Number ldentilicol~onsystem LANI) to record your numbel Vio credit informotion services, such or Equifox, err By ordering produm or m i t e r from direct morketen or cdokgs, whether you order through the moil, from web sines or vio 800 numbers By printing or including your telephone number on your personal checks Even by imply paying your monthly bills These lists of telephone numbers ore hen often wld, bartered, rented, shored ond copied from one telemorketerto another. As your number mnrfontly finds its way onto new toll lists, the TeleZoppei will continue to do its job over time to help you protect your privorl. If you answer your telephone ond there's no one there, the odds ore thot you iust "zoppedo telemorketer. [. . . ] Whether the TeleZopper" will offed computer dioled rolling rord roUs depends on the type of mmputer equipment ond how tho1 equipment is being used. Since the TeleZoppermisdesignedto disronned tolls before o tomputerizedpredidive dioler ton tanned you to o live telemorketer/toller, there is also o thonte that predidive-dialedtolling turds may not be completed. 0 Doer i t moner whirh end of h e TeleZopper" plugs into the telephone B e ?He unit is direalv is ~luooed the phone iotk on the wall . [. . . ]