The following is a paid review of Telemarketer Catcher.

Does any of these sound familiar? “So-and-so bank offers you a free lifetime credit card” or “Would you like a personal loan of …” or “You have been selected for a special vacation.”

Almost all of us have been disturbed by the shrill ringing of our telephone only to realize that the important call we’ve been expecting is in fact the call of an overly zealous telemarketer just trying to do his/her job at the cost of our irritation.

Here in India it is terrible, and I understand it is even worse in the USA. Even the Do Not Call registry is unable to successfully stop every single call.

Enter TelemarketerCatcher.com. Launced in 2008 Telemarketer Catcher is a public forum for people to share information about telemarketers. Telemarketer Catcher claims to have the largest list of known or suspected telemarketers, and that users are constantly adding new suspected marketers to the list.

You can use the site to look up a number and determine whether it’s a marketer, or more importantly to publish your own complaint as a warning to others.

I haven’t been able to test the effectiveness of this service, simply because I’m not from the US. Hence, I would love to hear feedback from readers from that region on how effective this actually is in catching telemarketers.

Were you able to find and stop any? How accurate is the database? Have you reported any telemarketers?

Had a real good week at work, wherein I completed all my projects and got myself rated too (decently I must say).

And, a good week deserves a good weekend which is what I got.

Lil white mouse asked me to go out for dinner with her and her cousins. I haven’t met any of them except Sanket last week due to his disbelief in Lil white mouse!

So, we trooped off to Caravan Sarai at Waterfield Road, Bandra (W). Caravan Sarai is in the same building of Golden Orchid, which I visited once several years back.

The setting is as the name suggests. The seats are not that comfortable and the tables are relatively low which means people with relatively longer legs have a not so comfortable time sitting!

The service was not up to work. It took a while to serve us, which was still ok. However, what I didn’t like was the grumpiness in taking the order.

Anyway, the food was great, though expensive. It was both tasty and fresh. I like good food, though I do know I won’t be visiting this place too often.

We then went to the Natural’s at Bandra. Had a mango icecream

Met up with Lil white mouse again today. I had to collect my insurance policy for my bike from my agent in Vile Parle (W). He wasn’t at home, so we dropped in at the McDonalds out there. I haven’t been to that place for more than a few years now!

Collected the policy, trooped back home and we later went to Dynasty for crab meat soup, Tsing Hai chicken, chicken pepper garlic and iced tea. Need I say, we ate well?

I begin my last week of internship in less than twelve hours. Will spend this week writing reports and making the presentation. This is definitely going to be one really really long week!