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Mon 10 May, 2004 12:39 pm
Is it illegal to type up a transcript of a message left on voicemail and send it to the Better Business Bureau to dispute questionable business practices of a sport gym membership company?
All I did was type up the message on my voicemail that a Masssachusetts Sports Gym Rep left on my cellphone and faxed it back to the gym representative asking them to clarify their claims. I cc'd the Better Business Bureau on the bottom. Within minutes I got a call from the gym rep saying that I had illegally taped them on my phone which I did not (they knowingly left a voicemessage). They have threatened to go after me.
I had asked them not to leave messages on my phone and instead to send me written correspondance so that I could verify their claims but they refused.
lol They're blowing smoke.
MA Law does require consent of both parties to tape a phone conversation but you can easily argue that they gave their consent by leaving the message on what was obviously a recording medium in the first place.
Don't worry.
I'm not sure about MA, but in PA, damn fools are always leaving threatening messages on the answering machines of their estranged wives and girlfriends--and getting accused legally of terroristic threats.
If any adult in this day and age can't fathom the Deep Inner Meaning of "after the beep".....
FWIW, doctors have described surgeries performed on voice mail to be transcribed later. Not sure that's relevant to the question, or not.
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