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I do not know the best way to handle this.  Someone here suggested if you do not recognize the caller-id to do the following:  pick up and enter a bunch of pound signs (#) and then hang up.  

Never best to enter any conversations with these people.

We are on the do not call list and got a call from this number

Got a call from this number at 5:41PM on Friday, 8/24.  NO NAME on Caller ID.  Let it go to answering machine but THEIR recording started BEFORE our outgoing message even began playing!  Partial recording stating "they've been 'trying to reach us' and this was our 'final opportunity' to lower our interest rate on our credit cards".  This all got said BEFORE our machine started recording; as soon as it 'beeped' to record, THEIR recording stopped and they disconnected!

Of course this is a PHISHING SCAM to attempt to get our credit card number(s) and/or IDENTITY Info for ID THEFT.

WHY HAS THIS NUMBER/COMPANY been ALLOWED to keep calling from this number so long?  This has been going on for a month and a half.  WTF?  WHY haven't the FEDS SHUT THEM DOWN???

Getting several calls daily and when I pressed one.  The b/f responding said quit pressing one and what did I want.  I said I wanted to be taken off the call list.  And then she called me a dumb [***] and hung up.

What rude way to do whatever business is trying to do, besides insults to people.

My 89 year old mother got scammed into giving up her SSN, DOB, and other financial information to these blood-sucking parasites. Unfortunately she's suffering from age-related dementia and couldn't process what was going on. I'm hoping that the FTC or some other federal agency will show some interest in the case. It's not a surprise to read the responses other posters received when they questioned the filth who were making these predatory calls.

Same here, everyone needs to contact the don not call list and file a complaint.

I tried calling them back, but their mailbox was full.  What a shame - I had some time to kill and fancied a little 'chat'.

Got that call on my home phone-didn't pick up and don't intend to do so-the message the left me was "Hey!"

Reverse phone: CA. call. Said they were from Amazon.com and offered an affiliate and they'd e-mail me. Didn't (but it is less than one day afterwards, still time). When I called # back, not available because mail-box is full.

Seemed a bit put off when I indicated that I wouldn't have joining fee, until net week. No joining fee, no commission for him.  TEAM

I received two calls today from 408-412-4097 but did not answer, and no message was left.

At a minimum, a complaint should be filed with the FCC at http://www.fcc.gov/complaints.  The form takes a few minutes to fill out and you can file a complaint against three different numbers.  I think this is the most effective way to deal with this problem.  If you file a complaint with the FCC, be sure to submit the link to this thread in the complaint form.  That way, the FCC will be aware that the caller has done this repeatedly.

How it works:
http://onthespotblog.com/on-the-spot-blog-sti ... older-services/
http://onthespotblog.com/tag/cardholder-services/

We need CRIMINAL penalties against the companies that are profiting from these calls. Follow the money, slap them in jail, no one left to outsource to overseas boiler rooms, problem solved.
Since they are operating across borders it should become a federal felony and should be handled by the FBI under the RICO Act.

These calls are coming from call centers in Costa Rica and India and they are using spoofed (false) numbers, which in itself is illegal. They do cold calling for or sell the leads to numerous companies in this country and they know that what they are doing is illegal. Tomorrow this same number may be selling Cruises, Timeshares or Security Systems, but if you follow the money it usually ends up in the hands of an American LLC. Keep complaining to the FTC and FCC, and start bugging our politicians to pass laws to make it punishable in criminal court instead of handing out fines that they don't pay. Another course of action is to contact phone companies to find out why they won't block spoofed numbers. With today's technology that should be an easy thing to do, unless they are somehow profiting from the use of their systems.

Robocalls are illegal unless you have given them prior permission in writing (not worded into some small print contract from a 3rd party) and are absolutely illegal to a cell phone.  The Telephone Consumer Protection Act permits individuals who have received certain unlawful telemarketing, such as junk faxes or telemarketing calls, to sue the violator in state court where they may be awarded up to $1500 for each violation.  See:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/robocalls/  
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/07/robocall.shtm
http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/TCPA-Rules.pdf
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/donotcall/mediacenter.html

People should continually file complaints with their Attorney General’s office and also file with:
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov

If enough people keep complaining then maybe something will get done. The FTC has already taken action against some of them.  See:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/afl_financial.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/voiceblaze.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/12/roycox.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/03/voicetouch.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/robocalls.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/12/robocall.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/09/twi.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/02/robocall.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/robocalls2.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/12/jpm.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/06/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/donotcall/mediacenter.html
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/03/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/voicetouch.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/11/sonkei.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/05/ams.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/01/khalilian.shtm

Arkansas sues robocallers:
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/aug/0 ... arketing-firms/

Missouri sues robocallers:
http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/236974-kost ... nies-over-calls

Proof that current laws mean nothing to these scammers, since some of the same companies have been sued in the past:
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0923193/111219roycoxcmpt.pdf
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/12/roycox.shtm

Caller shows this number and says it's a cell phone. They just keep calling and calling and never leave a number. Jerks.

I either just give them a blast of my car horn (if appropriate) or a blast from my smoke alarm at home.  Sooner or later, they'll put me on a DO NOT BOTHER list.  Otherwise, there will be a bunch of deaf scam artists out there.

I pressed one and told her to take my number off her list or tell me who to sue. She said "F*** You. And hung up.

Applied ONCE years ago for refinance and now get calls weekly, almost daily from whom ever they sold my name to. Unbelievably disgusted.

Please do not place a call to me again

I just read something about these unwanted  calls - that they're increasing and that the callers don't try to keep up with the "do not call" list.  The article (I think it was in the Washington Times or Post) suggested just hanging up and not pressing the number to connect with someone since in the long run that does no good.

im on a do not call list-stop calling me

@Nikki

The point is supposed to be that telemarketers don't call that number.

Unfortunately, this Do Not Call List provides telemarketers a rich database of valid numbers that they can call.

@Anonymous

Thanks for the info.  Is there a reference showing where telemarketers have paid any fines or been stopped?

I am not aware of a law being passed that outlaws spoofing.  I do know that many attempts to do that have failed.

None of these laws are worth a toot if they are not enforced.