Dear Babbs,
That is not how they got anyone's number sorry to say. Why would they need to buy a list? The DNC list has to be bought FYI. The illegal callers only have to plumb in a set of numbers in dialers or computers.
Please don't spreads Urbane Myth's and Legends. Knowledge is power..
http://www.tcpalaw.com/
http://www.kleinmoynihan.com/publication/new- ... ctober-16-2013/
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry
By State DNC lists:
http://800notes.com/res/DoNotCall.aspx
https://www.donotcall.gov/
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus27-complying-telemarketing-sales-rule
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus27-compl ... -rule#DNCrights
The callers are the "free cruise" scammers. Those fooled by these lowlifes will be left waiting at the dock for a ship that never arrives, while the scammers sail away with their credit card information!
I have won a free cruise to the Bahamas!!!! All I have to do is provide answers to a phone survey. (I think these surveys are to qualify you as a buyer for a time share unit, otherwise what's the point on them paying for your trip?). They called my cell phone.
YES It's a scam! you're now on a mailing list!your mailman is gonna hate all the junkmail!!!!BUTWAIT!!!!!!!!!SEND ME $20 AND I WILL TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE!!!see the rivers+ lakes of north-west Ohio from the deck of my 1972 23 foot cabin cruiser, the S.S. SLOWPOKE!!! beer+sandwiches included!!!!!!! but wait!there's more!!!sunblocker,cool hats,cheap sunglasses...all FREE!!! no passports,surveys or any bank account info will be asked for!!!
Call identifier is the most wonderful invention since the telephone ! I never answer callers I do not know nor do I answer any call when the caller blocks their name and numbar from me. You know... Those stupid "Caller Unknown" identifications tell me not to answer if I don't feel like being scammed. I just hit my silence button on my phone which restores my ringer after the caller hangs up.