Call came at 7:32 pm 7/12/13. Tons of noise in the background. Woman with thick accent said she was from Gold Rush something. Said I wasn't interested. She said oh, not a sales call, blah, blah. I should've hung up, but said Fine, what's it about. Sarcasm wasted. She says she has to get her manager to talk to me. He comes on the line, starts telling me about an open house or something for Gold Rush, "here in unintelligible city." I tell him I can't hear him, and where is he? Same garbled name. He keeps saying "Okay? Okay?" I said NO! Stop talking to me and never call here again, never. I hung up. It felt like he wanted me to say yes, which would maybe have me agreeing to something I don't want. I'm a little concerned because they did know my name. I am on the Do Not Call list, but it didn't help. I hope I don't get this call again, but maybe I'll take the advice of a previous poster and fake 'em out with an accent of my own. Or, since I know their phone number, I could answer "Thank you for calling the office of the California Attorney General for Consumer Affairs." There is such an office! It MIGHT scare them.
Multiple calls a day everyday, I finally just answered and got dead silence then disconnect. Called the number back got the "trying to reach unavailable" recording. I'm also getting calls from a bunch of other numbers. So frustrating!!
Called tonight at 7pm and 8:38pm. Call is from "Out of Area", but is actually in my area code so I don't bother answering. Blocking it now though and reporting it since late night telemarketing ticks me off. Interesting comment earlier about Carnival Cruises - they called me a couple of weeks ago, asking for someone I've never heard of, then tried to sell me a cruise. Wonder if Carnival sold my number to these people, or whether it's robo-dialing. Regardless, reporting to the DNC (useless as that may be).