Register your complaints with the Federal Do Not Call registry - and make sure you have registered your number on the DO NOT CALL LIST. Thank you for identifying this number as Verizon. I have filed another complaint for this number and have reported this number - 718-269-0498 to the Federal DO NOT CALL REGISTRY as we continue to receive calls from this number.
Just called, only ID was New York, NY. Young male said "Hello??" and then hung up. His voice was so conversational I was tempted to call back because it might have been legit --- but checked here first. Thanks everybody. Now blocked.
Actually, they are legit FiOS reps. They use a system that only connects you to a rep after you've been determined to be a real "live" customer.
That said, I find this method annoying as h3ll. I usually interupt them and ask tell them "You have 10 seconds to give me your BEST deal." Any questions or sales speech results in them going over their allotted time and I hang up.