I get this call periodically, I NEVER answer my home phone - but am upset when I get calls on my cell. I never give out that number. Verizon lets you block a few free but charge extra to block unlimited number of calls.
The FCC no longer takes complaints regarding the phone scammers who robodial your number and leave no message. Worse yet, some states such as NJ, no longer take complaints about DNC violations and the roboscum know that thus our legislators have given them a blessing to continue annoying us. And then to make it even worse, the phone provider profits by providing service to the scammers and won’t shut them down as it would be lost income for them. They know the robosum are out there just by monitoring the bandwidth they utilize. And the phone provider’s even make additional money (in opening new services) by switching the robothieve’s outgoing lines so a complaint about any particular number would be meaningless once they feel it’s time to run and hide once more. So it’s time to fight back – contact your provider to ask to make your number a toll number for incoming calls from “Out of the Area”, 800, 844, 866 or 888 numbers, so when robocallers attack your privacy then they must pay you for your valuable time. Contact your legislators to stop the robocallers – send them a complaint every time you get a call. Tell them to stop the scumbags or you will elect someone who will! And why not sue the phone providers for their inaction to pull the plug on the scum as well? A great class action suit awaits a great attorney team on this one, because it appears that no one, neither Federal nor State authorities give a damn to protect us. The worse part of this whole mess is that the phone companies continue to profit from your life being interrupted. I use a Panasonic KX-TG6844 phone that can block 250 numbers. The cost of $111 pays for itself if you use Verizon’s Call Intercept service (a $9.99 per month ransom plus federal and local taxes) in a year and you can drop the Verizon intercept service.