This one is making its rounds again, as a pre-recorded female voiced message will tie up your machine, about the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act that was "recently passed by Congress" (yea - in 2009, some 6 years ago!). These cow-loving robo-terrorists provide fake "urgent" data to entice a response in order to steal your life, and your loved ones lives as well, by saying you need to press 1 to stop an impending electric rate increase or to press 2 if they reached you in error. Regardless of what you do other than hang up and report the nefarious scum they will steal something from you if you respond in any other manner.
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 that phone provider who also know the robo-terrorists are out there just by monitoring the bandwidth they utilize. And the phone provider’s even make additional money (via charges for opening new services) by switching the robo-terrorists outgoing lines so a complaint about any particular number would be meaningless once the robo-scum feel it’s time to spoof any number du-jour.
Folks, it’s high time to fight back – contact your phone service provider and request to make your number a toll number for incoming calls from any “Out of the Area”, “Unavailable”, 800, 844, 866 or 888 numbers, so when robo-callers attack your privacy then they must pay you for your valuable time. And for paybacks – identify the robos-cum and supply their mailing address to every junk mailing firm possible as there are lots of postcards in magazines. On the up side - this will help reduce the USPS debt.
Contact your legislators to stop the robo-callers – 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 these phone terrorists as well? A fantastic class action suit awaits a great attorney team on this one, because it appears that neither Federal nor State authorities give a damn to protect us and openly permit the phone companies to continually 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.
Contact the Consumer Union (Consumer Reports) site www.EndRobocalls.org and sign their petition to pressure the phone companies and lobby the government. It won’t cost you a cent! BTW, recent news articles (early July 2015) indicate Verizon is going to screw us more during their attempt to deregulate communications services and fees which could cost us more by buying into their anonymous call intercept useless service, etc.
Number called here and robo blocker prevented the call from coming through. Called the number back and got dead air... perfect sign that this is a scam call.
AL: Why do you expect criminals to use the DNC list? Do you expect bank robbers to give up their trade, just because there is a law against robbing banks? Duhhhhh.