They have been calling me for a couple of months and I've always ignored the calls. I'm sure it's an automatic dialer placing the calls and when the called party answers, the call connects on their end to a sales person. That's why sometimes no one is there when you answer. I finally answered tonight and got some foreign guy who knew my name. It creeped me out so I called Verizon and they blocked the number for me. I asked if they could block all calls from the 201 area code and they couldn't.
They called my phone every ten minutes yesterday, and now again today. I pick up when I can and there's never anyone there. It is highly annoying and its a disruption to my day.
I've had 4 calls from this number since March 3rd. Have no record of the number of calls before that time. I just filed a complaint at FTC.org, and hope it works. I filed a complaint on another number and the calls stopped. Perhaps if enough people complain, we can eliminate a bunch of these nuisance calls.