I understand where you're coming from. If someone does want to donate to a charity, make sure you do it as anonymously as possible! Never provide any kind of legitimate contact information or they will hound you like a swarm of mosquitoes.
I ran into this problem with Habitat for Humanity. Before Caller ID and when answering machines recorded on tape, a caller would call every day at about the same time and hang up at a point where my answering machine would run the tape to the end with nothing on it, preventing any legitimate callers from leaving a message. One day I was home from work early and at the time of the mystery calls the phone rang - it was Habitat for Humanity who I had donated to just a couple of weeks earlier. I made it clear that their calls were unwelcome, and lo and behold the "mystery calls" stopped.
NEVER give any charity your contact information! They will hound you day in and day out!
Called twice - the first time the ringing stopped after two rings - no one there. The second time I picked it up on the second ring and received dial tone. Caller ID lists it only as a Washinton DC call and lists the telephone number.
do not answer! i get these calls all the time and after about 2 weeks they stop. they never leave a message. only reason i know they call is that we have caller ID. This country is finished?!! Can you imagine no privacy at all. What a joke this do not call list. Just do not pick up the phone not even once. If you do they know you are home at a certain time and will keep calling at that particular time and will keep ringing. Even if you hear a dead noise they are recording your voice on the other end at that time. Let your machine pick up It will STOP.
Got a call from this number and was asked to mail letters to my friends and neighbors for American Institute of Cancer Research. I told them I don't have the time or the energy to do that. What I really meant was that I don't want to prey on the people I know for an unknown organization.
I just got a call, saying it was urgent to speak to my parents...he sounded Texan. We have protection against tele-marketers, so I don't know how this got through.