The offers described, "Lower your credit Card Interest Rate," "You've won a free cruise," etc., are scams. It matters little if you register on the Do Not Call List (unfortunately). If you wish these calls to stop, assist the FCC by registering a complaint at www.fcc.gov and click on "complaints." Provide that office with as many details as you can in order to enable them to investigate and, hopefully, locate the scammers, and fine them. Alternatively, there are a number of "Call Blockers" available through a Google search. On the recommendation of a colleague, I purchased a DigitOne call blocker. Not only does it suppress unwanted calls that you enter into its' memory, it blocks those numbers so you are not even bothered by a "first ring." The feature I like best is that you can block an entire Area Code!! I said "Goodbye" to calls from Irvine, California after being pestered by repeated calls (several had different telephone exchanges within the Irvine Area Code) to lower my interest rate on credit cards.
I am in Canada, Aliant on my home phone and Rogers on my cell. I get calls from area codes 210, 403 and 516, so far. They are all telemarketers of some sort, whether it be some credit removal plan or you've won a cruise, or what ever. Unfortunately, my kids will pick up the phone most times. Answered one on my cell one day and suddenly was using $50 per day in data. I will never answer another number I do not recognize.
Just received my Telus bill with this number recorded and a 40 cent charge just because I answered the call. Of course I won a cruise. The phone companies should check their records and credit all of their customer's accounts. I am just wondering if our Canadian phone companies are encouraging the American call centres to go ahead and call our numbers and then they split the profit. I smell something fishy.