"Take survey, win a cruise". Called my cell phone about 45 minutes after calling my wife's cell phone.
Is probably same company that called 2 weeks ago....210-801-9629.
I have relatives that live in San Antonio so I have to answer!
A lot of good it did to get on 'No call' list! Is this reported to FCC to make them stop? Is this doing any good? Or, am I wasting my time reporting this stuff?
A complaint is available to the FCC, not to sound obtuse, if in fact you sent a complaint there. If you're asking what happens to 800Notes complaint data, well, you're looking at them. Law enforcers can read here as easily as anyone but have no affiliation.
A government Do Not Call registry cannot actively halt illegal sales calls any more than your grocery list can leap from your hand and fill a shopping cart for you. People have short memories of how much quieter our phones became in the Registry's first five years. Since circa 2008 the telefrauds have been abusing automated dialers, Caller ID, and cheap VOIP to make themselves nearly invisible to law enforcement, frustrating efforts to sue them out of existence.
Many people cry "FCC" and forget there is another regulator in town, the Federal Trade Commission, which actually has broader coverage of fraudulent telemarketing and is the most active combatant outside of private TCPA lawsuits. Your complaints to either agency are stashed in the Consumer Sentinel Network. A critical mass of good data can lead to enforcement action, but patience is needed. The crooks have gone to considerable trouble to avoid detection and deflect blame. Investigations are fraught with blind alleys. Lawsuits are delayed by defenses which insist the call bombers have a "right" to their business models.
With persistence, sometimes the targets are hit hard. Below is the March 2015 FTC press release regarding the bust of Fred Accuardi and his scheme to launder sales calls with a bogus survey. A year prior, in a similar vein, the FTC roasted Versatile Marketing Solutions for hawking alarm systems to people illegally "qualified" by a faux survey. Note that the span between early complaints and a resolution can be months and years. If you're impatient with that process, find your tormentors and sue them yourself. Then maybe you will cultivate some appreciation for the frustrating work of our regulatory agency staff attorneys.
FTC and Ten State Attorneys General Take Action Against Political Survey Robocallers Pitching Cruise Line Vacations to the Bahamas
Settling Defendants to Pay More Than $500,000 in Penalties for Billions of Illegal Robocalls
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-release ... ainst-political
I too got the 210-801-9629, along with 210-892-1790 call. Both reported to DoNotCall. IMO: Using same calling database to call same numbers from unlimited numbers for years. I've had a nearly daily experience with this calling database for nine months, all reported to DoNotCall till recently.