Dear Babbs,
That is not how they got anyone's number sorry to say. Why would they need to buy a list? The DNC list has to be bought FYI. The illegal callers only have to plumb in a set of numbers in dialers or computers.
Please don't spreads Urbane Myth's and Legends. Knowledge is power..
http://www.tcpalaw.com/
http://www.kleinmoynihan.com/publication/new- ... ctober-16-2013/
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry
By State DNC lists:
http://800notes.com/res/DoNotCall.aspx
https://www.donotcall.gov/
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus27-complying-telemarketing-sales-rule
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus27-compl ... -rule#DNCrights
Tired of these irritating calls - just go to Walmart, buy a referee's whistle and keep it handy. When one of these calls come in, blow their freakin' eardrums into never, never land.
Airhorns, Ref whistles, not much good over a phone line, which has dynamic range that is extremely limited, you don't get much louder than a normal voice no matter what the input. Now Dr. Weird's phone spiders, were they only real...