Problem is, you have to find them, and you have to sue them in their home town, not yours. You might me able to recoop your costs of the flight out there, though. Bigger problem is that most of these people are not legitimate telemarketers. They are scam artists with spoofed numbers, so it's much more difficult to track them down and sue them or get them arrested.
Call made 6 /29/2009 @ 12:19 PM. Caller ID Merchant Svc, 214-624-5721. Answering machine recorded only one heavy exhale. Maybe this one is ready to give up.
When the telemarketers realize that only the lonely answer their calls, the volume will drop.
Called this afternoon by someone who hadn't mastered the English language. He mumbled something which sounded like "Is this the owner of the cone?" I told him I couldn't understand him and asked him to repeat himself twice, then he hung up. Since the text on the Caller ID only said "TEXAS" I'm assuming this is a spoofed number.