Usually automatically block calls with caller I.d. Like this one: Illinois Call. But did answer and the caller called me by name and said she was calling from the State Journal-Register, the local paper. Told her that I do not do business over the phone, hung up, blocked number.
Called my land line, I did recognize number and I.D. only said "Illinois Call". I have had a rash of calls from similar numbers over the last month. I blocked this call along with the others.
Usually automatically block calls with caller I.d. Like this one: Illinois Call. But did answer and the caller called me by name and said she was calling from the State Journal-Register, the local paper. Told her that I do not do business over the phone, hung up, blocked number.
I get a large number of calls from 217-666. The last four keep changing all from Dana, IN. These are Robocalls. I tried telling them I was my local police dept. that did not work, I then tried my county morgue that worked better. Eventually it started again. Now I just say the number was reported to the FCC and FTC and will be reported to the FBI and and they hand up.
Just so you know these types of calls need to be reported to the Federal Trade Commission. The FCC handles ONLY legit telemarketer or collection calls. Enough report them maybe the Feds will do something.