the caller identified herself by name and said she is with the some Breast cancer group at which point I hung up. I had been contacted by that group a few years ago and they are very persistent in calling.
The caller said she was from a breast cancer fundraising association. I get these calls consistently and have for the last year or so. They call every three or four months - the caller tells me all about how awful breast cancer is, what kind of research they can fund with my donation and when I tell her I can't send anything in, she tells me she'll let me send in $15 since surely I can afford that much. When I say no, she says I don't have to pay it today, she'll send me a card. When I still say no, she sits and argues with me - I reminded her that I told her I had an aunt and a cousin who died from breast cancer and all of my donations go through other fundraisers and she tells me that that's wonderful and surely I can give another $15. The only way to get off the phone with these people is to hang up on them. Without fail, another three or four months later, they call again and I have the same argument. I've asked to be permanently removed from their call list several times.
Once you get on these people's radar, you get all of their "fundraising" calls - I'm suddenly getting phone calls to support police and firefighters and veterans as well. I can legitimately claim I support both of those groups already too and they still won't leave me alone.
I didn't answer it as I didn't recognize the out of state number but it lists to BCFA and they have been calling me about once every other day. Maybe they'll get the point when they don't EVER get an answer.