Unfortunately, the DNC list cannot prevent scammers and those who are not required to utilize the list from calling you. Since the caller is asking about a former employee of yours, they may be a skip tracer or debt collector. Those callers are not required to avoid calling numbers on the DNC list since they are neither selling goods or services nor qualifying potential sales leads for a third party. The latter are the only type of callers required to use the DNC list.
Number called my co worker asking for me. We were in the office so she passed me the phone. I asked where he was calling from but the line had too much static so I asked him for a call back # so I could call him from a landline. The number he gave me was for a publishing co in Canada but the caller ID # was from Virginia. The woman who answered from the publishing company knew nothing about it. Seems pretty fishy. Probably a scam.
Similar to other complaints. Repeated phone calls asking for former employees of my company and refusing to identify themselves. I'm on the DNC list and the number is a cell phone. Can not locate information on whom this may be but I suspect it is not based out of this small town where the area code indicates.