They will not stop calling me and NOT ONLY am I on the National Do Not Call List, but also, they call me LATE at night-- close to 10pm, which is NOT allowed regardless of whether you are on the Do Not Call List or not!! So please report them and let's get them to stop calling us:
https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx
In addition to complaints alleging violations of the national do-not-call list, you may also file a complaint against a telemarketer who is calling for a commercial purpose (e.g., not charitable organizations) IF:
The telemarketer calls before 8 AM or after 9 PM
You can file a complaint by telephone to 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322) voice or 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322) TTY, by fax to 1-866-418-0232, via our electronic complaint form, or mail. For the FCC to process your complaint you must either fill in the electronic form completely or otherwise indicate:
your name and address;
the home phone number where you received the solicitation;
identification of the individual or company whose products or services were being advertised or sold, and any phone numbers included in the call;
a description of the call;
any phone number provided to allow you to “opt-out” of future calls;
whether you or anyone else in your household gave the caller express prior permission to call;
whether you have an EBR with the caller (specifically, whether you or anyone else in your household made any purchases of property, goods, or services from the company that called, or made any inquiry or filed an application with the company prior to receiving the call).
If mailing a complaint, send it to:
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Inquiries and Complaints Division
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
URGENT: THIS MESSAGE IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE, PLEASE READ: I have been harassed by calls from the above number and many, many other "scam" numbers that have appeared in complaints on this website. But this is the first time I have encountered this problem, and it is VERY SERIOUS: yesterday, after returning home in the middle afternoon, I checked my telephone answering machine (I have a digital cordless phone with caller ID, and a built-in digital answering machine). The caller ID listed an incoming call a couple hours earlier, from MY OWN TELEPHONE NUMBER, SHOWING MY OWN NAME! This is impossible: you can't call your own telephone! I checked my other cordless phone in the other bedroom, and: the same call was recorded by the Caller ID. I immediately called AT&T repair first, to see if there was some crazy problem with the phone line itself. The agent told me that I received a "spoof" call, probably from a foreign souce. THE SPOOFERS HAVE THE ABILITY TO MANIPULATE YOUR CALLER ID TO READ A FALSE NUMBER! (If you answered that call, you would have gotten mixed up in some kind of scam originating in another country). The AT&T agent told me they were aware of this problem, and to call the FCC complaint line, or go to their website a file a formal complaint about this, and to get a case number, which I did. To sum it up, you cannot trust your caller ID. Again, this is not somebody with an "800" number bothering you with a sales call, this spoof call proved that the scammers have the ability to override the caller ID system, (and Lord knows what else). Be careful!
Good grief ... you are blasting away with your "urgent" message, when it is ancient news.
Perhaps you should at least try to keep up with things in the 21st century, since there was a law passed in 2009 concerning Caller ID spoofing.
In other words, try solving what you see as a problem, rather than inflicting your old news on others!
Read this:
We can no longer believe the phone number we see on our caller IDs (CID) belongs to the person who called! The bad guys are now using easily accessed technology to "spoof" the CID numbers, so their real number does not appear.
The problem has gotten so bad, the US government actually passed an Act, called "The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009", making such spoofing illegal. See http://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing
for more information.
The FCC adopted that Act in June, 2010, stating that violators could be fined up to $10,000 for each violation.
However, the bad guys are ignoring this law ... after all, they are criminals, and that is what criminals do. Although we now have a "law" against spoofing, it is very difficult to enforce it.
So, if you see a CID number on your phone when you are called by some scammer or telemarketer, it might not belong to the scammer! It might be the number of some unsuspecting third party ... or, it might be one of those numbers that charge $25 (plus about $9 per minute) if you call it back.
To reader "Slim": My sincerest apologies for diseminating "old news"... PERHAPS there are some people in this country who are not aware of all the technical details of this caller ID spoof problem, or they are not "telephone communications legal experts" like you are! And why the heck are you so hot and bothered that I posted this problem in the first place? Does the problem not bear repeating? Is my post costing you anything? I reported the problem to AT&T and the FCC...what the heck have YOU done to help with this problem? Please let us "cave people" know, Mr. Know-it-all, so we can direct all of our problems and questions to you personally.