First of all, on this number, everyone should know that no number begins with the number 1 -- the number 1 is exclusively used to get a long distance line. Everyone should be really suspicious of this kind of number, and the telemarketer must think that everyone in the USA is really stupid not to realize this.
Wise up people -- it must be true that America has way too many guiilable, dumb, or stupid people, or people who just do not care. The telemarketers know this and they are reaping income from these ignorant people. Of course, the most of us who hate telemarketers are the ones who suffer daily with this illegal activity. You cannot do anything about spammers and telemarketers calling you and they all know it --- and the government is useless and will not do anything to stop these continual law-breaking calls. The do not call list is useless, I get 10 - 12 telemarketer calls daily, many more since renewing my phone numbers on the do not call list. Where do you think that the telemarketers get the good numbers to call? Like YOUR number? Robo calls just go down numbers automatically, in numerical order, with no regard as to whose number it is or if the number the robo is calling is on any do not call list. But other telemarketers, mainly those who have a live person on the other end waiting for you to answer, these telemarketers get your number FROM THE DO NOT CALL LIST, OF COURSE! Telemarketers are provided the Do Not Call Lists and are supposed to remove these numbers from their database. But the telemarketers know that the numbers on the Do Not Call List are all good numbers and the telemarketers also know that nothing will be done to them for calling all of the Do Not Call List numbers, so they persist. The phone companies will do nothing to stop the telemarketers either --- it is big revenue for the phone companies. The phone companies are just as much at fault for this mess as is the FCC and the telemarketers themselves. And everybody knows that Congress is totally useless at anything. Reporting a telemarketer call number to the FCC will not accomplish anything either, the FCC will just ignore you. There is nothing that you can do to stop any of these illegal and annoying calls except to utilize your own devices and methods, and this is not much. But you do not have to fall into the telemarketer's net. Whenever I get a call that I do not recognize the calling number or name (if displayed) in my caller ID, what I do is to quickly push the talk button on the phone then immediately push the OFF button to cut them off. DO NOT ANSWER your phone with a hello, you are just confirming that the telemarketer has reached a good number. Just press talk then press off quickly. The telemarketer will be charged for the call, and all you will be out will be the time it takes you to push talk then quickly push off, albeit the call is still annoying --- or if you do not have one of those phones, pickup the receiver then quickly press the hang up button. If you do not have caller ID, well, you are out of luck, you will have no idea who is calling, and the more calls you answer from these bums, the more calls that you will be getting. Blocking calls does not work well either because these telemarketers change and spoof their numbers and names often. Many of the telemarketers use local numbers that have been disconnected as if that disconnected number were their own. Whatever you do, DO NOT CALL THE NUMBER BACK, because, again, you are just confirming that the telemarketer reached a good number and your phone number will be added to the telemarketer's list as being good and they will then persist in calling you often. If you do answer and ask them to remove you because you are on the do not call list, they will become rude and scoff at you and call you more often. If you fall for the number press game when answering a telemarketer automatic call, for example when instructed to press 1 for service, press 2 to disconnect, or press 3 to be removed from their call list, you are again confirming to them that your number is a good number and that you will answer the phone. DO NOT CALL THEM BACK -- if you do call them back, this could constitute that YOU ARE ESTABLISHING A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, and a business relationship with the telemarketer caller exempts the telemarketer from the do not call list rules and it makes any subsequent calls to you from that telemarketer totally legal. Additionally, telemarketers sell and trade good phone lists often with other telemarketers, so once you get on one telemarketer database list, you will soon be on many lists. So, just push TALK, then quickly push OFF, and be pleased with yourself that you have cut off an illegal call. This process treats the call as if they have reached a disconnected or blocked number, and on some automatic caller databases, if you are lucky, your number may be removed from that list as being no good. QUICKLY DISCONNECTING A TELEMARKETER CALL, It is the very best that you can do. Just think, if everybody did this, the telemarketers would never sell anything, right? And the telemarketers might just go out of business!
I did not answer, they left no message, I called back, dialing *67 on my cell phone to turn off my Caller ID, got a message from Verisimilitude that the number has been changed or disconnected. Obviously a spoofed number. Spam.
First of all, on this number, everyone should know that no number begins with the number 1 -- the number 1 is exclusively used to get a long distance line. Everyone should be really suspicious of this kind of number, and the telemarketer must think that everyone in the USA is really stupid not to realize this.
Wise up people -- it must be true that America has way too many guiilable, dumb, or stupid people, or people who just do not care. The telemarketers know this and they are reaping income from these ignorant people. Of course, the most of us who hate telemarketers are the ones who suffer daily with this illegal activity. You cannot do anything about spammers and telemarketers calling you and they all know it --- and the government is useless and will not do anything to stop these continual law-breaking calls. The do not call list is useless, I get 10 - 12 telemarketer calls daily, many more since renewing my phone numbers on the do not call list. Where do you think that the telemarketers get the good numbers to call? Like YOUR number? Robo calls just go down numbers automatically, in numerical order, with no regard as to whose number it is or if the number the robo is calling is on any do not call list. But other telemarketers, mainly those who have a live person on the other end waiting for you to answer, these telemarketers get your number FROM THE DO NOT CALL LIST, OF COURSE! Telemarketers are provided the Do Not Call Lists and are supposed to remove these numbers from their database. But the telemarketers know that the numbers on the Do Not Call List are all good numbers and the telemarketers also know that nothing will be done to them for calling all of the Do Not Call List numbers, so they persist. The phone companies will do nothing to stop the telemarketers either --- it is big revenue for the phone companies. The phone companies are just as much at fault for this mess as is the FCC and the telemarketers themselves. And everybody knows that Congress is totally useless at anything. Reporting a telemarketer call number to the FCC will not accomplish anything either, the FCC will just ignore you. There is nothing that you can do to stop any of these illegal and annoying calls except to utilize your own devices and methods, and this is not much. But you do not have to fall into the telemarketer's net. Whenever I get a call that I do not recognize the calling number or name (if displayed) in my caller ID, what I do is to quickly push the talk button on the phone then immediately push the OFF button to cut them off. DO NOT ANSWER your phone with a hello, you are just confirming that the telemarketer has reached a good number. Just press talk then press off quickly. The telemarketer will be charged for the call, and all you will be out will be the time it takes you to push talk then quickly push off, albeit the call is still annoying --- or if you do not have one of those phones, pickup the receiver then quickly press the hang up button. If you do not have caller ID, well, you are out of luck, you will have no idea who is calling, and the more calls you answer from these bums, the more calls that you will be getting. Blocking calls does not work well either because these telemarketers change and spoof their numbers and names often. Many of the telemarketers use local numbers that have been disconnected as if that disconnected number were their own. Whatever you do, DO NOT CALL THE NUMBER BACK, because, again, you are just confirming that the telemarketer reached a good number and your phone number will be added to the telemarketer's list as being good and they will then persist in calling you often. If you do answer and ask them to remove you because you are on the do not call list, they will become rude and scoff at you and call you more often. If you fall for the number press game when answering a telemarketer automatic call, for example when instructed to press 1 for service, press 2 to disconnect, or press 3 to be removed from their call list, you are again confirming to them that your number is a good number and that you will answer the phone. DO NOT CALL THEM BACK -- if you do call them back, this could constitute that YOU ARE ESTABLISHING A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, and a business relationship with the telemarketer caller exempts the telemarketer from the do not call list rules and it makes any subsequent calls to you from that telemarketer totally legal. Additionally, telemarketers sell and trade good phone lists often with other telemarketers, so once you get on one telemarketer database list, you will soon be on many lists. So, just push TALK, then quickly push OFF, and be pleased with yourself that you have cut off an illegal call. This process treats the call as if they have reached a disconnected or blocked number, and on some automatic caller databases, if you are lucky, your number may be removed from that list as being no good. QUICKLY DISCONNECTING A TELEMARKETER CALL, It is the very best that you can do. Just think, if everybody did this, the telemarketers would never sell anything, right? And the telemarketers might just go out of business!