Called the number back and both times people with very thick Latin/ New York accents answered. I'm from New York but I no longer live there and haven't lived there for almost 19 years. I was told I must have an account with Liberty Electric Or con Edison.
Keep calling but I don't pick up. Very annoying. Gonna buy airhorn for the next time they or any telemarketer calls. That "Do Not Call" registry is a total [***] joke. It doesn't work.
These "people" had called since the end of May at least twice per day - until the day I'd had enough. Do Not Call registry is a joke, as John says above. I also do not pick up calls with numbers I don't recognize. I finally called THEM back over and over to see how they liked it, and every time I had absolutely no idea what they said. It was almost like it was not a real language. And I shouted, HUH, HUH, STOP CALLING PEOPLE, and they actually have stopped. Maybe it was a fluke, but after 4 weeks of annoyance, it has fully ended.
Legitimate telemarketers use it to prevent calls to registrants. Just think - if there were no such list, you would be getting calls from BOTH legitimate and scam "telemarketers".
The DNC list is NOT a call blocker! If you thought it was, you are very much mistaken.
The DNC list does not apply to charities, political calls, surveys, debt collectors or companies with which you did business in the last 18 months.
The DNC list is ignored by spammers and scammers, and those criminals usually use VOIP or burner phones, and cannot be easily traced. Kristi Thompson of the FCC explained that it can take her anywhere from five to ten subpoenas to trace a single robocall back to its origin
Is there ANY law that is 100% effective in preventing criminals from disobeying it?
The FTC penalizes organizations located in the USA that violate DNC provisions, but only if those organizations are identified! Have you done your part to identify your callers?
The DNC organization does not sell its list to non-registered telemarketers.
All this information, and more, is available on the DNC site, for those who have the cerebral capacity to read and understand. Apparently you do not qualify, but prefer to mislabel things that you do not understand.
If you want more protection than provided by the DNC list, get a call blocker app, device, or service, and learn how to use it correctly. Try a little self-responsibility!