I just got a call from this #..ID says unknown caller. I get these various damn scam calls on my landline all day. I NEVER pick up, let the machine get it...they usually hang up. I was keeping a list of the numbers, but these same companies that are:(pick one) selling magazines, new credit, security systems, wanting/scamming your bank info, selling RX drugs, or whatever the scam of the day seems to be, have zillions of fake numbers from all over the country.
I worry that elderly people are taken in by all this crap
I DID manage to stop some of them THIS way: Pick up your phone, dial *60. Wait for the instructions. If you do this directly AFTER your recieve one of these calls, the recording will let you "block the last number". Otherwise, you have to ener the specific number you want blocked. However, it seems my phone company will only let me block 12 numbers in this way, and I've used up my 12. (LOL)
So, try this *60 idea. It doesn't always work for different companies, but it did for my landline company. You might want to Google *60 for more information. I plan on calling my company to see if there's any other way to block more numbers. I have a regional phone company in Texas/Oklahoma, so I don't know if AT&T or other larger ones have this available.
The DNC list is a HUGE JOKE!!!! Have you EVER heard of ANY company being fined by the DNC? I haven't!
Good luck!
Same problem here, but recently I've been trying something different. I'm usually very near my landline during the day, so when any call comes in I quickly look at the Caller ID. If I don't know the number, or it has no id, I'll pick it up after 2 rings and immediately hang it up, without letting it go to the answering machine. My theory, hope, is that maybe a computer system will think it's a bad number, rather than a legit number with an answering machine.
An important point that someone else on a similar site made: the Do Not Call list is probably working fairly well - think of the calls we might get if it wasn't in place. 99% of the these calls we complain about here are purely law-ignoring robo-calls, likely internet based. They flat don't care about the DNC and are just hoping the handful of gullible people, usually elderly, will answer and give up just enough info to make it worth their while. I read elsewhere that the FTC is offering a $50,000 prize for a system that will curtail or eliminate the robo-call problem. Good luck with that, as they say!