Being from Texas, I sympathize, but did you miss the memo ? Corporate America has no ethics and has no customer service - greed is the only thing that drives corporate business - look at the reports on Bank of America - it has paid billions in fines for its actions before and after the financial meltdown on 2009, but the latest report I read less than a week ago says it has not changed its policies one iota - it just spends more time appealing to the upper crust customer - the Middle Class is just a bunch of dummies to be separated from their money any way possible. Go to the Consumers Union website and see how you can fight back - they are doing some good.
This scam was just on the news the other day. HANG UP and don't ask to be removed from their list; all that does is tell them they have a working number, which they will then sell to other scammers.
What I do is pick up the phone just long enough to connect the call, then hang up without a word. They don't get an answering machine; they don't get to post their spiel, and they get charged for the call. It works; sooner or later I drop off most lists (only to be added to new ones, alas).
Our government will never do anything about this, they make too much money from it. Corporate America has no ethics and has no customer service - greed is the only thing that drives corporate business - look at the reports on Bank of America - it has paid billions in fines for its actions before and after the financial meltdown on 2009, but the latest report I read less than a week ago says it has not changed its policies one iota - it just spends more time appealing to the upper crust customer - the Middle Class is just a bunch of dummies to be separated from their money any way possible. Go to the Consumers Union website and see how you can fight back - they are doing some good.
I wonder if all these scam calls are clogging up the NSA's phone call snooping data repository and adding stress to the software they use to cherry pick morsels of nefarious behavior from the recorded content? Maybe the answer lies somewhere in exploiting the NSA's snooping habits. Just answer these calls, get a live person and tell them point blank that you are not interested now or ever in joining a terrorist organization, you have no interest in blowing up buildings and to please stop calling. If the NSA is listening they just might go after these callers.