"and it gave me option to press 1 to be removed from list and not get any more calls so i did"
Won't work! Just like with all the other phone scams ... it only informs them they got a live number and two things will happen. 1) The calls not only will continue but increase, and 2) they will pass your number on to other scam artists and it will begin anew!
This is NOT a survey (3-4 questions/30 seconds? Not enough questions to actually collect data), it's a FAKE survey/a scam, this is NOT a political call, this is NOT about any real cruise ("free"? Come on now, it's never free. You'll probably wind up paying MORE than you normally would if you got it!), what this is is a SCAM!!! These lowlifes are using the survey ploy to get around FTC/NDNC Registry laws to make their illegal calls!!!)
Thanks for the new number btw. Although like this and all the others these scumbags use it's also most likely spoofed, so blocking it will do no good : (
They go by "Political Opinions of America"/"EFA Research" but they are nothing of the sort! They also have fraudulantly claimed to be an IT firm calling and also as EFG Research:
"About ESG
IMPORTANT NOTE: A company using the name “ESG Research” is soliciting customers to take a phone survey to win a trip to the Bahamas. That is NOT Enterprise Strategy Group. We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced, but ESG does NOT engage in these practices.
Message from the Founder "
Please take note of the above. Also ...pressing a number, returning or answering a 'call', asking to be taken off their 'list' only confirms they have an actual number; they have two practically identical fake sites up in order to make themselves look legit ... they are not. The form on both sites to have them stop calling is also a ploy to confirm a live number! There's even a lawsuit against them for another fraud attempt by them as well:
Would love to know how to get off this terrible list,,I have asked to be removed so many times it is frustrating,have told them I will report them,,,they hang up.This has been going on for months and months.