I, like the rest of you, receive these calls all the time. Our government is WORTHLESS, especially when it comes to blocking these calls. Your only other course of action is this:
Do NOT, under any circumstances, answer a caller you do not recognize. When you do, all you are doing is confirming for them is that they have reached a viable, working number and then they WILL call you back PLUS they will sell your number to other scam artists so they can call you too. If they continue to call then first, check with your phone service and see if they have a call blocker service (mine does). If I continue to receive calls from a certain number then it goes onto my "Blocked" list.
Also, just pressing 1 or any number they say to remove you from their list is also a scam. It doesn't work either. Also, I turn off my answering machine when I am home. If it answers them, then once again it only confirms the fact that they have indeed reached a "Working" number and they WILL continue to call you. Have a pleasant day. Sure am glad too for websites like this.
Thought for the day: I Wonder what would happen if everyone stopped answering these calls. IF they got no more answers then would they just give up and die ?
I will add that by using these tactics, there are days now when I have NO MORE phone calls from scammers! Only had one in the last three days now. Please folks, don't answer these phone calls. Use your caller ID's.
These calls are getting to be too much. This is a do not call phone, but what does that do for you when they keep calling even when you tell them not to???
I agree with everything you said, and I don't answer any call with an area code I don't know or a number that is new to me. If it's my area code and I don't know the number I call back because the jerks on the phony calls won't accept calls. And the government is just worthless about these types of things but that's a different story for another time.
As you know by now, DO NOT CALL is a joke. Follow the money. If this were a serious program these scammers would be out of business in short order. DO NOT CALL affects only the legitimate.
The sad part is that there are enough unfortunates taken in so that it is profitable for the scammers.