Just received a call from this number.It came up on my television screen. I never answer any calls that I'm not familiar with. No message left on my answering machine so assume that is not legitimate. It came up showing UTILITIES FL.
Do you enjoy replying to a 6-month old post?
Does it warm your innards to argue?
Exactly how is the DNC list a joke?
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.
The FTC penalizes organizations located in the USA that violate DNC provisions, but only if those organizations are identified!
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!
Forget the complaints to anyone. It will not help. The companies that sell thousands of blocks of numbers to scammers/telemarketers also slip (wink –wink; nudge-nudge) money to your elected officials to keep this industry going and will never do anything to control or stop it.
Buy a call blocker (go online and search) or just ignore calls unless it’s someone you know or they leave a legitimate message.
Do not use a loud whistle or air horn to discourage them. All this will do is p*iss them off and they could retaliate by spoofing your number as their caller ID. You won’t appreciate the recipients of their scams calling back to b i t c h at you.
This is our new world and we have to live in it and adjust accordingly. If you have seniors in your family, help them deal with this. Never call back one of these numbers. If it’s offshore (e.g. Jamaica) you may get hit with serious charges on your bill.
Forget the do not call list. It only applies to legitimate businesses.
Our next problem will be when the techno-geeks create a device to outwit call blockers. Ain’t life grand.