Its ILLEGAL to ask for money to receive it:
Prize Offers: You Don’t Have to Pay to Play!
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/telemarketing/tel17.shtm
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/scam-alerts
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0076-telemarketing-scams
http://www.usa.gov/
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https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/us-and-jama ... marketing-fraud
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-d6612247e5044ba/ ... ral-georgia-usa
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0119-jam ... ng-us-consumers
http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/us-and-jamai ... marketing-fraud
Where to file complaints:
Project Jolt (see the articles above)
To file complaints on Foreign company's and scams:
https://www.econsumer.gov/#crnt
eConsumer.gov: Report Your Complaint
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-d20d86fdc3e145c/reporting-international-scams
http://www.stopfraud.gov/report.html
http://www.fraud.org/
Consider getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $40.00 or so. If its a cell phone, some already have call blocking, if not, there are free apps on the web that will work for some. You can google this. If you have a smart phone, there is a free app called call control. Iphones appear to have apps also. Another one is called Mr. Number. For tracfone & straight talk:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id ... .tracfone&hl=en
http://extras.straighttalk.com/en
http://www.youmail.com/home/carriers/straight-talk/block-number
https://www.straighttalkwirelessforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6803&t=55006
For text messages: forwarding any text message spam you get to the short code “7726,” which spells “spam” on most phones, to alert your network operator to the abuse. ATT won't accept 7726 But they will accept BLOCK and return a message that the web site is blocked. forward the texts to 7726 or BLOCK, depending on your phone carrier.