DoNotCall, doesNOTwork! After all these years of getting the same calls over & over again and eveyone saying "but I'm on the DNC list" and sending in complaints to DNC, but yet NOTHING ever happens, try the steps below.
At least TRY to stop the calls yourself. Here are easy 1,2,3 steps to take.
1) Buy a Home phone with Call BLOCKING functions and use it. Maybe as these types of phones start flying off the shelves in record numbers and the phone manufacturers see the demand for them, they'll make even more of them and give the ability to Block even more numbers in them.
2) Call your local Phone Company & see if they have a Call Blocking service. If so, sign up for it!
3) On Cell Phones, put the number into your Contacts under SCAM or whatever, and then SET the Ringtone to NO RING or SILENT!
Ta da! They won't ever be able to ring through and bother you again. If you see them in your Cell phone List and you hadn't even known they ever called, CONGRATULATIONS!! You have now fixed it yourself!
Do NOT ever call them back, even if it seems like an innocent Recording that says 'this is a non-working number' or whatever.
Do NOT bother telling them to put you on their 'Don't call list'. Guess what? They don't really have one! And seeing they're calling ILLEGALLY in the first place, don't waste your breath.
Do NOT talk to them at ALL, just HANG UP!
BLOCK them, and go on with your life.
If you're worried that it could be a Legitimate company trying to contact you, then wouldn't you think they'd have your Address and you'd have gotten a letter from them??
P.S. NEVER call back a number listed on a questionable letter, either! ALWAYS look it up yourself and be sure you're calling the REAL company, not just any old number given to you in a letter!!!!!!! And don't contact the email address they give you, either!!!
It's a Felony to send anything through the U.S. mail that's bogus, but by the time you've called the number that they listed, or logged onto a website they gave you, and given them all your personal info. to supposedly 'verify that it's really You', - they've already stolen your Identity and your Bank account money, etc.!! By the time you figure it out, your wallet is emptied, and you can complain to the Feds all you want..... but by then your Identity and money is long GONE!