Yes, you can stop the calls! I received one, sometimes up to three calls a day from Canadian Pharmacy using this and a dozen other numbers. for over 3 years until I finally fought back! Here's the secret: Their computer makes tens of thousands of calls a day, routed through different numbers all over the country, only connecting you to a salesperson when you say "hello". At the first sign of negativity, they simply hang up. It costs them nothing! You will never get off the automated call list until you order something.
So DO IT! Be sure to ask lots of questions, change your mind several times, haggle on price. Then give them your address, email and credit card number (all fake!). The first time I kept the woman on the phone for 45 minutes. After she ran the fake card number (always use the correct first 2 digits), she desperately tried to call me 10 times a day for 3 days. Finally I answered and told her the credit card was canceled and gave her another. 3 more days of calling with no answer and it all stopped - for 3 months!!
I repeated the process, this time saying I had no credit card and was in the middle of switching bank accounts. After an hour on the phone fielding my stupid repeat questions and placing a $200 order, he sent instructions (to a fake email) on how to pre-pay using Western Union. He called 10 times a day for a week to figure out why they hadn't gotten the money before it all stopped again. 3 months later, here they come again. No biggie. I'm starting to enjoy this!
They make their money by selling to one of every 10,000 calls. It takes only a tiny percentage of fake orders to waste enough time for their entire marketing strategy to go bust. The salespeople get frustrated, make no commissions and quit. The company spends $1000 training another replacement. Their phone banks are stalled taking orders that only cost them money. Try it, its fun!
Put them out of business - REPOST THIS FOR EVERY NUMBER THEY USE
I just received a call from a woman saying that she was from Windows 7 Support and asked me to check my computer. She even gave me a CLISD number that would be exclusive to my computer and to check it to make sure she was legimate. She told me that I could unplug my internet and that I would be safe? With all the scams going around, I did not trust her and said I would have a technician look at my computer rather than to let her show me where any files were located and how to delete them. She sounded very convincing until I did a reverse look up on her number only to find out that it was definitely a scam - a new twist to the old scams. I am aware of the scams and don't usually listen to them but I did today and found out that they can be quite convincing.
3 weeks ago I returned home (to Switzerland) from a trip to the USA. Ever since I received calls from this number over my cell phone, which I stopped in the meanwhile by barring all calls originating from the U.S. for the moment.
I believe that some companies like car rentals or hotels in the U.S. are selling their customer information such as phone numbers or E-Mail addresses to interrested parties (as is common practice here in Europe) despite laws against unfair practices.
In the future, I shall state a phone number like 123-456 7890 and a trash mailbox address whenever possible.
Called me today. I never answer unless I have my "Phone Tray Free" hooked up. You can google it. It is a software package that allows you to use your computer's modem to handle/block nuisance calls - only caveat is that you must have a phone cord connected to your computer and the software running in order to block calls. But if you get a call when you don't have your computer connected, you can add the nuiance number in manually later.