Answered to tell them to stop haunting me and got a nasty woman who said I obviously did not understand what they were offering. When I could not get her to stop talking (after repeatedly telling her to remove my name and number from their scam list) I just hung up. My advice is to ignore the calls no matter how annoying they are because you will not get anywhere in trying to get them to stop harassing you.............I would eliminate my landline but they call on my cell also!!!!
Zeeland MI showed up on the landlady's caller ID. She's an elder in her church and Zeeland is a devout community, but I seriously doubt she would have anything to do with anything in Michigan.
You can rant all you want, but the truth is the FCC DOES go after these scammers and scoff laws, IFF they can trace them. The problem is/was that these low lifes "spoof" their numbers, so they can't be traced. The $50,000 contest you mention was to find a way to either prevent "spoofing" or to track back through the 'spoofing' network to find the REAL caller.
If you want to get to the real source of the problem, you need to go after Bell Labs. They are the ones who created caller ID, and left the door open to spoofing. I suppose you could ask congress to pass legislation to make spoofing networks illegal, but that would require that the tea-baggers would have to get off their duffs and vote yes on something constructive.
Same BANK CARD SVCS called. I didn't answer and they didn't leave a message. i then blocked the number. CenturyLink only allows me 10 #'s that I can block so once I ghet to the limit I wait a week and then delete all the ones previously blocked and then start all over again. I have yet to get a repeat call from previously blocked #'s once unblocked. i think they get the blocked message and remove my # from their call list.
I would recommend all to call their phone provider and insist on call block technology or go to one who does provide the service.
Why CenturyLink limits the number of number I can block is a mystrey to me but may be restained by technology.