Caller ID said "SOMERVILLE, MA". I picked up/hung up w/o answering because I've been getting as many as 8 calls daily hawking 'lower electric rates' and 'free solar panels'. Have gotten over 350 of them in less than 13 months. Hope I didn't hand up on one of my Boston doctors! Not really expecting a call from them today. Anybody else getting calls from this #? Not much info comes up in a search.
Went ahead and called it with my cell, using *67 first to hopefully block my number to them (not sure if that works with cells or just landlines.) Got a recording saying "We called you to participate in a survey about current events. If we disturbed you, we sincerely apologize. To have your number removed from our database, press '7' now." I hung up. Hoping they will not call my cell now; they called the landline this PM. Note they did NOT give out THEIR BUSINESS NAME nor WHAT current events nor WHOM they are working for. Suspect another KOCH BROTHERS ploy.
It was a recording from the Massachusetts Teachers Association about upcoming legislation/ballot initiative (or similar, I can't remember) regarding the proposed increase in charter schools. They called me twice this afternoon - the first time they didn't leave a message, the second time I decided to pick it up and the recording started before I even said anything.
I just wish they would either leave a message on my answering machine or use their own name on the caller ID, otherwise they are behaving just like the numerous telemarketer scammers.
We also got this pre-recorded MTA msg call today. It tells us to 'press one to be directly connected to your state legislature' but does not give us an option to 'opt out' of these calls. Thought that was illegal. Even Political calls are supposed to have an option to tell them to "STOP CALLING" according to DNC rules, right? Not only that, but if I did 'press 1" would I then be charged a long distance call even though THEY called ME?