I understand, restaraunt service is a tough business. They can't hide behind a telephone halfway across the country, it's face to face with every person every day. If every person I talk to despises telemarketers then why is telemarketing considered such a lucrative business?? It doesn't add up!!
You are so right..
We, in the US, pay a lot of taxes for ineffective FTC to put up a DO NOT CALL list that doesn't work. The loser "companies" that spoof their numbers are as bad as the Chinese spammers who offer Viagra misspelled from 100 different names you don't know.
Funny how they can find you if you don't pay your taxes or they want to find you within 3 meters of your cell phone signal but can't push an unsympathetic company like ATT to create a block list or a spam button to press so that these idiots can't use the major carriers.
O'bama is turning over the oversight of the Internet to 3rd world nations. That'll be a good thing for VOIP spoofing. :)
I get a call from this number about twice a day now for the past 2 weeks. He asks for an old manager and I say he doesn't work here anymore. The caller asked me my name I didn't answer but rather I asked who he was with, but he kept butting in and just asking what my name was. Then he said he was going to report me!!?? I said I am very successful when I report things to the FCC. He hung up. Now he calls and there is silence for a bit and he will ask for the old manager again - I start singing badly into the phone... He keeps calling though..
It's a magic jack number, which I have at home and the number I was given was for a city 2 hrs away - which is fine because it is only to keep in touch with my children. This is in response to the person who posted he knew the number was NY, NY - not sure if this helps.