Called my home phone number while I was out. ID display shows only "Charlotte, NC" and 704-837-1316. No message left on answering machine. Am also on the NC and National Do Not Call registers.
Called at 8:20 AM. Guess they get up early. ID said "CF O America. I did not answer. I think signing up for Do Not Call WAS a good idea but obviously most companies now know how to get around it.
Cancer Fund of America. Pitching for donations so hard they talked over my answering machine outbound message for a full 10 seconds when I screened the call.
Called today, and when the telemarketer paused to get me to consent to her info send, I politely informed her that my family and I do not donate to unsolicited charity requests. She immediately started her pitch again!
When she had to pause again, I was angry, and informed her that NO, she was NOT to list us as being donors, and told her it was insulting that she didn't even listen to a word I had just said. She paused - and tried AGAIN! I told her NO, and hung up the phone. This was almost as bad as the folks calling on behalf of the police family charities, years ago. We have been on the DNC call list for quite a long time.
Get a free software called PhoneTray. Hook a nearby phone line to your computer's "Phone In" input. You can hook up the phone to the "Phone Out" or leave it empty. This software will let you add any number to it on the fly to block future calls after one ring, and it will play one of 8 messages or so, most sounding realistically like phone co. recordings saying the number is not in service, for example. You can block ALL 800 numbers, and any number as it comes in. You can also set it to not ring your phone at all between, say the hours of 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. Google "PhoneTray Free". It's worth it.