When someone starts out lying about who she is representing I hang up and contact the boys over at the agency. They will be paying them a visit. Tick, tock.
I would like to make a recommendation to everyone. Don't answer any unavailable phone calls. In fact don't answer any phone calls, let them go to an answering machine. Monitor the call and tell friends and relatives that after leaving a message they should wait a moment for you to pick up. Also, and this is the most important, get yourself a phone that has both a digital ID annoucement and blocking ability. I did and it is the best thing I ever did. Once I realize I'm getting the same unavailable number calling I block it. It gives me great satisfaction for one thing to block these idiots.
I bought a Panasonic three-phone answering machine with these features, Model KX-TG9331T. It blocks up to 20 numbers. (I bought it over a year ago so there may be better ones on the market today.)
After I see the Unavailable number give up, I reuse the number for future blocks. Works great. You will need caller ID. Hope this helps. The Do not call list is a waste of time. And never email or contact these people.
Got a call from this phone number and it showed up on my caller ID as 714-551-5501AA which I thought was weird but answered anyway. There was alot of noise in the background and this man asked if there was a male in the household interested in movies since he was conducting a survey on movies. I said NO not interested, then asked if I was interested, if I went to the movies, and I said I'm not interested in the survey and I hung up... but before I hung up he was trying to keep me on the phone by saying it will only take a few minutes..
Obviously it's not a real survey, such idiots!! what a waste of our time!! people have nothing else to do than to make calls like this !!!
Got a call from this guy/company at 6:27 PM on January 18th, 2010. The caller ID came up as 'Out of Area.' Answered to have some guy asking if I would be interested in taking a movie survey. I told him I was not interested and would like to have my number removed only to have the guy rather rudely raise his voice and claim that he was not a telemarketer. I further insisted he remove me from their calling list only to have the guy immediately hang up. Called back and got some automated message about e-mailing some random address.
NO thanks. Not going to have even more spam in my email.