This is not a live caller -- this is an infamous robotic voice used in *surveys* for a variety of different numbers -- usually with some sort of ultra-conservative agenda (I don't judge -- just stating facts). It's for a company called Life Choices, if I remember correctly. There have been multiple threads on this company, including one with a link to a very funny blog about someone who documented their experiences with this particular call. I searched but couldn't find the thread. At any rate, the bottom line is that it's a robo-call for some sort of survey company with unknown purposes that has been around for some time. Your best bet is just to hang up unless you want to have some fun with the *caller*. I don't judge, lol!
And F.Y.I., surveys and charities are exempt from DNC rules, even the shady ones that only nominally fit those categories. However (and someone please correct me if I'm interpreting the rules wrong), you can still report robocalls that don't lead to a live caller or give you the option of returning a call to a live person.
The FCC will not take a complaint regarding any phone scammer who robodials your number then neither leave any message nor talks. The State of NJ has made it harder to file complaints about DNC violations unless the complainant is able to drill down to the complaint form (found thru www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/telemarketers) and fill it out, then mail it in – all at your cost!
Roborectums know all that thus our elected legislators have basically blessed them to continue to annoy us. Not to mention that when the caller realizes he/she/it has been blocked, they either get a new number to call from or spoof another (many times an innocent) number.
To make things even worse, all phone providers profit by providing service to these scammers and won’t shut them down as it would be lost income for every phone provider who is aiding and abetting the illicit activity scammer.
Every phone provider easily knows these roboterrorists utilize their services just by monitoring the bandwidth and frequency of calls made from a single source. We, the recipients, are all victims of this crime and it’s high time to fight back – so if you actually talk to a human, identify them by asking for their address so you can send them a check, and then hang up. Use their mailing address on every postage paid postcard you find in magazines offering free insurance estimates, travel, magazine samples, etc. On the up side - this will help reduce the USPS debt.
Contact your legislators to stop the robocallers – send them a complaint every time you get a call. Tell them to stop the scumbags or you will elect someone who will as their inaction and total lack of regard for your wellbeing and privacy further aids and abets each robocaller.
The DNC law works only for honest callers. Federal and State laws need to be enacted to guide the phone providers in terminating the illegal roboactivity and phone scams – put the onus on the providers and not the honest users!
Also, why not sue the phone providers for their inaction to pull the plug on the phone terrorists? A fantastic class action suit awaits a great attorney team on this one, because it appears that neither Federal nor State authorities give a damn to protect us and openly permit the phone companies to continually profit from your life being interrupted.
Verizon’s Call Intercept service (a $9.99 per month ransom plus federal and local taxes) limits you to 25 numbers. So I use a Panasonic KX-TG6844 phone that can block 250 numbers. The cost of $111 paid for itself in a year and I dropped the Verizon intercept service extortion fee.
Many robocalls originate on the Verizon network and thru their subsidiary companies and affiliates such as Cellco. Of course, Sprint, Level 3, Cavalier, Embarq, T-mobile, and Cingular (to name a few) are also used providers. What if these scammers might even be related to phone company employees or worse yet ISIS to raise funds to support terrorism?
Finally, contact the Consumer Union (Consumer Reports) site www.EndRobocalls.org and sign their petition to pressure the phone companies and lobby the government. It won’t cost you a cent! July 2015 news articles indicate Verizon is going to screw us more during their attempt to deregulate communications services and fees which could cost us considerably more by buying into their anonymous call intercept useless service, etc.
There is no organized or legislative way to stop these calls. It is up to each of us to take our own actions to preserve our privacy and sanity. I have done so effectively in my life, but if I spell it out here as a public service, I have learned that such missive will be deleted, so I won't.
Ive gotten on average about a weeks worth of calls already. Averages about 1 a day so far. Thankfully I've got a call blocker capable of blocking several 100 area codes and works quite nice