This number keeps calling my land-line in the late morning and around supper time. No name came up on my ID, so I figured it was a telemarketer.I traced the number back to Hollywood, Florida. I tried calling number back and the recording said "Please stay on the line, and a Agent will be right with you." After two minutes of hearing the same message, it just hung up on me. I called back again, and the same thing happened. I'm on the National Register Do Not Call List, and called to check to make sure my number was still listed on it, and it was. I have noticed I've been getting alot of no name calls lately, but the punishment for these companies for reporting them are just a slap on the wrist that's why they keep doing it.
The Do Not Call list works because it is the law that telemarketers must buy the list and screen out any number that's on it. That's why you don't get calls from reputable telemarketers any more. The callers who show up on 800 Notes are scammers looking to separate you from your money by trickery, not by selling you a legitimate item or service. Since their whole operation is criminal anyway, breaking one more law doesn't bother them a bit. So they ignore the DNC list.
Anyone old enough to remember before the DNC law was passed will know how well it works! The phone used to ring all day long with vacuum cleaner salesmen, travel agents, everything you can think of. Then it got blissfully quiet until technology enabled the scammers to begin calling from overseas with faked US numbers that show on the caller ID. Even if they can find them, they're beyond the reach of US law, so there's nothing anyone can do.
Don't blame the government or the DNC list, blame the phone companies for allowing caller ID numbers to be spoofed so easily!