Call 793-847-8300 to complain about the Public Interest Communications Company directly and get your name removed from their list. They keep calling us - I say deluge them with calls. Here is my story:
I have been receiving the same aggravating calls. Today I picked up the phone on the second ring and got a recording saying "sorry we missed you." If you want your name taken off the list call us back. When you call back you get a recording asking for your phone number. This made me angry enough to search the companies website that is listed above. The Public Interest Communications Company does not evidently want you to call them. I did a websearch of their locations and found their "real" phone number
and spoke to a woman and told her how aggravating and inefficient their fund raising system is. I also told her I would be complaining to the group that released my information to them - Boston Symphony in the hopes that they will drop them as a contractor. Here is the website if anyone on this board wants to complain to a live human being -
http://www.secstate.wa.gov/charities/search_detail_cfr.aspx?cfr_id=248
Please please please, if anyone from Congress is reading this, do something to stop these automated solicitations. Every caller should be required to state up front which charity they're collecting for and give you the option at the beginning to be taken off their list. And there should be a requirement of the phone service providers that there be some device or other than will distinguish a cell phone from a land line so that these types of calls can be blocked. Cell phones are NOT supposed to get automated calls like this. But I get half a dozen at the very least a day. I've taken to putting them in my address book with nice names like YOUAGAIN, SCUM and NUISANCE so I can track how many of these calls I get. I'm running out of names and my "recent calls" box is full of this nonsense. I'm on the Do Not Call list. I've put my deceased father's name on the do not contact dead people list, which members of the Direct Marketing Association are supposed to follow, yet I still get tons of mail for him. So I'm beginning to wonder if anyone pays attention to these lists at all.