This is a professional fund raiser calling on behalf of a purported Children's Cancer Charity. They asked if they could send an envelope along and if I could drop a few dollars into it and return it to them. They said that it was to help children who have cancer. In looking at this charity on Charity Navigator it seems that only about 3% of proceeds actually go to fund charitable activities. The rest goes to the professional fund raiser and overhead. Be warned!
When I told the caller that I would not give to a "charity" that allocates so little for actual charitable causes she said that she understood and hung up.
We got a call from this number again at 7:04 pm yesterday, 17 Apr 2014, a week since their last call. As I wrote previously, it has been blocked since last year. The caller ID hasn't changed: CHILDRENS CANCE. This alleged charity is persistent or perhaps they are just slow learners.
You (and others) are in error. The DNC has indeed cut down on a vast number of calls from legitimate, law-abiding companies. However, no government can stop scammers and spammers and certain calls are exempt from the DNC list. The DNC list is actually so effective that I automatically know that nearly every call I get on my private, DNC-listed phone is a scam artist, which is actually helpful because I'm mentally prepared before I answer the call. In fact, I'm SO prepared that if the call turns out to be legitimate, I'm momentarily taken by surprise.
This number called my phone today at 1331 hours. As it had been entered into my call blocker previously, their call did not get through. Even if they were a good, legitimate charity, I do not contribute over the phone so they're barking up the wrong tree.