I get this every so often. Thanks "Pissed" for the information. It says Town and Contr on my caller ID.
With no previous business relationship with them, I would say they were breaking the law. People got balls man. Or it just shows how little the FCC gives a [***]. I've filed probably 20 complaints over the past 10 years...never heard back regarding one of them.
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Do you actually expect them to send out the neighborhood dog catcher to your home? The FCC and the FTC go after the big scofflaws, not small-time operators.
Here is what you can expect to happen if you file a complaint at http://www.donotcall.gov :
"What happens to my complaint?"
"Do not call complaints will be entered into the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel system, a secure online database available to more than 1,000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies. While the FTC does not resolve individual consumer problems, your complaint will help us investigate the company and could lead to law enforcement action."
From the web page "National Do Not Call Registry" at
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry
One thing you might do is investigate whether your state also has a DNC registry. Often state laws are less lenient towards telemarketers and state attorneys general are more eager to take up your cause in situations like this.
You might also try to take action yourself, if you are able to find out who it was that was actually calling. If you are going to do that, I suggest you contact an attorney and do it quickly because some statutory damages in some situations are only available if you take quick action. And there are some attorneys out there who will take cases solely for the statutory amount of attorney's fees that you are allowed to collect directly from some defendants. This is great for you if you are covered by such a law, because the attorney's fees are provided as additional damages over and above any statutory and/or actual damages that you may also be entitled to.
But don't go cursing the FCC. They already have enough to do, and in case you haven't noticed, they have gone without a full slate of commissioners for quite a while due to Washington politics. Moreover, their staffing levels are the lowest they have been in some 30 years, and the effects of sequestration have yet to be fully absorbed.
See, for example, http://mnarc.org/news/2013/03/the-cuts-at-the-fcc-are-beginning/ .
What is the point of registering every five years with the national do not call registry? People like these call me every day. . Normally, I do not pick up numbers I don't recognize, but found that if I do and get a live person, I politely ask that they take my number off their list. And, they do.Today, Town & Country called. Unfortunately, I was not able to get to the phone in time. If they are trying to sell me something, they are clearly breaking the law and I will tell them so if they call again.