If you have an answering machine, you can outfox these predators. Record Special Information Tones (see the attached url to hear them) at the beginning of your outgoing message. This tells anyone using an autodialer that the number is out of service. A real person won't care, but then they have to listen to you tell them off. I've used these tones for the past few years and the number of telemarketing calls has dropped. I sincerely hope it helps other people to avoid these pests.
Just got a call - about 1:20 pm on Tuesday - didn't pick up; no message left; I'm in Victoria BC Canada;
Don't know if it was a different number, but a few weeks ago I got a call on a Sunday morning and it was an automated call about a "political survey" and a 2-day trip to Bahamas. I hung up. I seem to be getting these types of calls quite often.
These losers are calling the Yukon Territory in northern canada as well. Didn't answer it, no msg left. A week ago I got the automated msg about a 20 second political survey followed by a free cruise. What a deal! Just for a joke I stayed on the line to do the survey, intending to give them a fake credit card for their 'cruise' just to mess them up. But the line hung up on me. Oh well.
Didn't recognize the number (the 9999 part looked pretty fishy as well) so left the ans machine take the call. No response - hang up!
Am in MB. Canada and am on the Do not call list.