FTC & FCC need to go after the SERVICE PROVIDERS for anyone using telephone & internet or wireless devices to harass citizens. Our Government needs to enact and enforce laws to hold telecommunications service providers as "accomplices" to crime.  We ALL need to contact our U.S. Representatives & Senators and demand legislation to STOP fraudulent scamsters from harassment by telephone!
If we ALL contact our Senate & Congressional Representatives and demand their involvement, there may be hope for containing this growing nuisance! CALL YOUR LEGISLATORS every time you get nuisance calls! Flood THEIR phone lines!
p.s. Sellers of "spoofing" software need to be shut down and punished with stiff fines &/or other deterrants (prison).

Clearly, people are fed up with these scammers. But why should we let them cause us to lose our voice (by yelling at them) or temper? Some of us chose to get a call blocker so we won't be bothered by them and hopefully, they will be bored like the  Maytag repairman in those old TV commercials. Alternatively, we could have some fun with them and make every day they try to scam us a very, very miserable day for them. All we need to do is to pretend that we're actually giving out our credit card numbers (just make up some numbers that begin with a 4 or a 5). Then all of a sudden, start laughing at them. They're too used to people swearing at them, but when we laugh at them, they feel hurt because they think they have something I never thought they had in the first place (i.e., pride).

I'm amazed that it has taken this long for them to contact me...I'm usually closer to the top of the list.
Not to worry - we have had the ENTIRE 205 area code blocked for some months now.
Our phones do not ring and our home is not disturbed when a blocked area code or number calls in.
Currently, we have nearly 150 area codes blocked + hundreds of phone numbers.  We have found that blocking entire area codes is the way to go.  When you block an entire area code potentially, you block 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 phone numbers. Should you have friends or family in a blocked area code, simply add them to you "invite" list.  Problem solved!
Please purchase a call blocking phone or a device that can block entire area codes - these device work and they are inexpensive.

Nice to hear about someone being proactive. Not for everyone, but I have 999 out of the 1000 possible area codes blocked. Just my own is open. Then in my area code I have certain prefix blocked & as sure as Santa & his elves sing 'Silent Night', it is. Thanks for your post & yes, you have the right idea.

robocall from 205-409-0895 caller ID said "CONSUMER SVCS" Monday 12-15-14 @ 256 PM.

phone rang twice and I picked up and said "Hello." There was just dead air then a sound like 'plink'
and then a message said "Good Bye."

they must be either disconnecting if i do not answer after one ring or they are changing their approach with calling me
because of my "SCAMMER AIRHORN."