We joined centurylink. At the start of the month. We havent given our number to anyone but family and friends. Now we get calls from all sorts of 800 numbers. This being one of them! It comes up as AMVETS.
So I guess comcast and centurylink have been selling the numbers! Outrageous! if i didnt need internet for school i would tell them where they can stick it! We dont even answer out phones anymore. I paid extra to get caller ID so i wouldnt have to talk to these people. I just added our phone to the do not call registry. Hope it helps. If not I guess we just have to wait for the phone to stop ringing.

(2-10-11) Been receiving this call about every 2 weeks now. Have not answered call and caller leaves no voicemail. My understanding from all the informative posts on here, this caller is Soliciting on behalf of AMVET. This means any donation offered will be skimmed off the top by this Solicitor before it gets to the AmVet Organization. I suggest if you want to make a donation, go directly to the AmVets.org website, find the donation hyperlink, and email them to first see if they will receive the full donated amount. I found this email link: vwortz@amvets.org. You could probably get this "Third Party" Solicitor to stop calling your number by asking vworts@amvet.org.  At the same time, a friendly gesture of $1 to $5 would mostly likely confirm this request to be removed from all call lists administered by AMVET: Third Party, Supporters, Contractors, or otherwise. Never the less, they are suppose to honor your request no matter if you donate or not. Accordingly, you can ask your Service Provider (Like comcast, qwest, ect.) to stop giving or selling your "Personal Private Information" to Parties outside their Company(ies). This is called 'Opt Out'.  Most will respect your request in apprehension that you might go with another Service Provider.  When opening up new accounts with Service Providers, always ask to be "Opted Out" of transferring any personal information to Third Parties. Hope this helps!
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they hang up before I answer.  My answer machine is on.

Just switched to Comcast about a month ago, haven't given out this number to anyone, Got a call today from caller id AMVETS, I answered, He called me by my first name but there must have been connections issues because he didn't say anything else, and what old man knows my first name? seriously, so I hung up and looked it up. found these posts! Very helpful! thanks!

You guys are idiots lol.One person says one thing an you alll believe it. They can not an do not sell your info. Grow up an let people do there jobs.