A woman has called twice this week, from 435-893-0167 and 435-893-0169. Both times, Caller ID said "Vision Comm" The woman started by saying she isn't selling anything but is conducting a survey. First call- I said I wasn't interested and she asked if I got their letter. (I don't know, it's junk mail.) She persisted. I asked to be removed from their list and she agreed.

Woman called tonight with exact same opener. I told her I had asked to be taken off their list a few days ago and she acted surprised, then tried to get to her survey again. I got mad, and this call didn't end with a civil "good night" like last time.

We are unlisted, so if they really did send a letter, I wonder if they linked our phone and address from buying phone comany records. I don't know. Just seems very shady to me.

I too keep getting calls from this number...i did a search from another site for this number....the result is the number is from Utah...i do not know is the name it is listed is the current owner if as you say, it is conducting a survey.

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Let the machine pick up and no message was left.  I also have the number on do not call list.  I just love this message board.

They called this afternoon about 4:30 PM.  I let the machine pick up and they hung up without leaving a message.  The caller ID read "Vision Comm" but if you follow this link:

http://www.knpanel.com/

you will see that this is one of the phone numbers used by a survey company call KnowledgePanel.  I have my phone on the do-not-call list but in their ad they make a big deal not just of the fact that they obtain their phone numbers by simply dialing at random so even an unlisted number is no defense, but also that when the government created the Do-not-call list, they intended it to control telemarketers but that they deliberately allow survey companies to bypass the list because of the "importance" of research (including "government" research).

They claim that they do not conduct phone surveys but use the phone canvassing to randomly build teams who answer various short surveys on the web for compensation.  Sounds like a crock to me -- even if the phones were dialed randomly, putting together teams of people who not only did not avoid their phone calls but who are willing to have their opinion bought does not  strike me as a random sampling -- the data is already skewed by virtue of the fact that all respondents already have two significant factors in common.  That might not be significant but it seems fishy to me.  Besides, if they were really dialing at random, how is it that several of the calls reported here indicated that they asked for someone by name?  Did they choose the random numbers first and then somehow looked up the owners of those phones?  Like I said -- it sounds fishy.

- Les