Feb 24, 2013
Received a call from this number at 8:50 pm. Even for a non-profit, that's cutting it close to the 9pm deadline imposed by the FCC. Furthermore, if it is the North Shore Animal League, I've told them previously I am not interested in donating but they still continue calling, as if hoping I might sustain a brain injury and forget I told them I'm not interested or they think they can wear me down. This time, because I didn't recognize the number, I didn't say anything when I picked up the phone and the call quickly disconnected. (I also use this tactic for calls I know will have a prerecorded message, like that eternally annoying Google placement scam. When the system doesn't hear anyone on the other end, it usually hangs up instead of playing its stupid message. It doesn't stop them from calling again and again - they're going to do that anyway - but it spares me from having to listen to their nonsense.)
I have 'blacklisted' numbers from the North Shore Animal League (or whatever it's called) but they seem to keep calling from new numbers, which puts them in the spam column in my book.