Caller ID showed OUT OF AREA,  left no message
RETURNED CALL using anonymizer: busy

Called me at 1539 hours today and they are conducting a survey to see who your voting for, why your voting for them, if your voting. Its none of your damn business I told the halfwit on the other end of the line and then I hung up on her. Caller ID shows up as Bettendorf Iowa. They called my house number which is a private unlisted number through Time Warner Cable.

Repeated calls, every few minutes, all day long. Most recently (it's 4:38 now) at 3:26,4:01,4:14,4:23,4:29, followed by a number noted to be from Indianapolis IN at 4:35. I haven't looked that one up yet.

Guy called asking for a member of our family specifically. ID'd himself as calling  from a "survey company" and said they'd call back.  I told him NOT to call back that no one was going to participate in a survey.  He told me I wasn't authorized to take the number off their list.  I told him I was the OWNER of the number and that yes he would remove it.  He said "I wish I could listen to you but I can't"  What a half wit.

Actually, he can't just "remove it" - if his company is using crappy autodialer software. Whoever owns that company probably doesn't allow it.

Federal law requires "survey companies" to put your number on their internal "Do Not Call" list after you tell them to do so. Therefore, logic dictates that when they call people, your number should not be on the list of numbers-to-call. But remember, you are arguing with people who don't care that they are infringing on your right to be left alone.

When you get calls in the future from anyone, ask them "Who's Calling?" and if they refuse to identify themselves, hang up. It's your phone and your right to decide who gets to call.