May 19, 2009
This call came in on my hard wired land line as "Unknown". People here say it's Fidelity Investments.
This call came in as "Out of Area". My research showed that the call originated in Covington, KY and the phone number was issued by Teleport Communications Group, Inc out of Ohio which was a small start-up company in the 1980's that has since been acquired by ATT.
I don't know who is placing this call because when I called it back I got the standard recording that said the number was disconnected or is no longer in service, etc.
If the government isn't going to close the loophole in the Do Not Call law allowing companies we do business with to bother us, I wish they would at least amend the law to mandate that the companies who avail themselves of this loophole and/or any agent or third party under contract to them be required to display the company name, in this case Verizon Wireless.
The use of "Out of Area" or "Unknown" or simply a blank where the name should be, should trigger an immediate fine when reported to the Do Not Call gov't site by someone on the Do Not Call list.
Maybe the gov't could apply the fines to pay down some of the massive national deficit that 8 years of a one party, irresponsible government created for us, our children and grandchildren. And, yes...I'm proud to say did not vote for any of those A**holes in 2000 or 2004.