Annoying!  2 calls yesterday.  Did not answer.  Added to my spam list.

Several calls from this #, annoying.

Generally speaking, if you all get a call - with caller ID displaying an unfamiliar # or an out of state # - NEVER ANSWER THE CALL.  Don't let curiosity - which the con artist banks on - get you.  If they don't leave a message, you can bet your life's savings that they are a scammer, a predatory tele-marketeer or the like.  If you want to win the war on these scumbags, the best strategy is PASSIVE AGGRESSION.  Make them work!  I always block the caller.  If I don't have enough block space, I'll delete an old criminal # to replace it with a new criminal #.  Guess what?  We live in a world where the cyber criminal thinks the world is his or her oyster to take the pearl from at their choosing.  But you can beat them back psychologically by (1) NEVER ANSWERING THE PHONE and (2) PUTTING THEM ON A BLOCK LIST IMMEDIATELY.  If by chance the caller is a good call - say a friend with a new number you don't recognize - then the caller will leave a friendly message and you will recognize their voice to boot. Just be aware and you will never be bothered and you will take delight in thwarting them.  I laugh at them daily because the cyber criminal is essentially a stupid, mutant human being. Take delight in empowering yourself with their defeat.

Called back and rec'd automated phone message that it was a sales call and if I wanted to get off call list, to hit "1" "at anytime during" the automated sales offer.

971-220-1017

Well, it's another new year and this new parasite, as well as the usual old parasites have begun calling me long distance (this one, probably just an old leech utilizing a different telephone number from the Pacific Northwest - OR) to my 'for emergency only use' private cell phone number...pfft! This unsolicited caller has called my cellphone repeatedly since just before 7AM this morning? After reading similar notes from others here, as well as performing a numbers search, I've now confirmed this number to be a Verified SPAMMER!

I do not answer calls from numbers not listed in my phone's 'Contact List', but instead, I add them as a Verified SPAMMER to it, so that I'll know that such 'bogus' calls are to be ignored in the future. In addition, I never respond to nor return these calls, especially using the "press 1 to be removed" feature, as all types of calls like these are all just simply SCAMs and these types of 'grifters' obviously 'don't play by the rules' anyway. Calling them back or picking-up the call only shows them that you are in fact a 'live' number. I ignore these calls so that maybe after several rings/unanswered calls, parasites like these might hopefully and eventually drop my number from their 'Who To Try and SCAM Today' list.

BTW, don't believe the 'trolls' that tell you that you must have unknowingly signed-up at one time or another with the SPAMMERs, as I sometimes wonder if these people are in fact legitimate posters at all? I have never listed my cellphone number anywhere nor with anyone and I do not use it to call anybody...except for emergency purposes only; i.e., medical, fire, and law enforcement; therefore, I'm assuming that SPAMMERs like these have 'tapped' into the various cell provider databases? In addition, I'm unsure if the Do Not Call List even works, as I’ve read a number of like responses across the internet from numerous citizens continually being plagued by SPAMMERs...yet they too have continually reported the numbers of unsolicited callers to the FTC religiously?