Need to stop calling. My phone number is on the national do not call list.

unwanted.. they've tried again, but I never answer.  Maybe their robo calling machine might get the hint that I don't care about whatever they're about, other than their calls are a total nuisance.

Don't know who it is. Called me 3 times in 2 weeks. Between my call blocker and google voice, they are always screened. They don't leave voicemails.

Hi people,

I am trying to organize a way to stop these unscrupulous people from calling
our "do not call" registered phones day and night. It costs us money, time,
and energy at a time that we as a nation have little or none of to spare.
We have to raise awareness of what's going on and stop them.

1) The reason that these people can call you while you're on the DO NOT CALL
registry is straight forward.  These people harassing you aren't in America
and aren't subject to any do not call regulations!  Well if they aren't in
America, how are they calling with domestic phone numbers you ask?  Major
USA telecom companies have reseller businesses where they resell VoiP phone
services to consumers all over the world and they use virtual phone numbers
that have American phone number exchanges. Why then are these American Telecom
companies providing these foreign people with phone services to harass American
consumers and use the services for illicit activities?  The truth is they're
not, in fact most of the major American Telecom companies aren't even aware of
who is using the services and what they're being used for as they're reselling
them to different foreign vendors who then sell the service to foreign consumers.

So the question then becomes, what are my options and what can I do to prevent this?
I have had some success using method #1 (below) and re-record your voice mail with
the VC_SIT tone to fool the autodialer.

2) Answering the phone, calling them back and pressing "1" to be removed only
confirms that they have a real person on the phone. I believe they have "war dialed"
or pilfered from social media, or in some cases stolen from the telco. If you've
answered or called back, they now know they have a real phone number and it only
makes you get targeted for more calls, I've managed to get a second phone on their
list via calling back from another line.

3) I found this http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com/ link which has an interesting
discussion on the topic of these scam calls. While it is specific for the Pacific
northwest, it does shed a light on a murky topic. Potentially, the telco equipment
used to do this is making the rounds and we need to keep after them.

4) Here is a growing list of the numbers they have used (spoofed). When I get another
call from an unfamiliar number, I immediately google that number and usually it is
here on this web site. I then know that I got called by another scam/telemarketer scum bag.

714-209-8684
801-533-9777
800-463-3339
603-214-3668
701-625-5008
701-625-5758
216-501-2998
901-268-4934
302-394-6888
810-232-0555
810-715-1369
810-238-6889
701-920-9647
701-920-9732
701-920-9871
701-920-9939
912-447-3244
865-292-0385
515-989-9889
438-876-4557
316-789-1356
731-256-3580
631-291-4014
505-369-1289
876-587-9183
702-418-1175
876-290-2766
865-291-1569
818-201-6758
503-902-8259
800-444-4444
201-305-5031
501-202-5001
888-324-8686
510-215-2112
876-289-3235
407-702-0538
404-891-5669
612-325-8774
281-968-0362
503-563-0072
971-220-1019
773-449-5055
949-250-6655
855-831-5345
513-417-0498
855-831-5346
407-476-5501
503-902-8477
216-744-4009
313-204-1037
253-382-9076
407-565-9999
440-969-6207
801-250-3232
503-457-1003
360-529-6902
206-496-0911
971-220-1032
253-382-9075
801-290-2146
360-529-6909
202-670-1952
212-235-0125
202-769-7192
459-121-8344
801-702-7090
971-256-5511
202-316-4793 (their new number as of today)

As they add new numbers, I'll update this list.

Actions we can take:

1) There is a simple way to stop any automatic predictive dialer from any calling
phone line.

Get a telephone answering machine:
Wal-Mart, AT&T 1739 Adjunct Answering Machine System $16.46
Target, AT&T DECT 6.0 Cordless Answering System (EL52100)  $29.99
Radio Shack AT&T Corded Digital Answering Machine $19.99
etc...

or re-record your outbound message (play it from your computer's speakers)
then go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VC_SIT.ogg to hear the 3 tones played twice.

Press RECORD and play the tones from your computer speaker into your microphone on the
answering machine, or your cell phone when you re-record your voice mail message.
After the 3 tones are played twice, begin your personal voice recording:

BOOP, BOO, BEEP pause, you have reached (your phone number) we are not available to
take your call at this time. Please leave your name and phone number and we will call
you back as soon as possible.

If you are home, when you hear the name and phone number, you can pick up the phone
if you wish to talk to the caller. Otherwise the telemarketer dialer will automatically
remove your number from their fish list. This also works for cell phone voice mail,
except you won't be able to hear them until you listen to the voice mail.

General Info: SIT Tones
There are eight Special Information Tones or SITs played before telephone company
recorded announcements. They are used to tell automated dialing equipment the call
did not complete.

The VC_SIT tone indicates: Vacant Code; this number is not in service, so remove
this number from your calling list, (however your number really is in service, you
simply fooled the auto dialer into not calling again). I can tell you that since I
have done this on my phone, the volume of calls has dropped drastically. I just got
my first call in a month, and in the prior month I only had one call then too. THIS
SEEMS TO WORK! Update, I am suddenly on their list again after months of being off,
I have been called three times this week and once last week.

2) To help on my phone, I've created a trash contact which has a silent ring tone
and each time they change their spoofed number to a new one, I add them to this contact
so at least I can continue my meetings and meals without interruption once I have
their new spoofed Caller ID number. It helps, a little.  If I do not recognize the
called, or it is private, or no number, or even a wild number, (I've also been called
by number 69, and 488, and a few other incomplete numbers), I don't even answer. I
pull a browser, check google against that number, if it turns up here, I add their
number to my trash contact list, enter a do not call complaint,
( https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx?panel=2 ),
and update my phone list here to help to get the word out on this number.
Register your phone at donotcall.gov.

3) There is no one here that can stop the calls, you have to take action yourself.
Forget Do-Not_Call or FCC or BBB or Attorneys General, use the VC_SIT code to
start your voice mail message, let your contacts know to expect that tone at that
start of your voice mail, and then give it some time to get the autodialers to m
ark your number as vacant.

The D-bag that called asked for someone else.  When I tried to be polite and said they had the wrong number they jumped into their shpeal about medical care or whatever.  He was very persistent and rude and didn't care when I told him he was calling a cell number.  I think someone should sit there and have a nice long conversation with one of them and then send them a bill for the time.