A phone call from this number woke us up in the middle of the night.  Tried calling it this morning to NOT have it happen again.  When I dialed (and I tried twice) I got a message that the number was no longer in service.

Darn! I keep missing these people, mostly because they insist on calling late at night or slightly before the crack of dawn. Why "darn"? Because I have a script all ready for them that ends with a request for SSN and mother's maiden name. I know it won't do any good, but I just want to tick them off even a little for ticking so many of us off such a lot. And who knows how many millions of dollars they've already scammed from the unsuspecting? How do they live with themselves?

And can we please have a category below for "Scum-sucking bottom feeder"?

Just got this call and he was reading off information about my computer to me that he shouldn't have had. I talked and performed the 1st two tasks that he asked me to do (because it was only computer information checking), then he told me to download a program where they could access my computer from their place and wipe my viruses out from their remote location.. DEFINITELY a fraud. I hung up the phone at that point, and then they called back 4-5 times in the next 5 minutes because I hung up without saying anything.

Bloody Scam alright.  Poor Keith got charged on his credit card and he was so upset he fell off his walker and broke his
pick finger.   THERE GOES THE NORTH AMERICAN NURSING HOME TOUR!!  Bloody scamers!!

Mick

Dear  DNClistIsAJoke,

Put the blame where it really lay's, with the criminals and illegal telemarketers.
The DNC works just fine. It is for telemarketers only and honest business does indeed abide by it. It is the criminals (which includes illegal telemarketers), frauds and scammers that do not. However, the Fed. DNC does not cover some survey's, Political or Charities.  You would need to check your states DNC laws to see if these are under your states DNC laws.  The fact remains that they are not automatic call blockers though and can not protect you from the calls that are criminal, illegal or fraudulent.

Do consider maybe getting a call blocking device or phone..  You can google them and many are around $60.00 or so.

Report your callers here:

https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
https://esupport.fcc.gov/ccmsforms/form1088.action
https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx?panel=2

http://www.stopfraud.gov/report.html
http://www.fraud.org/

And here are the links to read and understand what the DNC's are, what they do and what they do not.  

By State DNC lists:
http://800notes.com/res/DoNotCall.aspx

http://www.tcpalaw.com/
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry
https://www.donotcall.gov/
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus27-complying-telemarketing-sales-rule
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus27-compl ... -rule#DNCrights