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First Namecity State Story Dorie Sabillasvillemd I Am Being First Name City State Story I am being harassed daily by these robocalls sometimes 3 or 4 times a day. I told them many times that a am on the no call list they do not care. 3606639447 is one of the many numbers that they use. On the last call I got I insisted to talk to a supervisor he said she will just chew you up! He then hung up. I think a class Dorie SabillasvilleMD action law suit should be placed against them! john merrick NY no I stay n the line and ask the marketer to remove me from their list and they hang Barry Oak Park IL up on me. Robert Tigard OR No-call list We get twice daily "Out of Area" calls. There is no number associated with it in caller ID or our phone bill. They never leave a message and we are afraid to pick Marilyn Sacrament CA up the phone for fear they will bother us more. Anyway to stop this? William Greenville NC I have blocked a number of callers but wish they would all stop. i Have signed up more than once for Do Not Call, all tp no avail.I get calls from rug companies , window companies. calls that show up on my TV as 800 or888 olive brooklyn NY numbers with no ID. They come at inconvenient times, and I get 2-4 a day. I keep getting spam calls from 800 286 2135 stating that I won $200 off my Steve Los AngeleCA telephone bill. Today, February 27, 2014, I received a call from 1-360-322-6687. This is a company that wants to lower my interest rate. They have called at least 40 times in the last several months. They say at the end, that if you no longer what to receive these calls press 9...I do this and they still call. They also call from numerous numbers, but, it is always the same voice and same recording. I have also tried speaking to someone and asked to be removed, but, they just rudely hang up on me as I'm talking! I am sick of these calls. They sometimes call 2 to 3 Diane Ft Myers B FL times a week! HELP!!! The call about lowering credit card rates was routed through a local number, 210- 492-1890. There was no option to opt out. Calling the number got a recorded message that the party was not accepting calls. I left a message that I did not Alexander San Antoni TX want any more calls and that I was reporting the incident to the FTC Receive about 3 per day on land line phone several on cell phone. Tried threatening them with FCC. They laugh! They stopped for a while and now have Pauline Sierra VistaAZ started back up again. Used to get calls from "Rachel"...same company. Spoken to "humans" after recorded intro and when I tell them to take me off list Arthur Amelia Isla FL they hang up instantly. Lew Denver CO Another call from "Cardholder Services." I get on every week of so. Usually these call are from someone at "warehousing" telling me someone has paid for a medical alarm for me and they want to make an appointment to come Lew Denver CO out and install it. This call said I had "won" a medical alarm system. Feb. 21, 2014, and another robocall from this company. I'm so sick of it. I get one Lew Denver CO of these every couple of weeks. I have all my landline phone numbers registered with the DO NOT CALL Registry. Al Bay MinetteAL It has not seemed to help. I have found a service that seems to work fairly well ... they are called http://www.nomorobo.com. The problem is, they still don't service my cell phone Susan Buffalo GroIL carrier :( We have Caller ID so we don't answer calls that are unfamiliar to us. (They generally don't leave messages). Have had about a dozen this week. Here are some of them: Unknown Caller (2 calls); Ozark Liquidators (3 calls) - this is a timeshare liquidation company - we haven't had a timeshare in years; then several that just show up as numbers: 417-251-9029, 703-829-0487, and 214-283-1316, etc. In the past couple of months a home security company has been calling but Jury Southern PNC didn't call this week. Thanks for your help !! I tried to call them back but I received a message stating that the party who owns Daniel McAllen TX this line does not receive calls. very frustrating! I've tried catching calls before voicemail triggers because solicitors rarely leave messages. When I do get a real person, I tell them, very politely, to put our phone number on their DO NOT CALL LIST. I am disabled and trying to catch these calls is very difficult. The constant ringing interrputs my rest and sleep. I do not turn my ringer off because I want to be available to my family in case of an emergency. I am thinking about putting a voice mail answer on my machine saying I don't accept solicitations and if they are a solicitor to put my number on their DO NOT CALL LIST. I get these calls on my landline. My husband gets some on his cell phone. Solicitations are for political, social issues, timeshares, cruises, credit card interest reduction, mortgage loans, windows, remodeling and repairs, etc. The lists goes on. I will be appreciative of anything that can be done about this very Linda St Paul MN annoying problem. M Port Isabel TX Unable to contact them I keep getting messages about lowering my interest rate. Well I pay my credit cards in full as they are due and so I never incur interest rates. So I'm not Katherine Vestal NY interested in being bothered about lowering them! The Petroleum Institute now has a new political robocall demanding action against the Obama administration. I didn't listen after that so I don't know what they are Lew Denver CO demanding that we do. The calls direct you to press a key to stop but more calls begin. Many of the calls have to do with time shares, medical alert systems, bank credit card rates etc. you Lynne Endicott NY never talk to a person so impossible to stop. I have asked robo callers to put me on their "do not call" list, but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Sometimes my caller ID will come up with different area codes, but they end up being from the same companies. Occasionally, they seem very plausible and I don't know what to do. They always seem to call at mealtime or in the evening. Inevitably they call when I am in the bathroom. I have begun picking up and hanging up without saying anything. I would be happy to do Judy Vestal NY anything to stop the annoying calls. I do not know how to get in touch with anybody to see about having these automatic calls stopped but I have put in a while ago about it to the 800 number that it was given a couple years ago and I seems like it just started back all over Edward spring lake NC again Credit Card Services with caller ID #717-203-8009 has "robo called" many times during the past year. There has never been an "opt out" selection, only "press one to speak to a representative". Each of the calls has stated; "this is your last and final chance etc etc". But they keep calling anyway! This company is a pure nuisance with whom I have never done any business. I did press one today (2-4- 14) and told the representative I wanted no more of these calls, to which I received silence with no response (must have hung up?) I have made complaints on "DoNotCall.gov" every time and have not seen anything positive about their William Tucson AZ operation-----are they still in business? Bill Tucson AZ We have stopped answering our phones. We look at the phone number and if we do not recognize the number, we wait until the answering machine picks it up. The robocalls are using local area codes but will hang up by the second ring. We are receiving about 4 calls a day trying to sell us medical alerts or credit card problems. We also hear from Credit Card Services that this will be the final call however there is no final call. We can constant calls from companies wanting to sell Diabetic supplies. They lie saying they are calling from NY or NYC but can not tell you the name of the street or town. A woman called telling me that she was from Microsoft and wanted me to turn on my computer so she could walk me through the steps to repair my computer. I said "what do you think I was born yesterday." She said "do you think I was born yesterday." I said "well how old are you." She said "50". I told her that she has a "snowballs chance in hell if she Cyndy Brick NJ thinks I am going to turn on my computer. She said she didn't understand. I am and for some time now been on the "do not call" list yet I still get calls from credit card interest rate services and companies attempting to sell me pharmaceutical supplies (mostly E.D.
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