8882762971

Oops, sorry, should have posted this on a new message, as the # is different.

I have no idea who this person is and they don't leave a message either.They, tried to call with a private number before and then,called right after with this number.

Got one call to a phone number on the "no-call" last asking for my wife. I told the woman she wasn't available. She told me she was with Cancer Fund Of America Support Services so I hung up the phone. She called back again and I hung up the phone again. The third time she call I told her we wasn't interested. She said, "But! You don't understand!" so I hung up the phone again. How many times you have to tell a telemarketer you not interested and that you are on the "no call" list

These calls go on and on.  I am convinced that they are a scam.
If you have a cordless phone, when they call press "Talk" then immediately press off.

No one says anything when you answer. They don't leave a message either on your voicemail. They call mutliple times of the day and night.

i do not answer 800,866,867 or 888 calls.  i just let it ring, ring and ring, fools aren't getting any thing from me.  i did answer one call the 888-276-2971 after 2 other calls, if just a matter of minutes,i told them where they could go!

I don't care who they are or what they do. They all need to stop calling. Research or no research...giving any kind of personal info over the phone in this day and age is an act of pure stupidity.

I do not want anymore calls from this 888-276-2971 phone number.  They call at all hours of the day and night.  I am on the DO NOT CALL LIST and this is very Disturbing to get calls from a number that no one even answers when you pick up the phone.  I do not have the money to give for any donation, I live on a fixed income.  DO NOT CALL MY NUMBER ANY LONGER!

This company admits to using over 70 percent  of its revenue for fundraising. BBB uses a 20 percent cutoff for real charites. Donate and you will be paying for "ZEKE" to spam these websites!

This company admits to using over 70 percent  of its revenue for fundraising. BBB uses a 20 percent cutoff for real charites. Donate and you will be paying them to spam these websites!

Calls this number and asked for some one that I have never heard of.  But keep calling when I tell them they have a wrong number.  Need my number removed from whom ever is calling

Received a call this morning.  When I answered, the woman gave her little pep talk about how they help cancer patients with personal care things, etc & can they please count on a donation from me.  I very politely informed her that we have medical expenses of our own with our youngest daughter who will be having surgery (number 10) in March & that is where our money is going.  I also told her that we only donate to 2 specific charities and that I was sorry, but we cannot help.  She immediately got rude with me & accused me of lying to her.  She actually told me that she doubted that my daughter is really having surgery.  I told her that a parent doesn't make up lies like that about her children and that they had better not call back & then I hung up on her.  What a horrible organization posing as a charity.  I agree with some of the other folks here-a total scam.

No one answers.

tell ya what mc... they're calling your house.  I was trying to give the best advice based on my experience with them calling me.  Everyone complains about it, sure.  That won't get them to stop however, hate to to tell ya the bare facts like that.  I have gotten off their listing by telling them I will hold while they remove me.  I held, they removed me.  i can see by your tone how yours methods must have worked for u, lol.  Good luck mc

I did not answer but they keep calling and do not leave a message.

Thomas, must you yell so much? If you were totally legit than there would be no need for yelling. Actions speak louder than words and the actions of this organization speaks volumes of what it is not. The precedures and actions of this organization speaks very loudly that they are more about making money for themselves than for providing services to people and orgainizations that are dealing with life threating diseases. If you were to have a family member or two, or a close friend deal with any form of cancer maybe you would feel differently about your actions. As far as a firm getting charity rating with tax exemption, most business people realize that it isn't that diffulcult and certainly does mean that they are not corrupt.

I did not answer - they did not leave a message.  get calls like these all the time.  frustrating.  Caller ID also said TOLL FREE.

Got a call with dead air. Waited a full 10 seconds, because if it is a person, they will either say something, or make some kind of noise. Dead air usually means a robot waiting for someone to say "Hello". I always say "Yes" to these things. I repeated myself 3 times and it hung up. I called the # back & got a lengthy advertisement for their "Service", then a prompt to leave a message. I left one telling them NEVER to call me again, and not to sell or share my number with ANYONE.

I tried calling back again, trying various numbers for extensions, an operator, anything. It's set up to hang up on you for an invalid input, there is NO operator & no extensions I tried worked.
They clearly do not want anyone to call them back.

I'm sure they erase all messages without listening so they can claim no
one is on their no call list.

They called a few months ago & I seem to remember telling them never to call then as well.

I'm sick of all the junk calls I get.

Filed another complaint on the do not call website, for all the good that
won't do.

Their website at http://www.cfoa.org/email.htm lists an office number
of 1-800-578-5284. I called it & got a machine saying they were closed.

http://www.cfoa.org/

Cancer Fund of America. Org.
I called and left them a message.
You can do that here.
Cancer Fund of America 2901 Breezewood Lane Knoxville, TN 37921 (865) 938-5281

If they do good, that's one thing. But i have hears of Telemarketing and Customer Service, as well as SUCCESSFUL Retail Management experience. Their people are useless, rude, and completely without intelligence.
They need better practices and that includes how they market and who they hire if the can't follow good practices.

These guys call several times a day, never leave a message. They've called me 15 times in the past week (I have one of those phones that can keep track.) Cancer Fund of America. Yep, I sent them them money before I did a little research on them. Since there does not seem to be any way to be rid of them, I thought that sharing this information was the least I could do........

from "MSN Money" article....

"Its easy to get confused by sound-alike names. For years, I thought Save the Children was the sponsorship charity that flunked watchdog standards, when, in reality, its Feed the Children that ran afoul of the AIP. You wouldnt want to confuse the Cancer Fund of America, which recently settled a fraud lawsuit with the state of Vermont, and the Cancer Research Institute, which gets high marks from charity monitors"
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Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs Settles with Cancer Fund of America, Inc.
Thursday, April 12, 2007  Contact: Bill Cloud

Joe Doyle, Administrator of the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs, announced today that Georgia has entered into a settlement with Cancer Fund of America, Inc. (CFA) over allegations that the charitable organization misrepresented its services and disseminated deceptive and misleading solicitations to Georgia consumers.
Cancer Fund of America purports to raise money to aid cancer patients directly, unlike other cancer charities, whose funds are used to further cancer research.  This is the second time that the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs has investigated CFA concerning alleged misrepresentations.  This latest investigation revealed that CFA’s direct mail solicitations contained false and misleading claims, including assertions that it provided cancer patients with transportation to chemotherapy treatments and supplied medication to patients.  Other allegations against CFA are that it misrepresented the number of cancer patients for whom it provided services and made false statements concerning how much of its proceeds went towards fundraising efforts.

As part of the settlement, CFA has agreed to eliminate any false or misleading statements from its web site and from future direct mail solicitations.  In addition, CFA is required to pay $50,000 for the benefit of the Georgia Cancer Coalition, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to cancer prevention, research and treatment in Georgia.  The money will be used expressly to benefit cancer patients.
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From Cleveland.com

In 2006, according to its filings with the state, Cancer Fund of America spent a little over $20 million: A quarter of that - $5 million - went to its core program, while $15 million went to fund-raising, salaries and other expenses.

That's not a ratio that charity watchdogs like to see.

The nonprofit has had a number of run-ins over the years with state attorneys general. In 1998, it finished paying off a $137,500 settlement with the state of Pennsylvania, whose attorney general accused it of concealing from donors the amount of money that went to fundraising.

In 2001, it settled with the state of Vermont, which said the charity's telemarketers misled donors by telling them Cancer Fund of America provided "urgent pain medication" to critically ill cancer victims when it provided only over-the-counter medicine like Ibuprofen.

In 2005, the nonprofit settled charges by the Massachusetts attorney general that its telemarketers made false and misleading statements to donors. Cancer Fund agreed to pay $75,000 to two charities in that case.

Earlier this year, Cancer Fund of America agreed to pay $50,000 after the Georgia Office of Consumer Affairs accused it of sending mailers that falsely claimed the Cancer Fund provided cancer patients with transportation to their chemotherapy treatments. The nonprofit also agreed to remove misleading statements from its Web site and direct mail solicitations.

It has a one-star rating, out of a possible four, with Charity Navigator (since updated to "zero" stars, indicative of an overall performance "far below industry standards". Cancer Fund of America Support Services, run by the same bunch, also received zero stars.)

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You might also want to check out The American Institute of Philanthropy. It rates the Cancer Fund of Anmerica an "F", and that doesn't stand for fantastic.