Getting more calls after signing up on the Do Not Call List

like a true ignoramus. Or you could be a telemarketer not wanting people to sign up so that you can call the legally. Which one are you?

Why? Simple. Because there are more scammers than ever out there trying to rip off anyone they can.

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I had the same problem. I had hardly any calls before signing up on the DNC. Now I get about 10 calls a day either from not listed to blocked numbers. If you say there is no connection then how come so many are having the same issue after signing up.

No, that's not the same problem at all.

I went cell-only in about 2003.  I put my cell number on the DNC list the day I got it.  I got almost no spam or scam calls until about 2015.  That's 12 years with fewer than 25 spam or scam calls each year.

I am now trying to change jobs and have put my phone number on several job sites that I though were secure.  A few of my pests know my name and may have gotten my phone number from one of those job sites.  Most of my pests do not call me by name.  I suspect they are using robo-dialers to call every number and don't care who owns each one.  I'm now getting 3 or 4 spam calls/week.

Scammers are NOT using the DNC list as a source of phone numbers.

Just a suggestion - try a burner phone for your job searches. That's what I did. I didn't want to have my personal cell phone number anywhere online so bought a secondary phone just for the job search.

This thread has been going on since 2013, it is like arguing with a wall. I say put it to bed.

The real problem is the phones.  I did not get any calls at all until I had my own phone.  On the other hand, why would an illegal scammer want to work from a list full of names of people who Don't want to talk to you?  Even scammers have to pay something for calling lists, even if the lists are stolen, so why not pay for list that might produce income, not automatic hang-ups?

It does seem like a waste of time and money doesn't it?   but...The reason they don't care if we want to talk to them or not is because they turn around and sell our info to someone else.  They make money whether we respond positively or not.

I have been wanting to fact-check that notion of scammers selling info to other scammers for a while now.  We seem to take that for Gospel, but I have not read anything that proves or disproves Scammer 2 Scammer list sales.

In the Legit World, before the DNC, there were info/date compilers (Dun and Bradstreet or Dun's Lists, for example) and a company could order custom lists.  The raw Data, was the prize, not the lists themselves.

I get most of the same phone calls as my friends in this town, but from a marketing viewpoint, we are not all that similar in age, gender, married/single/divorced/kids, education or employment. So I am wondering if the list is more about area codes or zip codes, and then war dialing the numbers.

Are there scammer conventions?  Scam-Con?  I am sure there are telemarketing conventions, and scammers might attend those.  Maybe we can collect some money and send someone from 800notes? Might make a good reality TV show.

There a few posters here who might know about S-2-S list sales, so keep checking back.

I get a big kick out of people thinking that you need these "lists" to call people.  You only need a "list" if you want to call a particular person, which is what telephone books provided.  I want to call Mr. X but I don't know his number, so I go to the telephone book, look up Mr. X and there is his number.  You don't need a "list" to call everyone. Proof?  Get your phone out, and enter your area code and exchange.  Now you have 6 numbers out of 10.  Now, start dialing every number from 0000 to 9999.  Think you might end up with a ringing phone?  Well, we know that yours will be ringing if you do that.  But hand dialing would take forever, not to mention your fingers would get tired.  So, now what if we bought a program for a couple of hundred dollars that would do that for us?  We could then make thousands and thousands of calls for almost nothing per call.  So, why would you spend money for lists, especially the DNC which costs $16,000?  You wouldn't, and there is actually no need for these "lists".  What I just wrote has been posted in here probably a dozen times, but no one takes the time to read or even to think anymore.  It would be nice if we could simply do away with these idiotic threads, because it would then make this site so much better in that it would contain accurate information.

>> The real problem is the phones.    <<

Ah jest cain't unnerstan it.  Every since I got that silly box on the wall, all it does is make ringin' noises.  Sometimes I pick up that earpiece thing, but all I can hear is aunt Tillie, down the road, talkin' 'bout her chickens and how they lay more eggs than does the Easter Bunny.

I asked the opryator how to stop the silly box from ringin', and she told me to go see an ear doctor and something about tinnyitus affectin' the ears of older folks.

Ol' George, down the road, got some carrier pigeons.  Maybe I should buy some from him, and chuck that wooden box.  If the pigeons make a ringing noise, I can have them for lunch.  That is better than getting splinters in my dentures from chewing on an old wood box, anyways!

See that little book hangin' from the telly-phone?  Somebody tole me that was a di-rek-tory, and I should be proud to have my name in it, as one of the folks in this area to have a telly-phone.  Why do they call it a "party line", anyways?  We ain't had no parties on it as fer as I can tell!

I blame it all on that feller, Mr Alex Graham Bell.  He wuz supposed to be the inventer of the telly-phone.  I like his graham cookies, but that telly-phone is just a flash in the pan.  I think I will take it off the wall, but it covers the hole where my nephew's finger slipped while cleaning the shotgun.

Mr X.

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i have been on the DO NOT CALL List since 2011 and this year they are ridiculous i get them at least 10-15 times a day all from different numbers.. ughh there has to be something i can do omg

OMG! There IS something you can do! You can invest in a call blocker! OMG! Some of them even let you block entire area codes! OMG!