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

I get 10-15 calls a day too and I am also on the DNC. But you know, NONE of those callers have been people who respect the DNC. I did as Kat said, I went and got a blocker and it works! My phone now rings only once or twice a week, weekends I sleep through my naps without being disturbed!

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ughh there has to be something i can do omg

There are a few things, but that requires you to READ and there are many, many posts here about what you can do. I hope I have been helpful to you in understanding that your not the only frustrated person who comes looking for help. But if you don't read what people say, nobody can help you here.

Big A, you are so wrong! they called me 10 minutes ago

LOL!!!

Well, as a companion piece to your very inphomational post ... I humbly submit this little vid. Enjoy 😜

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PebCB0IIANI

They who? Who called you 10 minutes ago?

Question being posed to 800 notes post participants. Have you noticed an uptick in illegal telemarketing calls after certain life events or new and different financial situations occur, like the following?
  Hitting age 62?  Notice of default filed against your home? Recent and substantial increase in credit card debt? High interest rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage?
   It has been many people's experience that paying off virtually all of one's credit card debt results in receiving vastly fewer illegal telemarketing calls selling debt settlement programs within several months of paying off the cards. The data brokers purchase lists of persons with certain financial problems from the Big Three credit bureaus, then match the names received from the credit bureaus with data lists containing the person's name and telephone number.

Overseas call centers believing that are likely to purchase the services offered by the call centers' lead purchasing entities?  For example, one Indian call center [#1] discovers that you have a 6% mortgage and are purportedly interested in getting a refi to lower the interest rate. After that,  Indian call center #1 sells your file to another Indian call center, #2, with the thought that Call Ctr., #2 can also sell a mortgage refinance lead to a different mortgage broker in the USA.

   Looking forward to your respective inputs. Thank you.

Aww, I wanted to hear the Doc's take on it too. lol

@Abe, you sound lonely and posted in the wrong topic for that kind of help.

LOL, well at least it fit right in with Slim's post ;)

Maybe "maxwell casualty" got a call from "enargins", the poster that BigA was obliquely referring to in the post that maxwell replied to.
But then, considering that the content of maxwell's post really does not fit as a true response to what BigA posted two years ago, I think that maxwell may be confusing ringing in his ears as phone calls from the voices in his head.

Psssst..... How did Slim get photos of our phones?

If the phone number doesn't look familiar or it has a weird area code..or whatever..I will not answer. If it's someone that wants to talk to you they will leave a message. It's sad that there are so many jerks out there that like to prey on innocent people.

Dagnabit! I done tole that thar Bell guy not to finish his fandangled contraption.  I done tole him 2 soup cans on a string wuz good enuf fer  talkin' t' folks acrosst the way but he didn't lissen an' now look! We gotta deal with all them folks what call us up an' try t' steal our hard earned money. I don't make but 50 dollars a week with mah moonshine still anyway.

My mom tol' me not to talk nasty to them telly-phony marketeers or she would give me a new Dial tone by washing my mouth out with soap.

So exactly where was I wrong, and most importantly, please provide proof that I was wrong.  Since you claim that I am in error, then the burden of proof should be on you, so that I know what part of your argument to rebut, especially since I don't know exactly which one of my posts you are referring to.  Also, who is "they"?  The government, telemarketers, charities, Microsoft tech scammers, IRS scammers, Martians?  If you are going to make a post you should try to at least make it 25 words.

I think that post is closer to being on topic than 90% of the post in this thread.  It points out that all these DNC naysayers are not able to comprehend the realities of how they are being called.  Data merchants gather information, usually willingly supplied by the intended victims.  Personal information from places like social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc).  Credit Bureaus sell information to anyone willing to pay the price, doesn't have to be the full report, simply a "soft pull".  Property records are easily obtained for free online, foreclosures and tax sales as well.  DMV's are now selling your information as well.  But everyone here never takes that into consideration, because the only answer could possibly be that scammers are buying the list and using that because they need a list of phone numbers that are "active" and that "belong to someone".