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

I'm one of those who had an increase in calls since registering 2 years ago on the DNC list. I maybe got one or two a month and after signing up my cell number, the calls increased to an average of 5 a day for about a month. It's now about 5-6 a week but that's still too many.

Since I've had my cell number for 4 years and the increase happened immediately after signing up on the DNC list 2 years after getting this number I know there is a connection.

What is it though? Why is there an increase immediately following signing up?  Is the site hacked? Are they selling numbers? Something's not right with the coincidence.

Add to that the fact that there is that 31 day period before your number has been picked up by all of the DNCR subscribing companies, which people (apparently) do not seem to pay much attention to when they sign up.  So, if one of those clusters of calls happens during that period, or a legitimate telemarketer who has not yet done their monthly update calls, we end up with people assuming that the calls they received are connected to their signing up for the registry, even though it has not fully gone into effect for them.  But then, these same people often think that the DNCR is a super-duper stop-all-calls service.

I think something else happened.  Maybe one of the credit cards that got hacked included your information.  Maybe you entered a drawing and gave them your phone number.  Maybe someone else entered you in a drawing.

Do you have teen-age kids?  Often they have poor judgement and give out contact information when they shouldn't.  Maybe it was done by a friend of your kids.  Or your grand kids or their friends.

Did you give Facebook your phone number?  Sign up on a job search site?  There are all sorts of ways that a phone number can escape.

Scammers can set their illegal robo-dialers to call a specific area code.  Maybe they decided that you and your neighbors were ripe for scamming.

If the scammers were using the DNC list as a source of numbers to call I would be getting a lot more than the 10-15 per year I'm getting now.

the DNC worked like everyone thinks it should there would be no reason to have a phone.  No one here that makes the claim that they got more calls after has ever provided rock hard proof, since they can't.  And since everyone is getting more calls that has to be factored into the equation and the math becomes really complicated at that point.

Google your name & number.. places such as Spokeo and others often come up. Some of those company's not only include your information, but list relatives as well.   Make them remove this information.

Also take into consideration that those illegal callers are plumbing in numbers from A-Z and using dialers and computers. Those do not acknowledge the difference between land line or cell, on the list or not, nor will a unlisted number keep you from getting these calls. Its all a matter of time before it starts.

Try using a call blocker on your phones to help stop the unwanted calls. There's free apps out there for cell phones and a call blocking device (most are under 40) or phones  for landlines.

Let's do a little experiment.  I have had my current cell phone number since the end of July 2014.  Roughly 17 months.  After I first received the number I got a lot of calls for the previous owner who skipped out on paying his bills, didn't tell his grandparents his new number, or even his friends.  But I pretty much have that problem solved by now.  I currently have 24 numbers blocked by Mr. Number.  Not very many calls in 17 months.  This number is also not currently listed on the DNC.  So according to everyone here, if i list my number, my calls should shoot through the roof.  So we have a good basis before signing up, now let us see what happens after I list my number on there today.

My feeling is that people are getting cause and effect backwards. Nuisance calls have been increasing for some time. Since legitimate telemarketing is virtually non-existent now (due to DNC List), nuisance calls are what encourage people sign up for DNC. But these are precisely the calls (i.e., illegal ones) that are not affected by DNC. And when such calls continue to increase in number people incorrectly attribute this increase to their signing up for the list.

So people think signing up for the DNC List causes an increase in nuisance calls when in fact it's the increase in nuisance calls that makes people sign up for the DNC List.

Do those 24 blocked numbers include ones related to the previous owners of the number or are they just other nuisance calls?  I will be looking forward to seeing your results (after several months; to allow for a proper sample period); although I am sure your average of 1.4 blocked numbers per month will probably remain the same or go down.

Of course, you realize that the supporters of the "Getting more calls after signing up on the Do Not Call List" mindset will claim that any increase (regardless of size or lack of statistical significance) in that average you encounter "proves" their point; while if you report the same or a decreased average, you will be accused of either lying or not reporting the "true" results.

I did go back & read the old post referenced above, & agree w/ the reply to it that suggested it should be required reading for all. Thank you for that well-crafted, intelligent post. I decided years ago that I would never do business with any unsolicited caller, legitimate or not, & added my nos. to the DNC registry when it began. However, as you explained so well in your old post, with current technology that is simply not enough.  I thank you for educating me on how to better protect myself & my family.

I don't believe so, maybe 1 or 2.  The rest were known spam numbers, already on Mr. Number. several student loan ones, a few Racheals, 1 was for the previous owner's from his student loan servicer trying to collect, and there were a few complete unknowns, so I am not sure if they were actually calls to worry about or ones that were simply dialed wrong. But we can use the 24 for the purposes of this experiment.

And yes, I have already figured that, but there is nothing I can do about someone's belief perseverance.

I forgot to mention that I plan on reporting roughly every month

There's to many demographic variables and associations with businesses to determine why some people get more calls than others. I have friends living in small towns in Oklahoma and South Dakota that receive few if any calls to their landlines or cell. I live in a large city in Florida and receive all the scam calls to my landline but not to my cell. I don't find it impossible to believe that there may be truth to either side taken,

I also starting to receive more unwanted calls since I am in the Do Not Call list and I was wondering why, so..
I went to the Do Not Call website: https://www.donotcall.gov/
At the very end of the page I found this:
"Attention sellers and telemarketers: Go to https://telemarketing.donotcall.gov to access the National Do Not Call Registry".
I could not believe it! For a fee, the Do Not Call Registry can be accessed, and downloaded by area code. .... It is a lot to read there, but I understood that "legitimate" companies can have access to the Register for a fee... and I wonder why? It is supposed to be list not to be shared with any "seller" at all.
I will remove my phone number from the Register.

I started  to receive more unwanted calls since I am in the Do Not Call list and I was wondering why, so..
I went to the Do Not Call website: https://www.donotcall.gov/
At the very end of the page I found this:
"Attention sellers and telemarketers: Go to https://telemarketing.donotcall.gov to access the National Do Not Call Registry".
I could not believe it! For a fee, the Do Not Call Registry can be accessed, and downloaded by area code. .... It is a lot to read there, but I understood that "legitimate" companies can have access to the Register for a fee... and I wonder why? It is supposed to be list not to be shared with any "seller" at all.
I will remove my phone number from the Register.

Why do I smell male bovine manure from your post?