"Celebrating" The Do Not Call's 10th Anniversary

For my cellphone I downloaded an app called Mr Number which checks my contact list (maintained through Google which is mated in some biologically perverted way with my employer's Email system -- the downside is that Google has my contact list now but then so does the NSA so what the heck...); if the caller # is not recognized the call is blocked. Sometimes my phone will ring/buzz once but most times I don't realize a call has been dumped until I check it later in the day.

My land-line has a $30 digital answering machine which has been in service for five years (its predecessor was old enough to drink legally). It takes all of my calls now. My immediate family and friends know to announce themselves when they call and wait for a few seconds so I can pick up. A side benefit is that occasionally my answering machine confuses the robo-dialer, which then connects to a C/S rep who happily offers to lower my interest rates, or clean my ducts, or some other inane offer. After a few seconds the C/S rep realizes they are talking to dead air and hang up. Amusement for my cats while I am away and I'm driving some C/S' blood pressure through the roof with minimal effort from me ... that's a win-win in my book!

I go on record of saying the Do Not Call List is a joke!  I can't count how many times I have filed complaints  on this list and then re-added my number. I have no less calls or fewer breaking of the supposable enforceable laws. At one point I almost believed you sold these numbers on a list for a few dollars per million.

Want to fix the problem. Unlimited call blocking at no cost to consumer.  I only get 20 numbers for att uverse.  My friend has to pay separate subscription fee and is limited to 15 for his phone.  I can block calls on my phones, but it gives a quick ring.  Enough to annoy or wake me.  DNC list is a failure.  It is too weak and political.  It was a start, but needs to be improved.

What's to celebrate? It doesn't work. ALL my  numbers are listed on this thing and I still get unwanted calls!!! It's ridiculous.

Very impolite to ask why he's seeing a doctor if it's not an emergency, rhetorical or not. It might be the eye doctor, the dentist or maybe just an annual checkup. Maybe they have an ailment or disease that requires a doctor's supervision, but none the less it's nothing you need to know.

Better yet, prosecute obama.

Bravo Regulus! Love your idea. I wonder why that hasn't been figured out yet. It doesn't seem to hard in light of some other technological advances that have been made.

I don't even want to own a phone anymore the way things are going in this country. Constantly being harassed by idiots... either they want you to buy something or they're a con artist 'zombie collectors' which obtained your $5,000 debt for $10 and want you to pay. lol If I had the money I would have paid it long ago zombies. Go eat someone else's brains.

Like I wrote on a previous 'scam' number as a reply to someone else... land line or cell, if they want to get to you they will. I won't re-write everything I said but in short form... hang up and tell your friends and neighbors, etc.. that you just had a scammer call you and what it was about, so if your friends, etc... get this call they too can just hang up.
Annoying as it is, some people can't use 'silent' ringers and such because of elderly or away from home relatives that have to get through. Although my ringer is off most of the time, I have a light bar on my phone that flashes when someone calls. What can a person do when the government can't be bothered or the police are limited to what they can do and the DNC list is a bigger joke than (place your own thought here). Just grin and bear it and move on.

The Do Not Call Registry is an epic failure.  No one pays attention to it, they call you regardless.  Let's just be honest, anything the government sets up/does turns out...well, like the do not call registry.  It's there but only in name because it does nobody any good.

Try VIATALK a very economical Voip company. Has many ways to defeat robo calls including requiring caller to press a number to get through.

Well said! I second that!

"Celebrating" 10 years of uselessness, at the Taxpayers expense.

My landline service provider, Verizon, does not offer any call blocking feature at all. It used to be that I could block a call by hitting *and an couple of numbers. They've stopped that now. Optimum used to offer call blocking. Not sure if they still do. Definitely giving up Verizon for a more consumer conscious company. I just need to do my research to try and find one!

Do not call list is a joke. They call you anyway and if you try to complain absolutely nothing gets done about it. Its a waste of money.