I got the same call that I got 30 or 40 times..

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4. The ones that are calling are just criminals.

Criminals do not care about the federal Do Not Call registry. I have not received a legitimate telemarketing call in many years (the legitimate businesses obey the law).

If they are willing to break that law, you have to wonder what other laws are they willing to break, and why in the world would anyone trust them with any personal or financial information.

I use an Ooma VOIP phone system, which has a very robust blocking feature (I can block by name - 'unavailable' is a good choice, number, or partial number). It also includes a link into the NoMoRobo service, and they have a 'community blacklist' that automatically blocks calls from numbers if a certain number of people have already reported and blocked that number.

Where we used to get 4 or 5 scammer calls a week, we are now down to maybe one every 2 or 3 weeks.