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Hung-up on answering machine

I don't want good it do'es to press9 they keep calling.

Would love to send someone by to rough these douchebags up. Robo call about putting a sign in my yard .. blah blah .... alarm system. Press "9" to have them stop calling. Riiiiiiight.

Robo call followed by live call. Free alarm system scam. If you agree to the free installation, you must pay for monthly monitoring service. If you try to cancel, they will add outrageous charges to your account. If you fail to pay, they send your account to a malicious collections agency which will threaten to send you to jail. Ignores all requests to stop calling.

Called on 8-9-12 at 1:48 p.m. and came up on caller i.d. as " Phone Services " ?????????-Second call from this number.

I mus have a dozen of these calls on my phone after returning from a week long trip. They want to "put a sign in my yard" for security services. Bunch of crooks. Obviously the "no call" list means nothing to them either.

"...If you will allow us to put a sign in your yard, we will install a free home alarm...". Home alarm sales or phishing for financial info.?

"Phone Services." Didn't leave a message. Atlanta, GA area.

Do not recognize this number.

PW, you've found the hard way that pressing keys for ''opt out'' is foolish when the offer comes from an outright scammer. Just as when one replies in any way to email spam, the first thing any response tells the phone scammer is that yours is a functional phone number which a live person just might respond to again. That is how your phone numbers become commodities, shared with and sold off to other criminals.

What's evident from this short thread is this is yet another Pacific Northwest number mixed up in a crop rotation of popular scams. What is not evident is that ''laws will not stop them''. To be specific, laws alone don't stop or alter any behavior, but application of law does. Enforcement action against the most elusive scammers depends on each of us reporting to form a pattern of illegal behavior. The next step is a broader technological response, which the FTC has acknowledged in last month's Summit announcement.

Agency Announces Robocall Summit to be Held October 18 in Washington, DC
ftc.gov

I sympathize with everyone and share your frustration and anger but there is nothing...and I mean absolutely NOTHING that you can do about these calls. Even laws will not stop them. Get a call blocker. Digitone makes one that costs $100. There number is (877) 610-5693 or you can look them up on the net. I'm am not affiliated with them in any way. I am just a happy customer. Good luck.

No message left. The comments below indicate this is another home security scam. I've pressed the button to opt out of any more calls before, but I get the same offers coming from different phone numbers now.

ROBOTCALL PHISHING
THEY'RE AFTER YOUR FINANCIAL INFO, AS WITH OTHER TYPES OF PHISHING (LOWER CREDIT RATES)
THIS ONE USES THE "FREE ALARM SYSTEM" PHISH

not even a robot, just dead air

Sally, the US DNC registry has done wonders in this house and many others to repel honest businesses with an annoying phone manner. What remains are the spoofing scammers with autodialers who simply don't care.

Had you actually read what the FTC nearly begs you to see at the time of Do Not Call registration, you would understand that your DNC complaints do precisely what was intended, mainly to add to a pool of intelligence which becomes useful to regulators and law enforcement when they do at last take action against a clear violator with an established pattern of offense.

Q&A: The National Do Not Call Registry
ftc.gov

The ''something'' to be done is your role in enforcement, mainly to report every violative call to the FTC and attorneys general. A mass of complaints has helped the FTC choke off several credit reprice scammers since 2010. In time the security system hawkers will get their due, but they've done a rather thorough job of obscuring themselves in a rabbit warren of dealers, installers, and call centers. A blog site devoted to the scam helps paint the broader picture.

stoptomwithhomeprotection.wordpress.com

Another scam. What good is the DNC? I'm tired of these calls. Can't something be done?

A criminal scam. They used to play the credit card scam (give us your credit card number and personal information and we'll lower your interest rate). Now it's a recorded message pitching a home security scam.... "the FBI reports that as many as x homes in your area will be the victim of crime... let us place a small sign on your front lawn and we'll give you a free home security system..." Yeah, right. No doubt they'll send their thugs to my house and clean it out. A blatant violation of Do Not Call law (recorded message directed at homeowners). Next time they call, it's press #1, and blast the ears off the crook that answers with my air horn !!

Robo-call trying to sell an alarm system.

Recorded message trying to sell home security - Like I'm going to trust my home security to slimy telemarketers who violate the DNC list. Other web pages report this number selling other things like credit cards, and claim that if you answer the phone or select the opt out key they forward the number to other telemarketers.

No idea who is calling now... on the do not call list for years.

This outfit has an 'opt out' key assigned, but it appears they ignore it. This is the same 'swindle' that's been going on for years. Why can't someone put these people out of business?

Hood rats who breath heavy into the phone, who are these people and who keeps buying trash from them??

No message

When I asked to be removed, they immediately hung up on me.

Different Day !! Different Number !! Good thing I can block calls. Another number to add to the list.

Recorded message about lowering interest rates on your credit cards. How very dare you call me.