Blocking Annoying Cell Phone Callers?

RobertB-DC asks: "Twice a week, for the past several months, I receive a call on my cell phone, from a 'Restricted' number. It's always the same: 'Please hold for an important non solicitation message.' It then tells me to call 1-800-842-0640 for further instructions. When I call (from a CID-blocked work phone), all I can get from them is the company name: NCO. They won't tell me more about their company unless I tell who I am. Verizon says they can't block the caller. Short of exposing my own identity to someone I don't know, how can I get rid of these annoying calls?" Are there cell phone carriers who are progressive enough to offer call blocking services of some kind?

Comments

Apparently

[Anonymous Coward]

You're not alone.

Fight fire with fire

[the_other_one]

The problem caused by one unpaid bill is easily solved with a second unpaid bill.

Don't pay the phone bill.

It is an extortion racket

[wildzeke]

I called the number and some guy calling himself McBride said I owed him $699.