I put my home phone number and my cell phone number on the Do-Not-Call List and I've been getting an increasingly high amount of calls since then. I never got a single telemarketing call on my cell phone before, now I get that annoying 000-000-0000 foghorn "This is your captain!" cruise call multiple times a week. They called three times yesterday on my home phone.
I should have known before I added my number, especially my cell phone number, that some con artists would get their hands on the list and exploit it (because if you aren't going to follow the law, who wouldn't want a nice, cheap list of active numbers?).
I don't understand how caller ID works, but why can't the telephone companies (ex. Bell) do something about these calls coming from non-existent numbers like 123-456-7890 and 000-000-0000?
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I put my home phone number and my cell phone number on the Do-Not-Call List and I've been getting an increasingly high amount of calls since then. I never got a single telemarketing call on my cell phone before, now I get that annoying 000-000-0000 foghorn "This is your captain!" cruise call multiple times a week. They called three times yesterday on my home phone. I should have known before I added my number, especially my cell phone number, that some con artists would get their hands on the list and exploit it (because if you aren't going to follow the law, who wouldn't want a nice, cheap list of active numbers?). I don't understand how caller ID works, but why can't the telephone companies (ex. Bell) do something about these calls coming from non-existent numbers like 123-456-7890 and 000-000-0000?