This is one of many,many,many unwanted calls my husband and I receive on a daily basis. In the past the first thing out of my mouth has been "this call is being recorded to insure that you & the company you represent are following the FCC & FDCPA rules and regulations. This generally pisses them off and they tell me that they are not giving me premission to do so. So then I mention if they are not doing anything illegal there should be no reason for them not to allow my recording, after all, they are recording me. It seems as the ecomomy worsens, these people become more rude! Any phone company will let you block up to 12 numbers without charging. However as we are all aware, scum scammers like these people have 20 or more trunk line PBX switchboards and will only call you from a different number. I finally contacted my carrier (Verizon) and placed a service called "call intercept". I won't go into detail but it has been amazing. Here's the short verison for anyone interested: If a caller attempts to reach my phone and the caller ID is Private, Unknown, Out of Area, Unavailable etc... my phone won't even ring. A recorded message plays to the caller stating that the number they are trying to reach has "call intercept" and asks the caller to identify themselves and the company they are calling from. Only after the requested information has been provided will my phone ring with a special ring - kind of a "ring,ring" in rapid session. This ring type lets me know that it is a call intercept. I can choose to pick-up the phone and listen to who the caller is at which time I have 5 options; 1)take the call 2)block the call sorry, I've never gotten past yes or no so I'm not sure what the other options are.  If I am not home to answer the call intercept, the call will go to my voice mail.  I have found that once these scammers here the words call intercept, they hang up and the greatest part.... I never even hear my phone ring!
It's not free but the $5 Verison charges me is so worth not having to deal with the harrasment. It's worth a try for those of you out here that are or should I say "were" sick and tired of the rude,mean pushy people call everyday regarless of the time of day. Being nice to these people doesn't work - but trust me call intercept did the job for us.

Good luck!

p.s: I don't not work for Verison or any other phone service - just in case anyone thought I was trying to sell you a service ;)

I received same call number yesterday .. caller ID said service message .. I do NOT have message taker . called ATT and got a VERY rude person who told me to use my instruction book for my phone .. I hung up on her .. did NOT want to use a few choice words on her attitude . I was VERY nice .. she was NOT .. since I have privacy manager . evidently it hit that and stopped there .. or I already have THIS number in 'reject' ..either or . I was trying to find out from ATT IF I had a message .. as I wanted to know who left one . IF they could . I did not think I had that NOR do I have my machine on here . that way .. can see who called and NOT call back cause NO message:) ..

Calls from this number several times in last month. Mostly they hang up on me, as I have asked to be taken off your list.

402-982-0883 called me with recorded message re: tea party or something.  What's this.  I didn't request that call.

I have gotten calls from 402-982-0883.

Telephone soliciting should be declared ILLEGAL - in most areas you can put a community sign up that says NO SOLICITORS; although really aggressive solicitors tend to proceed knocking on doors anyway.  I had about 4 calls in two days from a similar number (last 4 was 0881) and have now put a block to all in that particular series.  3 of them said 'Omaha, NE' on the caller ID and one said 'Service Message'.  No message was left on my phone in any case.  I won't answer my phone anymore unless I totally know the name or number that is calling me.

Dead line when picked up.  Calls in evening (EST), sometimes twice.

dial tone by time i picked up phone

Dial tone when picked up on second ring

Called today -- no message, I called back, no pick up.  Many thanks to this site for the info.

The phone just rang & when I picked it up - there was a dial tone. Caller ID said Service Message - so I was skeptical.

didn't answer, no message left, has called me multiple times at my business number, which is very annoying.

My "caller ID" described it as a "SERVICE MESSAGE".  Hung-up w/o leaving a message.

Does anybody have a fax machine>  If so, rather than pick up the phone yourself, let the fax machine answer the phone.

Tea party, same as Amy Alkon above: man's voice, asking whether I'd noticed tea parties taking place across America. "Please take notice today."

2 rings and the idiots hung up. i've already maxed out the numbers i want blocked from my att plan. I don't understand why att only lets us block 10 numbers. so annoyed.

Just got a call from this number. Answered it, but all I got was a dial tone?

Phone rang about three times and stopped.

Call - man's voice, asking whether I'd noticed tea parties taking place across America. "Please take notice today."

I don't give a damn what your agenda is, you have no right to use a phone line I pay for to invade my home and promote it. Spend the money to send a letter.

calls and then hang ups

Called by this phone number per caller ID.  No message left on answer set.

Phone-Spam.

Automated carpet cleaning telemarketer

I got a message about those stupid tea party demonstrations, not about care packages.  The guy spoke and then just stopped and hung up quickly.  It was actually quite rude.

gee was pretty happy to have only gotten 1 call from 1-000-000-0000 today, but now this one...1-402-982-0883 yet anothernew one...my blocked calls may eventually out number my friends lol

Get call after call from this number - no response - just dial tone.

Another Auto Warranty scan. Is there no f--king thing we can do about all these calls.

When I picked up, dial tone.

This is from some organization that wants money to ship care packages to soldiers.  Because I work with a legitimate organization that really does this, I was highly skeptical of the sales pitch I was getting from this number.  The man was a polished, aggressive, marketer who didn't want to accept "no" for an answer.

Dial tone by the time I picked it up on 3rd ring.