Just got a call. Picked it up. It was the Breast Cancer Prevention Fund. When I mentioned I was on the *Do Not Call Registry* they said all non-profits are exempt from the *Do Not Call Registry*. They said they'd remove me, then I hung up.

I love ComCast phone service.  I just push *60 and then *01# and the last incoming phone call (this 619-374-7749) is added to my block list.  When they call again, they will hear ComCast's recording say,

"In accordance with the owner of this telephone number, your call has been permanently blocked."

ComCast is GREAT!

Do you by chance know how much, if anything, it costs for Comcast to provide that blocking service? Thanks so much.

Thank you- not only for informing what the number was  but also the exact mechanics how to do the block on comcast-  You really helped me out since I am sick right now  & would have taken hours to remember the service, then how to do it too!!!!  You took time to spell it out which saved me hours of agony.   Much appreciation from someone under the weather!  
You just got some more feathers for your angel wings! (Not down on charity & helping a good cause,& I do donate to charities but on my time especially since my illness causes phone calls to disturb me but never know if dr. or my son needing to reach me so can't just turn off phone.  Since very difficult to answer calls,  feel these calls are an invasion of my personal healing space and making my health worse !.  I wonder how much these organizations actually get this way as there is no one I ever knew who would donate money over phone, especially in this day and age with so much identity theft, people are even more cautious.  They need to come up with  better way. without  turning off  or even hurting (as my case)so many people.

OR what about the elderly who have time walking to phone and rarely get calls so think its a critical call and then trips on way to answer- breaking their hip- yes getting extreme, but  only someone we give our number to
(ie:permission) should be allowed to call us!
Also find hard to believe do not call registry allows charities to be exempt - worth checking out if they are i violation.  However I think random dialing is still alllowed and may be how they are going it legally?  Anyone know?

Think I have issues with these bothersoe calls ?<Smile>

No extra cost= if you have comcast as your phone provider- just need to know how to use it and limit up to 12 numbers

which is BS, especially when Comcast does nothing else to keep you from receiving these stupid fukcing calls.
How happy will you be with Comcast when over 12 different numbers keep calling you every day?

I have been receiving calls from this number, as soon as you tell them you are not interested, they hang up on you. Very disrespectfull.

I called to have them remove my number last week and a lady said she would have it done promptly but today I got another call.

I'll try it, hope it works.

They keep calling... even when you tell them that you are do not call reg.

These people are sick.  No money goes to cancer.  This is a phone bank of thieves and scumbags who hang up on you no matter how polite you are (or they just hang up on you just as you pick up the phone).  My only advice?... Scream F**K YOU into the phone and hang up.

automatic call from "cancer preventi", did not respond when I picked up the phone.

Bob - not any longer, if you go to the donotcallregistry, it now says it NEVER expires!  So, register away!  Wont do you any good though... I hate to admit that I have become quite nasty to any phone number that I dont recognize (I will never give up my caller ID), takes more than 2 seconds for someone to answer (means they are doing it thru the computer, so there is a connect delay), once they answer -- I scream into the phone that I am on the do not call list and that they had best remove me from their list and I hang up.  It is really a sad way to treat people, but tell me why do they have a "do not call list"???????  Because almost everyone I know HATES telemarketers!

called 4pm 1/27 caller hung up....another loser scammer

Are you folks aware that you have to occasionally have to reregister with the national do not call registery. I have. I cannot remember the frequency that you have to get reregistered but check it out.

RECEIVED A CALL ON MY HOME LINE AT 6:32 pm, JANUARY 26,2011.  

I WAS OUT AND THE CALLER DID NOT LEAVE A MESSAGE.

THANKS FOR THE ABOVE INFO.  NEXT TIME THEY CALL I'LL EFF WITH THEM .

I'M SICK OF TELEMARKETERS.

|My phone rang several times and when I picked it up, all I got was a click, like they are just checking to see if someone is home. Whare is 619 area code? Why can't they be stoopped from making this kind of call?

Called and hung up.

Called back, got an automated message about Breast Cancer and mammograms.
Plan to file a complaint with donotcall.gov

THEY DIDN'T LEAVE ANY MESSAGE.
THEY CALLED OCT 20 AFTERNOON.

i pick up and no one is there it is so annoying
then i call the number back and no one live picks up only the voice mail lady

These people are sick.  No money goes to cancer.  This is a phone bank of thieves and scumbags who hang up on you no matter how polite you are (or they just hang up on you just as you pick up the phone).

I get at least 1 to 3 calls every day from these people. They keep asking me to send money even though I told them that I already donate to other foundations. Not only that, I asked that they take me off of their call list over a month ago, and they just keep calling more often! How did they get my number since I'm on the Do Not Call list?

The following is from the donotcall.gov website on exempt companies.  Just cause they say they are non-profit doesn't mean they are exempt.  Plus, you can report all these unwanted calls on the donotcall.gov website.

"Exempt Organizations ("EO") ? includes any person or business that is exempt from both the FTC's and FCC's requirements to access the National Registry, but voluntarily chooses to access the information solely for the purpose of preventing telephone calls to telephone numbers in the National Registry. Exempt Organizations include charities or certain non-profit organizations, organizations engaged in political solicitations or surveys, or Sellers or Telemarketers that call ONLY consumers with whom they have an established business relationship or from whom they have obtained the express written agreement to call. See 16 CFR § 310.4(b)(1)(iii)(B)(i) and (ii). Entities that have been granted tax exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code are not necessarily Exempt Organizations for purposes of the National Do Not Call Registry. See, e.g., FTC v. National Consumer Council, Inc., and FTC v. Debt Management Foundation Services, Inc., at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/03/creditcouncel.htm. There, the FTC successfully challenged the status of a purported nonprofit organization whose role in fact was simply to generate leads for other firms which then charged consumers thousands of dollars in fees for their services. Exempt Organizations must wait three business days following the submission of their request to access registered telephone numbers before they may be given access to such numbers. For more information see EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS, below."

I hope THEY ALL GET CANCER!

WE HAVE BEEN GETTING THESE CALLS EVERY DAY, ONCE A DAY, FOR THE PAST 4 MONTHS.I FINALLY TOLD THEM TO SEND ME THE PAMPHLETS (9) ONCE & FOR ALL, TO GET THEM OFF MY BACK !! DID THAT WORK ? "HELL NO !!!" THE FOLLOWING DAY THEY CALLED AGAIN. I TOLD THE PERSON TO "STOP CALLING ME" OR I WOULD TURN THEM INTO THE FBI !!!!
STILL DIDN'T STOP THEM !! NEXT DAY THEY CALLED YET AGAIN !! KEEP IN MIND THAT I DID, INDEED TURN THEM INTO THE FBI !! TODAY, 9-27-10 THEY CALLED AGAIN !! HOLY SMOKES !!!!!
THIS IS OUT OF CONTROL !! SO AS I TYPE, MY HUSBAND IS PUTTING A BLOCK ON THEIR # !!!!
WHEN I GET THE PAMPHLETS, I WILL RETURN THEM WITH A VERY "NASTY LETTER" INSIDE.
NOT THREATING AT ALL, BUT BOY HOWDY, ARE THEY EVER GOING TO GET "A PIECEOF ME".
BEST OF LUCK TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU FOLKS. TAKE CARE AND MAY "OUR FATHER GOD" & "HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD & SAVIOUR" BE WITH YOU ALL !!!
                                                    DAWGG

This number calls about every other day, and never leaves a message. Comes up on caller ID as San Diego call. Any real charity would leave a message. I'm guessing it's a scam.

After reading about them here, I did a quick search: http://www.bbb.org/charity-reviews/national/b ... everett-wa-2051

" Year, State Incorporated: 2004, Washington
Affiliates: None
Stated Purpose: None ...

"Despite written BBB Wise Giving Alliance requests in the past year, this organization either has not responded to Alliance requests for information or has declined to be evaluated in relation to the Alliance?s Standards for Charity Accountability. While participation in the Alliance?s charity review efforts is voluntary, the Alliance believes that failure to participate may demonstrate a lack of commitment to transparency."

I love ComCast phone service.  I just push *60 and then *01# and the last incoming phone call (this 619-374-7749) is added to my block list.  When they call again, they will hear ComCast's recording say,

"In accordance with the owner of this telephone number, your call has been permanently blocked."

ComCast is GREAT!

Call all the time. No message

I got a call today at 4:30.  I answered and they hung up.  Caller ID only had the phone number listed, no name.