They call ALL the time, day and night, it doesn't matter how early or late. They even call on Saturdays and Sundays. I hang up on them and they still do not get the message and when I don't answer the phone my phone rings and rings, sometimes up to 20 rings. My telephone number is unlisted. How do they get your number? My telephone number is registered with the National Do Not Call Registry and I still get calls. I donated money through the mail to Children's Cancer and Veterans fund once and my nightmare began. Telemarketer Companies should be legally banned.

As a commercial fundraiser, ACS is expected to honor an internal no-call list and add any number upon request. Break that order, the FTC declares, and ''the telemarketer may be subject to a fine of up to $16,000.'' They are also covered to a point by other regulations for telepests, so you can complain to the FTC about abandoned calls, bot calls to mobile phones, and so on.

Like all non-sales calls, these are exempt from federal and state no-call registries, even though the call centers executing the recurring campaigns are very much for-profit and pocket most of what is collected. At times the ''charity'' client is itself a closet profit enterprise, compounding the deception. This has been exactly the unholy business model attributed to ACS and its many sound-alike bogus charity clients.

Because the amounts collected are rather small, these call centers are quite motivated to repeatedly hassle you. The worst of the industry will "reload" a donor multiple times a year, preferring forgetful and easily confused victims. Most if not all such phone farms assume that your no-call order, when given verbally or by keypress, conveniently expires when a client's campaign ends.

In comments from November 2012 and June 2013 linked below, I've discussed simple steps I took to rid myself of a major pain fundraising boiler room by politely rubbing its face in federal laws. You will note that I never rely on verbal cease-communication demands.

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-914-294-2543/7#p480457181536419195
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-7f0655b0510e7ef/aicr#p572275391492426506

Nice softsoaping from a huge charity fraud shop which would file for "restructuring" bankruptcy seven months later.

Large telemarketer for charities declares bankruptcy  [excerpts]
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/large-t ... kruptcy/2170266

"Founded in 1999, the telemarketer keeps as much as 85 percent of every dollar donated by the public. It solicits for dozens of charities, including nine of the 50 worst named in the Times'/CIR series. .....

The telemarketer has been repeatedly disciplined by state regulators for misleading donors in its fundraising calls. Last year it was banned from soliciting in Iowa; last month it was fined $45,000 by Michigan's attorney general for deceiving senior citizens. The company denied any wrongdoing.
......
The company also owes more than $15 million in unpaid taxes to the IRS and more than $1 million in unpaid state tax."

Brian and Rita:

Your callers do not maintain this site or this web page. Your callers cannot magically determine which numbers should not be called based on anonymous comments. You cannot expect compliance with your orders until you deliver them *directly* to your caller, a commercial fundraiser which has been named several times already.

Can you please not set a bad example to other users for years to come?

It is unwise to publish a phone number you meant to protect in an open forum where any data harvester and scammer can find it. I've reported this comment so that Admin can redact it.

Do not call this number any more.

Do not call me any more.

Someone please put these pain in the a$s people out of business and tell them to go to school and get a real job not a slacker job.

advertising call 877-230-6266  -  they leave no message, but act very friendly.

They called me asking did I receive my pledge card. I said no. But I never donated $40.00 as the recorder claimed I donated. I'm confused and don't have time for this foolery.

If you have Verizon FIOS you can block these 877 numbers...it will give you peace.

I've begun using the call blocking feature on my phone.  I get one ring and no more.  Wish I could stop them altogether.

Associated Community Services 877-230-6266 and 877-241-8302 Calls 2 & 3 times a day

Associated Community Services understands that state and federal Do Not Call laws are the most recognized consumer protection initiatives in modern history. Consumer requests to be placed on a client?s Do Not Call list are handled daily. Associated Community Services immediately addresses all concerns and complaints and incorporates applicable federal and state Do Not Call lists to remove any numbers from our leads prior to donor contact.

Dick Cole - Executive Team
After 38 years in the telemarketing industry, it could be said that Dick?s interest in professional fundraising became his life?s work when he realized that it was possible to help people, while also building a successful business for his family. Remembering his father?s words: ?Be bold. Be good. And never be afraid to help others so that you make a difference in this world,?

The Company is Associated with the American Teleservices Association (ATA) and embraces its code of ethics completely.

To apply for a position with Associated Community Services, please visit Career Builder for more information

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Companies supposedly raised funds for -

Junior Michigan Thunderbirds (a local youth wheelchair basketball team)

James T. Reynolds II,
President / CEO
The Breast Cancer Society

Glen Svensson, President
Disabled Veterans Services, Inc.

Erica A. Harvey
Founder & Executive Director
Breast Cancer
Charities of America

Rose M. Perkins, CEO
Children's Cancer Fund of America

Greg Anderson
Founder & CEO
Cancer Recovery
Foundation International

Hard to keep nonprofit  agencies from calling. Believe they are exempt from the no-call list

this number and other 1866 numbers kept calling.  I don't answer them, don't know who they are.
They need to stop calling and ask for money saying is donations, or collection agency, or some other kinds of services...

I  too have been called by this number. Suggestion, have your Phone service provider Block this number

They call when you pledge money and don't pay to american cancer society. Like a debt collection agency, I don't donate to ANYONE over the phone anymore now that they have mafia after me.

These people have been calling me from 8am to 8pm from this (and several other numbers) on a daily basis. I have never actually done any kind of business with them and have no idea how they got my number or why they persist in calling.  It's been several months now, and they have called every single day. I have threatened, begged, and pleaded with them to stop.  It does no good.  Most are robo-calls but the few times I actually get to speak to someone, they claim to be ACS. I have explained to them that I work night shifts and sleep during the day and their calls constantly wake me up.  Unfortunately, as a medical professional, I need to be within telephone reach at all times, so I can not simply turn off my phone.  I have reported this number to every agency known to man.  I researched them via the Internet and found out they are a quasi-legal organization called Associated Community Services which keeps keeps the lion?s share of virtually every donation it collects. I read that "at least four attorneys general across the country and one Secretary of State, have gone after the company for a whole slew of alleged violations, including engaging in manipulative, high-pressure fundraising tactics, and deceiving its donors." Obviously, my only recourse seems to be to change my phone number.  How sad that nothing can be done to stop these scamsters.

they keep calling at all hours of the day, day in and day out. Don't know who they are because I don't pick up the phone.

Calling every day....early to late....wouldn't give anyone over the phone...but they don't take NO for an answer.
What a way to earn a 'living'!  Some kind of cancer fund....don't believe them.

They call repeatedly, 2 or 3 times a day. I gave to them once for a veteran's fund, only to find out that the veteran's get only about 6% of the donations. They are professional fund raisers, getting most of the money for themselves. I will never give to them, again.

They called saying they were some breast cancer charity and said I made a pledge over the phone but have not sent in any money yet.  I told them there must be a mistake because I didn't recall making any pledge and as a rule, never commit to anything over the phone.  Then she got rather nasty with me so I hung up.

My mother has dementia.

stop calling  #$&^*(*&^@#$%^^)(_)(*&^

These people call several times a day, everyday they said they are from a Children Cancer fundraiser group and asked if i would donate money, first of all they hit me in a weak spot, if on the level i would have donated.
Then i thought about it, no one from this group has ever called me before and they call every day seven days a week, several times a day, and when i do not answer they leave no message and "I am on the no call list", State and national yet they keep calling and they called the first time which should not have happened, lastly i have a non-listed number in which i pay for each month. Wrong, wrong, wrong. and illlegal to boot!

We keep getting calls from this number even though we're listed on the National Do Not Call Registry. They call but never leave messages.

This repeat caller is from Associated Community Services. I called back and got the recording informing me they are calling on behalf of several non-profit organizations. I can only assume I now have a collection agency of sorts calling me since I never re-issued the $10 donation I made to the Breast Cancer Fund that was lost in the mail. If this is the case....they (Breast Cancer Fund) will NEVER receive another donation and will receive a call from me informing them to stop or I will file a complaint against them with the Feds. Absolute bull and I do not have to deal with this crap.

HELLO
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO STOP THESE PEOPLE FROM CALLING MY HOUSE ALL DAY AND HALF THE NIGHT. SICK AND TIRED  OT THERE FUND RASIERS

this # calls all day long and i tell them not to & they dont listen they just have someone else call its super anoying!!!

I been getting call from this number. They don't leave a message