And the Democrats are nothing but a bunch of free loading beggars with their hands held out palms up for welfare,  handouts for the purchase of votes.. The Democrats blame the Republicans when they are in office, and blame the Republicans when they are out of office.  At what point in time does the democrats take responsibility for themselves. To what they are doing to this country.  I'll take God,  guns, and  a tax paying America any day to this Obama Democratic socialistic empire of only a few supporting the many.  Under the Democratic idealism the day will come when this country will cease to exist.  There will be the majority on welfare and handouts with nobody to work and pay the taxes.  Just like The Russians said back in the 60s,  American will be taken down from within and without firing a shot.  This is what's happening now and in the name of liberal democrats and the free loaders.  When this country no longer exists,  and it won't be long,   those who helped tear it down with their liberal entitlments and lack of willingness to work to keep it strong,  will be  asking what went wrong.  Democracy can fall within a single generation.  That generation is here and by the time they come out of their comas,  it will be too late.    When one person,  one group,  can dictate how the rest of America must obey and live,  it is not long for this world.

You are about as dumb as soup.....

Not getting enought welfare yet?  The biggest problem is that only a few are paying the tab while too many lazy a***s are sitting around with their hand held out  living off the tax payers.

If you are expecting the DNC to block calls for you,  it's not gonna happen.   Go to the DNC site and opt out of the service.  That's the best solution for your peace of mind....

Tell that to your caller.  This is a discussion board and doesn't have anything to do with anyone's callers.

STOP ALL THIS NONSENSE...the DO NOT CALL LIST is worthless.

you are wrong Shiela. I left the republican party because it cant control the rednecks, idiots, tea party guys and other extremists - they are no better than the Taliban and other extremists and need to be condemmed. instead the republicans do nothing. they promote people like sara palin, fox news (lovingly called fa*t news and its true that all it is ....mostly), morris, Hannity, rush l.,karl rove, et al. the republicans have become the laughing stock of the world...what a fall for the party of Lincoln, one of the greatest beings ever born and I love that man. But today republicans are the party of GOD, GUNS AND INTOLERANCE. If they need to come back up, they basically need to control the 20 -30% of the extremist elements within the party much like muslims need to control the extremist young males in their midst.

Do what I've done several months ago.  My phone rings 3 times, which is enough to answer if I know who's calling, then it goes to the annoying fax noise.  A lot of my unwanted calls have stopped.

Uhhh....Republicans control the House, and they have passed budgets twice in the last year.  Senate will not take up a budget because that would mean trying to live within a budget.  There will be no budget passed until 2017.

The national pandemic of telephone terrorism perpetrated by desperate criminal collection agencies and scam artists of every despicable sort is because they are trying to terrorize people who are naive enough to answer and submit to unsolicited telephone calls or written "collection" letters that have no legitimate legal debt associated with them or any of the companies, universities, or whomever else they claim to represent. Because most "little guys" were bankrupted by the criminal Wall St / Congress / Big Oil / Big Bankers / Big Business / Military / Robber Barons, so the desperate collection agencies are attempting to collect unpaid debts from innocent people by terrorizing them into submission. News reports claim that some of these nefarious rogue calls are originating from overseas, where the caller claims to be a relative down on his or her luck who needs hundreds or thousands of dollars to get out of trouble, a policeman or government agent threatening their unwitting victims with lawsuits, fines, garnishments, seizures of property and imprisonment, and any other unconscionable tactic they can use to terrify and swindle the unwary out of their life savings.

Word of advice. NEVER answer any calls you don't recognize or are not expecting. Use selective call rejection service if available, or switch to an Internet-based telephone service which provides comprehensive call rejection options. If rogue calls become chronic, turn off all the ringers on all of your phones except one, and set its volume to the minimum setting. Digital hardware call blockers, the popular "DIGITONE Call Blocker 10" for example, could help or do harm depending on how high-tech and aggressive the rogue callers are against your phone number. The more technology you use against them, the more likely they will use technology more aggressively against you to the point where your phone could ring more frequently from rogue calls and in middle of the night hours. So staying lower-tech could actually help to keep your phone a bit more under their unrelenting predatory radar. If you don't answer the call and the caller is legitimate, they will usually leave a voicemail after the first or second try. Rogue callers almost never leave voicemail messages because that could be used as evidence against them if it came to a lawsuit, albeit spoofed calls are backed by governments and corporations, so there is nothing the little guy can do against such illegitimate activities but to block and ignore them. If you receive a rogue letter in the mail warning you of some "collection" action against you, if you don't actually owe it, reply with a short letter stating that you don't owe it. Or if you do owe all or part of it, reply with something like "You claim I owe you a debt. Under §809 FDCPA, I request validation of this debt."

Only give them your name as THEY have written it to you (e.g. ?John Doe? not ?Jonathon Q. Doe? or however you normally sign your own name), address, and the account number they report. But if you do not owe the debt (zombie debt, aged debt, mistaken or stolen identity, forgery, etc.) state that you have never done any business with them or with the (alleged) original creditor of any kind and you expect the collection agency to close the matter, stop harassing you and take any bad credit marks they've caused off of your credit rating, and furthermore, that any further contact from them must be in writing on their official business correspondence letterhead. Send your letter to them a.s.a.p., always within thirty days, first class certified mail return receipt requested. If they refuse it and you get the letter back unopened, leave it unopened and save it in your files as evidence against them should they pursue legal action against you. If they did receive it and continue to pursue action against you, let them. The judge will throw it out of court. If the rogue collection agency sells your account to another rogue collection agency just tell them the claim has been proven invalid and offer to send them a copy of your letter to the previous rogue collection agency.

Warn all your friends about this rash of desperate collection agency terrorism, and how to combat it. Knowledge is power. The more you learn how to combat rogue collection agencies, back-taxes scammers, phishing scammers, "faith and family" scammers, political action committees and other low-life flimflammers, the more you will learn how easy it is to do.

Above all, keep a record of everything, of every rogue call w/ caller ID information displayed including time and date of each call. Maintain a complete file on any snail-mailed intimidation from rogue collection agencies, including copies of all correspondences and postal receipts. Reporting rogue calls on sites like 800notes.com, whocallsme.com, phoneowner.info is a great idea too, because many people find these sites by googling for the rogue number(s) after receiving calls from them.

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Start Here:
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs3-hrs2.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%C2%A7809+FDCPA
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=zombie-debt
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=slander-of-credit
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=limited-liability-company+collection-agency
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm
http://www.ehow.com/way_5849463_do-up-certified-dispute-letter.html
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Battling-Consumer-Debt-Collectors-Part-2-I-Do-Not-Owe-This-Debt
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Sample-letters-for-disputes-to-creditors--collectors-and-credit-bureaus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDCPA
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/Disputing ... ute-letter.html
(most say the above sample letter is too long and should be much shorter)
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/statue-limitations.html
http://www.spooftel.com/

Credit Report:
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

USPS:
https://www.usps.com/send/insurance-and-extra-services.htm

Other links:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/29 ... tors/index.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/category/12/103/358/
http://clarkhoward.com/topics/drop_dead_letter.html
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Information for filing complaints against rogue telephone calls, telephone harassment, false "bill collector" harassment, etc., in the United States and Canada (pursue legal action only as a last resort):

UNITED STATES

US National Do Not Call Registry, file complaint: https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov 1-877-382-4357
File complaint online: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
that is at www.ftc.gov

Federal Communications Commission
Telephone toll free:  1-888-225-5322
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html
File complaint online: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumers.html
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

FCC Abandoned Calls Complaint form:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/1088D-R.pdf
email:  fccinfo@fcc.gov

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/us/


INTERNET CRIME:
File report for Internet Crime at:
Internet Crime Complaint Centre
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx


CANADA

RCMP Phone busters
Telephone toll free: 1-888-495-8501
Mon-Fri 8:30-5:20 pm (Eastern Time)
E-mail: info@phonebusters.com
RCMP Website is at: http://www.phonebusters.com  
File complaint online:  https://www.recol.ca/intro.aspx?lang=en
(Register with a password and then can continually file complaints)

Canada National Do Not Call Registry:
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Telephone toll free to File A Complaint: 1-866-580-3625
(to withdraw a complaint is 877-249-2782)
CRTC online complaints form: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/pfplin-fccoin-eng
that is at  www.crtc.gc.ca

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/canada/

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Received a call from this number a short time ago,which I did not recognize,and no one left a message!

Then why don't they attempt to speak about their "powerful movement" to the people who've told us they tried to answer the calls? And why don't they leave a message when it rolls over to the answering machine?  

What is it that not-for-profit groups do, anyway?  They typically spread a message of some kind and they raise money to pay for their continued existence.  Not much difference between that and the functions of a not-for-profit "political group".

If your phone or phone service has a blocking feature, block them.  It will ring once and blocking will take over...eventually the quit...or change numbers.  Then  you have to block that one.  I have 12 blocked so far.

If your phone or phone service has a blocking feature.  Block them.  You'll get one ring and then the block kicks in after awhile they stop all together...or change to a different number and you have to block the new one.

Caller ID read 'Out of Area', don't answer unknown callers

had a call today.  didnot answer.  put it on call block

I traced this phone number back to Americans United For Change.  They are a powerful movement bringing together independent voices for new policy priorities and real leadership - to focus on the elected officials on the issues that really matter to the lives of everyday Americans and get America moving in the right direction again.

These people are not a political group but a not-for-profit group.

Got a call from this number yesterday and did not answer.  Then, 20 minutes later 213-221-3704 called. Once again I did not answer.

202-470-6958 caller id is only Washington DC at 11:40am 2/4/2013 picked up call but said nothing and no call connected; I believe this is telemarketing or robocall and when this caller id occurs again, I will not answer. I am registered with Do Not Call so this may be survey and/or political but I am Independent and I will not participate with these intruders.

No name on ID and no message left.  2nd call in 5 days.

best thing we did was purchase the Panasonic KX-TG A641.  The auto blocking feature of this one is great.

These b*****ds call every day

David,  you need to advise the ones who are calling you.  This is a discussion board and has nothing to do with any callers to anyone.

We are on a no call listing......WE DO NOT WISH TOY RECEICVE ANY CLALS OF THIS NATURE

No name on ID and no message left.

Sheila, you really need to educate yourself.   It is the responsibility of Congress to pass budgets.   A budget has been submitted every year by the President.    Who has the majority in the Congress?  Hint, it is not the Democrats.  Turn off the Fox News, it is rotting your brain.

Get caller id.  I do not pick up this type of message or anything from a business.  If I do not know the person, I let it ring.  Put the ring as light as possible and play some music and let it ring.

Get caller id.  If I don't know the person or if it is a business, I do not pick up.  I let the phone ring.  If they want the phone to ring all day, that is there problem.  You put the ring as light as possible.

You, Shelia, are nuts!  The Regressives want to take away MY Social Security and Medicare...thanks to your St. Ronald, they have already denied me all of my SS....
My husband answered the phone and said the message was, "The Regressives are going to shut down the government if we don't cut SS & MC....screw that!    And I haven't even been close enuf to MY President to do what you say we do....is that what you did to the Bush Factory?  

Like I said, you are NUTS!

wants calls stopped