It is most irritating to continue to get calls like this one when we are on every DO NOT CALL list that I've ever heard of.   There should be a way to control these predators that pray on seniors....

Got another call just now from this number.  They are calling me at least once, and sometimes twice, every day.  Pushed 1 and held on until someone finally answered, then asked to be removed from their calling list.    I told the man who answered that this was harrassment.  This was the second time that I have held on until I reached a person, but the last time, the person I reached hung up on me as soon as I said to remove me from their list.

Caller ID says I've gotten 3 calls from this number. I always let the machine take the call and they never leave a message. With 2-5 calls a day like this, despite my being on both national and state Do Not Call lists, I'm afraid I'm going to have to pay for a new unlisted number and start giving out only a Goggle voice number. I'm retired, home all day, and these people are driving me crazy.

when will you people leave us alone.  go sell pencils on the street

I have blocked this number and yet they call all the time.  I have used my 30 block list which they are on so the number only rings one.  but now I AM GETTING DIFFERENT NUMBERS from different scammers, it is hard to keep my list up.

Received call from this number 2/28/2013.  Did not pick up and caller ID showed was from New Haven, Ct.
No message - I blocked number - I thought it looked familiar - found out that I had received call from 1-203-497-3661 within the last week and had blocked that number.  Guess they'll keep trying!  I get so mad at these idiots who won't leave you in peace!

didn't answer an unknown number...no message left...caller ID said Connecticut

Called at 8:50pm 02/25/13. Did not pick up. Thank You for your reviews. Sincerely, Richard Platt

Please quit calling me.  I have all the insurance I will ever nee.  Everything is cover my drug, my hospital my a**.  DO NOT CALL ME!! EVER AGain

That is the one thing you do not do. They now know they have a LIVE #.Same for the internet.

These jack***es call my house every few days, with some kind of official-sounding Reverse 911 police kind of message trying to scare me into buying some kind of life alert system. My 86 year old mother in law gets them too and thinks it's a "nice police officer who's concerned about my safety." Idiot scumbags preying on senior citizens. We're on the DNC list but their robo dialer doesn't care.

Recently started SCAM preying on Senior Citizens.

Caller ID said CONNECTICUT left no message.

Googled and learned its a scam on senior citezens?

A couple of time, I receive phone calls from 1 (203) 497 3681. I googled this number and found out that these are some sort of Senior Alert products salespeople. I certainly don't need such an "Alert".  If I continue receiving such calls, I will contact the relelvant authorities. I've heard that such callers often change their telephone numbers so that people could never get read of them.  My question is: could the telephone companies do something about these "chains" of unwanted calls?  With the current technology it has to be possible.

calls three times a week

Answered and no response

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/

I did not answer, no message left.

BE AWARE: If you pick up on calls that are these marketing scams then you let them know that they have reached a valid phone number.  They sell the numbers to other marketing scams. I now screen ALL calls.  as I see it, if the call is important, then a message will be left.

I then save the number with a ZZZ-NoAnswer name, then next time they call, I will know by the look up and the ZZZ places them at the bottom of my phone list. Right now I have 164 of them.

got a call from this number several times... offering free medical alert device for seniors... pressed 5 to be removed...hope it works

These people call me at all hours of day and night. last night it was almost 9:00 my time, MST. I hit 1 and 0 repeatly, sometimes this will shut off recording, but this time I got music, put on hold, tied up my phone for 5 minutes, then some woman came on and asked if I wanted to hear it over again! I told her NO, I want you to take this number off and stop calling me. She then said, "you want this number off?' and hung up.  Maybe this will be the end to these stupid calls, I am not interested in what ever it is they are selling.

unwanted robo call and hangup

Stupid solicitor calls for seniors. Calls me at least once a week even tho I have pressed 5 to be removed!

Ken, That medical alert system is anything BUT free!  Scamming telemarketers!  Do not answer your phone.

Caller ID says, "Connecticut", but I let it go to answering machine and they hung right up.  I then further investigated the number and they are trying to scam seniors into buying "Life Alert" type products and services.  Total telemarketing scanners illegally circumventing the National Do Not Call list.  Don't pick up the phone!!!

offering free medical alert system for seniors