Weird cell phone numbers calling me, anyone else?

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by lilypad

Needs to be a law

There is, but no law enforcement authority has any interest whatsoever in enforcing it, so it is regularly violated with impunity.

However -- remember that if if someone calls you and you think it is illegal, they are presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and that requires your testimony to establish, and there is no admissible evidence in existence that they called you. They are protected by the same constitution that you are, presuming that the calls are even originating in the USA, which they almost certainly are not.

But. I have an idea.

People like me and you ought to take up a collection (there are millions of us) and offer a reward of, say $10,000 to anybody who blows the whistle on the violators of Do Not Call. Once the reward is in place and there is cooperation from the US Justice Department, when you get a call, your politely explain the reward to the caller and tell them how to report the source of the offending call and collect the reward.

[CptnRn]

I get weird phone calls like that all the time. My cell phone service does not allow me to block numbers but it does allow me to assign a silent ring tone to the, so if they call again I won't even hear the phone ring.

At my home I bought a Panasonic phone system that allows me to block around 15 phone numbers and my ATT phone service allows me to block another 20 or so. Both are full now.

and I'm all ready on the Federal do not call list, not that it seems to do any good.