Telemarketers Ignore Do Not Call List

So much for silence from telemarketers at the cherished dinner hour, or any other hour of the day. Complaints to the government are up sharply about unwanted phone solicitations, raising questions about how well the federal “do-not-call” registry is working. The biggest category of complaint: those annoying prerecorded pitches called robocalls that hawk everything from lower credit card interest rates to new windows for your home. Robert Madison, 43, of Shawnee, Kan., says he gets automated calls almost daily from “Ann, with credit services,” offering to lower his interest rates. “I am completely fed up,” Madison said in an interview. “I’ve repeatedly asked them to take me off their call list.” When he challenges their right to call, the solicitors become combative, he said. “There’s just nothing that they won’t do”/ Associated Press . More here. (SR file photo)

Question: Are you on the do-not-call list? Has that stopped or slowed-down telemarketers?