We have a Do Not Call order, and it worked pretty well while Bush was President.
Now we get numerous unwanted calls. It seems obvious that Obama and his stooges have been bought off, and the Do Not Call orders no longer mean anything.
We did too. It seems to have gone the way of the prohibition of billboards on Interstate highways. For a few years back in the eighties and nineties you could actually see the scenery.
Tele-spammers just have no regard for it by either using a recorded message or not even bothering to check it against numbers they are tele-spamming.
Recorded messages make you wait through the entire spiel to get to press a number to "be taken off their calling list" which never happens. Or if you press "1" to speak to an agent and ask to be taken off the list, that also never happens.
I used to keep an air horn near the phone to give the jerks a good blast when they called.
Then I got a bright idea and it has worked fairly well for me.
I live in a subdivision, let's say it is Osprey Point, and I utilize the name of the subdivision whenever I answer a call, with one addition: "Osprey Point Police Department, how may I direct your call?" This works very well if the caller is a live person and not a recording. Calls from loan offerings, Canadian pharmacies (which are really based in India but use Canadian area codes) credit card services, etc. have ceased. And if the call is a recording where I have to press a number to "reach an agent" then I say, "Not sure how you got this number sir, but this is Detective Williams of the Osprey Point Police Department and I would greatly appreciate it if you immediately remove this number from your future callings."
I used to get about a dozen calls a week to "upgrade my free Google listing by pressing 1 to speak to one of our agents" and now I have not received any calls for the past month.