“Being on the National Do-Not-Call Registry doesn’t mean a thing anymore.”
I noticed that too. It is really too bad.
The only effective solution would be for nobody to fall for any of these calls — that wouldn’t make it worth their while.
The telemarketers reel in enough suckers percentage-wise to make their efforts pay off big time.
I had a friend who took a temporary gig working in an enormous warehouse space set up as a telemarketing boiler room with hundreds of phones. She made good commissions on each mark she could talk into signing on...but she soon quit because it's a pressure job most normal, moral people can't handle.
Leni