Before you quickly sign up for the Governments' 16 million dollar "Do Not Call List". (Yes, that is what we tax payers have paid, God only knows how much it will cost annually to maintain and enforce it.) Consider the following:

Check the FTC's Question/Answer Page. You will find that common carriers (such as long-distance phone companies and airlines), banks and credit unions, and the business of insurance, all charities, and political solicitations are ALL exempt. Furthermore they will have access to this list, and be free to call you! I bet putting your name on this list will increase the number of Telemarketing calls you get.

Telemarketing calls are made for only one reason. They work. If you are getting telemarketing phone calls it is because you have in the past made telemarketing profitable, and hence got yourself on sucker lists.

Believe me, if no one would ever purchase or make a contribution to a telemarketer, there would be no Telemarketing Calls. Companies, and "worthy causes" pay people to make these calls because it makes money for them.

The above facts were pointed out to me by an IBM representative back in 1963, and from that time on I have made certain that unsolicited calls wanting me to: contribute, buy something, or accept a "free" gift, have never been profitable. It works. I do not get two telemarketing calls a month. If I did I would not be able to forward my home phone to my cell phone, and go away for months with no ability to cancel the forwarding.