I've been fairly diligent in registering complaints about telephone solicitors to both the federal and Pennsylvania state no-call list enforcers.
For some years, it seemed effective. Even got a check for a few dollars from the Penna Attorney General as my part of some class action suit they brought against a violator.
Over the past year or so, however, I've been getting a stream of lame letters from the Penna Attorney General with statements so the effect that telemarketers are going offshore and/or are using VOIP providers to spoof and relay calls to the extent that there's nothing that can be done.
This is coincident with a sharp rise in telemarketing calls to both my home phones and my cell phone (the cell phone at .32 per call yet.... and these guys' robo calling equipment even leaves voicemail messages....so there's no escape via selective answering).
"Lame" bc somehow I think that if those telemarketing calls were, instead, threats to some person in high political office, that effective action would be quickly taken.
Can anybody who really knows comment? Is No-Call List enforcement really dead or dying?
Is there any technological solution here or on the horizon - especially for cell phone users? Challenge/Response? Gold Lists?