This is a normal illegal activity by telemarketing firms mainly. I get them all the time. I recommend to those I talk with to always have CALLER ID on your phones and never answer any call that you do not recognize. An important caller will leave a message or begin to. You can always catch a legitimate caller.
I do that with my personal cell, but we can't screen calls like that on the business line. If we want to eat, we have to take every call.
If a call turns out to be spam, or some other non-business related thing, we save it to our business phone's contact list and label it accordingly.
That helps a bit, but we still field new ones every week.
These are phone bank callers who are routing the calls through the internet so they give false caller ID #s in order to hide and harass people for services and money.
They’re scam artists working out of boiler room operations, many of which are offshore. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the do not call list, they have worked an illegal way around that and they stay anonymous. They’re very, very persistent. They put your number into a robocall system and the calls go out automatically. The operator is not doing any of the dialing and they only come on if you answer with a voice, not a voice mail recording. It’s a heck of a racket preying on people who don’t know better. They have a million different schemes.
Until something is done on a national level to stop them, all we can do is hang up and ignore them.
Yes, if anyone’s # is on the do not call registry. These clowns cannot call. They still will from time to time. Just say you are on the list. That shuts them up for me.