Also, I'm in SK.

Also call me. No message.  We are on a national DO NOT CALL list.

A recorded message said that, 'Congratulations, I had just won....' so I hung up and blocked the damn number from harassing me again.  I use Shaw digital phone and blocked it.  I tried to punch in the whole number to block it, but Shaw's system would not let me, so I blocked it by using last-call blocking:
*80
Then #01# to block the last number
Bastards.

I'm in voctoria.The number, (514) 204-9988, called me @ 3:18 PM, Thursday 25, 2010.

They sometimes don't answer because they use automatic dialers, which call 3 people simultaniously, and if you and another callee answer at approximately the same time, the machine accepts only the first answered party. The machine therefore cuts off the other answerees because they answered later (slightly).  

Automatic dialers are used by telemarketers and survey companies.

It appears a crack in the Earth opened to the depths of Hell and out crept these sleazy marketers.

Travel points. I pressed 1 and had to raise my voice to speak over the person who would not pause for breath. Told them to remove me from their call list.These folks don't respect the Do Not Call list. They can call unlisted numbers because they just have a machine dial at random. It must suck to work in a place like that if you have any integrity whatsoever.