So this "thing" has called me for two weeks straight. It started on February 13th and carried through the entire weekend, day and night. By Monday morning, it stopped. The calls began again on Feb 20th, and haven't stopped since. They are primarily during the evening and night time hours. They were all "private" calls, until somehow they managed to forget to block the number. Has anyone figured how to put a stop to these calls?

I received a call today from the same number person wasn't able to speak english properly. He claimed being an employee of Government of Canada stating that he need to activate my account for do not call list & stated that I will get a phone call with a 5 digit access code.

Person called back again and was asking for same access code. the access code was from craiglist..

I asked the person about his name & address, he was not willing to provide that information..
Beware of such calls..

Nobody on the other side.

Some Mid Eastern Indian sounding male whom I could barely understand his English started to tell me something about lowering my interest rate. I cut him off and hung up.

Got a call around 5pm, a woman was asking to speak to the owner of the house.
Had to get her to repeat the question several times because the call quality was so poor.

When I asked why she was calling, she wouldn't give me an answer. Just asked again to speak to the owner of the house.

Got a call from this number tonight,
It was a guy with an indian accent claiming to be calling from CBS in Buffalo
he started by asking me to confirm my name and address (which he had ALL of the information correct)
I told him no- that wasn't correct and that i wasn't interested.
I am also on the DNC list, but apparently this list is being sold to telemarketers? I hope not!!
Anyway, clearly a call centre in India, using skype.