I, too, have received a call from an Indian man named Tony who was offering me Air Duct cleaning services.

I have received several such calls over the 3 months that I have had this new number. Regardless of how many times I tell them I'm on the DNC list, or ask to be removed from theirs, callers keep coming back time after time.

Calling this number back put me into a 'computer link server'  that appears to be coming from the Hamilton area.

In other cases, the numbers are dead within 24 hours.

They are  a cheap rip off duct cleaning company that doesnt have experience....they just use phrases from a legitimate company thats been around for over 100 years.They have No licensed personnel and no brains...just a bunch of donkeys

this number is calling me 3 to 4 times a day and it is pissing me off it is now 832pm and it is saturday f*** dont they have better things to do

same here, called at 5:20, dead air, i tried calling back, rang for a full 2 minutes and then started beeping.

fuk the indian scammers moth******ers

The trick is to get onto the "not worth the trouble" list of these telemarketing companies. I'm not talking about the "do not call" list where you politely ask to be taken off their calling list - most companies either illegally ignore the do not call list, or they follow the letter of the law which allows them to start calling you again once a new "campaign" is underway.Get on their "not worth the trouble" list. Telemarketing firms don't advertise the fact they have this list, but they all do. You might think the most effective way to get on this list is to be rude, loud, and abusive - but it's not. It takes 1/2 a second to hang up when somebody becomes abusive. There is no cost to the company - and certainly no cost to the management who don't give a s**t if their frontline workers go through hell every shift.The surest and best way to get on the "not worth the trouble" list is to WASTE THEIR TIME. Pretend to be interested in the duct cleaning services. Ask lots of questions. Pretend you don't understand what's being said, and ask them to repeat themselves. Tell them excitedly "You probably charge by the duct! I'm going to go count my floor registers right now!" When you come back after 2 minutes (don't leave them hanging for too long) say "okay that's six on the first floor ... let me go check the second!" Then you can go check the third floor, the fourth, the fifth, etc. Eventually the lesson will sink in that they are being played and that you just wasted ten or more minutes of their time. But if not, feel free to explain to the dense telemarketer at the other end that you just deliberately wasted their time - time they could have spent making a sale - and that they should tell their supervisor that your phone number is a profit killer.Here's the best part: if you employ this strategy, you'll soon see a dramatic reduction in the number of telemarketing calls you receive. And if a few thousand people employ this strategy, it collectively starts to break the profit model of the entire telemarketing industry. These sweatshops are relying on the fact a rep can make X calls per hour with a Y% conversion (sale) rate. If X drops significantly, Y no longer matters.