Is the “Do Not Call” registry doing any good? I don’t think so

Hello folks,

Welcome back to the blog, hope you’re finding the articles I’m sharing of value.

On this post, I’m going to give my thoughts on an article that I’ve read from Kim Komando and her staff about the do not call registry.

While I think it may be of help, we still get calls from unknown callers, or callers who have strange caller ID. I still say that if you don’t know the number, let it go to voicemail. Find out what bank of phone numbers your doctors office, hospital or the like might call you from so you can answer those calls appropriately.

The fact is, scammers are not going to be stopping these practices any time soon because they know they can get at you, the unsuspecting consumer.

The article is titled Here’s what adding your number to the National Do Not Call Registry does and it was written today.

There are some things I like about this article. I like the fact that the FTC is trying to combat the Robo call problem and the report talks about what they’re trying to do as VOIP and other technologies are used.

There are 6 statistics that come from the report. They are:

• FTC received 1.8 million complaints about robocalls and almost 900,000 complaints about live callers.
• • Imposter robocalls accounted for 210,000 complaints, while live imposter calls attracted 77,000 complaints.
• Robocalls about warranties and insurance almost topped 180,000 complaints.
• New Hampshire has the highest registration rate of 95,648 numbers per 100,000 people.
• Alaska has the lowest registration rate of just over 50,000 numbers per 100,000 people. It also has the lowest number of active registrations, almost 400,000 numbers. 
• California tops the list of active registrations with over 27 million on the system.

If you receive a lot of scam calls, it may be where you live. The states that reported the most complaints per 100 thousand, according the article include:

• Delaware (1,537 per 100K population).
• Ohio (1,246 per 100K population).
• Arizona (1,206 per 100K population).
• Maryland (1,180 per 100K population).
• Virginia (1,144 per 100K population).

There’s more to this article, but these are the stats tat I want o pass along.

Its unfortunate that they don’t follow the rules, but this is to be expected. But how effective is the registry as a whole? Complaints are quite high, which tells me that it isn’t effective at all.

I guess we’ll have to see what happens overall as the tech improves and the FTC enforces new rules or changes what they have.

Thanks for reading, make it a great day!