Turn telemarketers calls into CASH. Yep, it works.

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81. Yep - the robocallers are the worst.

I can speak to a person - politely, as long as they extend that courtesy to me, and tell them not to call again. Robocalls? What the hell can you do with those?

There is a company - no one is quite sure who they are - that has been calling homes in Las Vegas for years now and nowbody can track them or, apparently, stop them. They present as the "Nevada green energy study group" and since they aren't selling anything - on the phone - they are not breaking the law.

The calls come in batches - once they start on a given day, they'll call four, five, six, eight times. Never after about 6pm, never before about 8am. Sometimes they'll skip a few days; I think when they're changing numbers - but they'll be right back at it before long. They call on weekdays and weekends.

If you stay on the line and try to connect to a human, you might get through - you might not. If you do, and tell the person at the end of the line to take your number off their list, they'll laugh at you and hang up. Or curse you out and hang up. But the calls don't stop.

They use mobile numbers - burn phones, literally - so you can never be sure if an unknown number is them. If you don't answer, the recording ties up your answering machine for about three minutes. Sometimes it doesn't disconnect immediately afterward, too. It is nightmarish.

They've been reported to the FCC, to the NV AG . . . hell, I'd report them to the Mob if I thought they could make them stop calling.

The worst thing is that its a scam. A few people have reported that, believing what they hear, they schedule an appointment for their "free" energy assessment . . . and that is a whole new kettle of very rotten fish.