# Have you encountered this (new?) scam/pitch?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-encountered-this-new-scam-pitch/662649>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 4, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-encountered-this-new-scam-pitch/662649 "2013-07-04T17:08:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-encountered-this-new-scam-pitch/662649/41 "2013-07-29T17:50:52Z")

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> [@legalsnugs](#):
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> Whatever happened to the “Do Not Call” law in the U.S.? I’ve been out of the country for 5+ years but I thought that was supposed to end calls like these. I live in the UK now and only occasionally (I yell at them to never call here again and hang up and it’s getting less frequent) get a sales call, usually for a legal claim: “Have you recently been in an automobile accident? We can help!” I wish we had a DNC law here.

It keeps legitimate businesses from pestering you.

It does _not_ prevent scammers from pestering you - they have no interest in obeying the law anyway, and their caller ID info is spoofed anyway so the odds of being caught and fined are fairly small :(.

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-encountered-this-new-scam-pitch/662649/42 "2013-07-29T20:00:52Z")

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Listen to **Mama** , she’s completely right.

Personally, I think that it was a big mistake to allow the exceptions to the DNC list.

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