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

[Mama_Zappa]

@legalsnugs

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 :(.

[Lynn_Bodoni]

Listen to Mama, she’s completely right.

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