Cox Sold My Phone Number After 1 Day

I feel your pain.  I don't think the telephone provider industry is going to be particularly cooperative in combating something that is an opportunity for them to sell profitable call blocking services.  While I cannot prove that Cox doesn't sell numbers to unscrupulous criminal harassment outfits (My term for them) I can't prove they do either... by attack involves researching numbers... finding ones that actually work and identify that rthey're not spoofed then go after their providers.  I'm currently battling a robocall scammer repeatedly telling me I've won a Bahama cruise (four calls daily and counting)... I'mm emailing their corporate offices and CC'ing the message to the FCC detailing the call, the number, and the fact that I've unsuccessfully tried to get cooperation from the for lending their services to what amounts to a criminal enterprise... and by having attempted to report this I've established that they are now doing it knowingly.

It may boil down to having a class action suit filed against providers who furnish telephone services to criminals who then violate federal law.  I'd hesitate before going after my own provider with something that may well be circumstantially supported but cannot be proven.

Hopefully an investigation might expose the phone numbers market that distributes these "leads" and at least slow that down.   I wouldn't hold my breath though... the government has bigger fish to fry.  It's unlikely anything can be done about calls originating from outside the country- though it would be nice to be able to, without additional charge, block all numbers coming from outside our borders as well as spoofed numbers- a strategy itself tipping off the fact that the criminal knows what (s)he's doing is wrong.

I got this in an email, pay heed, Cox! The FCC today told the telephone companies in no uncertain terms that they CAN block unwanted robocalls for customers like you. Here's a direct quote: "We are giving the green light for robocall-blocking technology, declaring that these market-based solutions can be offered without violating our call-completion rules. The FCC wants to make it clear: telephone companies can and in fact should offer consumers robocall-blocking tools." This is huge! When we launched this campaign, telephone company lobbyists claimed that federal law required the phone companies to connect all calls, even robocalls. State Attorneys General disagreed, and requested that the FCC issue clarification. We also believed that the phone companies could stop these calls. And with your help, we sent more than 50,000 of your messages to the FCC asking it to authorize the phone companies to block unwanted robocalls.

Do the telemoochers address you by name, "Mr. Agreene?"  Besides Cox, who else has your name tied to your number?  They also could have "sold" it.

Just registering with the DNC puts your name and number on call lists.  When telemarketers register with the DNC, the FTC provides our numbers (registered numbers) to remove from their call lists.  I'm sure moneygrubbing telemarketers can be trusted to protect that information.

If the telemoochers are not addressing you by name, well, whatever number you have isn't new.  It's a valid number, so they've been calling it for years.