Does reporting unwanted calls work?

[Gman]

The Do Not Call Registry is an enormous joke, and the telemarketers, primarily off-shore, know it. They're easily spoofing caller ID. If the call is from the same area code and prefix, it's likely a marketing call.

I had a guy that had the same area code and prefix as mine that kept calling me to tell me he had just received a call from my number. I kept telling him that it wasn't me. I finally had to block his number because he never could understand what was going on and was being a spam caller of his own.

Now you can pay for a service that will screen and block these calls. I found the crowd-sourced apps really sucked.

The thing that really bothers me is when I block these numbers on Verizon. Verizon is kind enough to then notify me that they blocked a call from X number, and sometimes allow them to leave a voicemail even though the call was supposedly "blocked".