Australia - https://www.donotcall.gov.au/
Canada - https://lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/en/Consumer/Register-your-number/!/
United Kingdom - https://www.tpsonline.org.uk/
United States - https://www.donotcall.gov/index.html
Belgium - https://www.dncm.be/nl/home
the United States one is very funny
When I did it, you could opt out electronically for 5 years, but a lifetime opt out requires you to mail a printed form. I’m guessing the lenders have something to do with that and are banking on most people not having a printer.
But yes, I love their 90s clip art.
Pretty much any brick-and-mortar office supply store I’ve seen provides copy machine and printing services. Probably faxing too, though I haven’t checked.
I mean, I don’t do much in paper any more, but I’m pretty sure that most people need – even if only very occasionally – to print things.
Looks like things have changed:
Will my registration expire?
No, your registration will never expire. The FTC will only remove your number from the Registry if it’s disconnected and reassigned, or if you ask to remove it.
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/national-do-not-call-registry-faqs
These list also make you a likely target for scam calls.
How do these lists make you a likely target for scam calls?
Pretend you are running a scam call centre. Wouldn’t you like a curated list of known real phone numbers and names of people that are likely to answer their phones because they are used to only getting legitimate calls?
They have a list of valid numbers and since they are scammers they don’t care if they are breaking the law by calling you.
Jokes on them. I haven’t answered an unknown number in years. Probably why I get so few scam calls.
They give your phone number to telemarketers and say “please don’t call this number”. I doubt anyone in the government follows up and punishes any telemarketers that ignore their strong request.
Scamming outfits often use these do not call lists
Italy too. And it works like a charm. I’m joking, it’s not working at all.
- Silence all calls (or unknown numbers only).
- Send them all to voicemail.
Never care about scam calls again.
In India, you can register yourself with a “Do Not Disturb” service through your carrier. It works surprisingly well.
Yeah, but can I use the Indian service to make calling my number from there illegal? I hate to point out the obvious, but most of the scam call centers are there.
Nice try, fed.
Brazil - https://www.naomeperturbe.com.br/
In my experience it works.
France - https://www.bloctel.gouv.fr/
Tbh it doesn’t really reduce the number of unsolicited spam calls that much. On the other hand there is a fixed list of prefixes that can be used for these type of calls that you can directly block: https://www.arcep.fr/actualites/actualites-et-communiques/detail/n/plan-de-numerotation-050922.html.
In France it’s those prefixes “0162, 0163, 0270, 0271, 0377, 0378, 0424, 0425, 0568, 0569, 0948, 0949”
Spain - https://www.listarobinson.es
In the Netherlands we used to have this, but the rules changed: unsolicited commercial calls are completely prohibited (so you don’t need to register and the registry has been shut down since 2021)
The Dutch coming in clutch with sensible laws once again!
Turkiye - https://iys.org.tr/
Finland: You’ll have to call this one and it works only inside Finland https://asml.fi/kieltopalvelut/
