National Do not Call List: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/

Something good from the Government in Canada...

Effective Sept 30th, 2008, you will be able to place your phone number on a Block list for telemarketers.

The National Do Not Call List (DNCL) gives consumers a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls. The National DNCL Rules introduce new responsibilities for Canada's telemarketers.

If you are a consumer you can choose to reduce the number of telemarketing calls you receive by registering your residential, wireless, fax or VoIP telephone number on the National DNCL. You can also check your registration, find out how to remove your number from the National DNCL, and file a complaint about telemarketing calls. Please consult our frequently asked questions section to find out more about the National DNCL.

The National Do Not Call List (DNCL) introduces new responsibilities for Canada's telemarketers. If you are a telemarketer you can use this Web site to register your business information, obtain and buy a subscription to the National DNCL, and download or query the National DNCL. You can also find out about subscription rates, file formats and other information in the Telemarketer section of this Web site.

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Mystro - 5 May 2007 8:03 PM
This phone number is from Scotia Bank Credit Card.
mike - 4 May 2007 9:41 PM
Seems to be from Scotiabank credit card sales.

604-853-3252
Bank Of Nova Scotia Box 2151 , Clearbrook, BC

You can try calling them on a landline (no airtime charges) and see what's up, or if it gets to be too much, see if Customer Service can give you a new number.

Under Menu, Call log, Call timers, Duration of all calls, does the number look normal, or is there a lot of time that you can't account for (pre-used phone)?

Not all call centers go by what's in the phone book. They'll have sequential lists to make sure they cover every number.

604-520-4253 is listed as RCH's Main Switchboard, so it could have been just a mis-dialed number by a worker or patient/relative. It does happen, even on land-lines!

You could fill up your phone memory with "screened" numbers and still get random calls. Just like my home phone, I ignore them if they're not from a number I recognise. If they leave a voicemail (telemarketers usually don't, family will), the phone will tell me and I can check it later.

You think a couple of random calls is bad? When I moved into my current place in Aug/02, I got a new land-line number. By June/03 I had received 271 calls from assorted fax machines and other sources, at all hours of the day & night. It took a bit of online searching to find my "new" number was an old fax number from an industrial manufacturer that had been out of business for 3 years.