Most of the illegal, harassing telemarketer calls such as from Rachel at “Cardholder Services”, Tom with “Home Security” are are being paid for my the consumers themselves even if they don't but the service. Your phone company is charging you a fee for caller ID. Your phone company pays the scammer for sending their caller ID information. They make their money, not from the obvious credit card or security scam, but from the small fee paid by your phone company for the caller id number. Outlawing these charges would halt many of these illegal spam phone calls.