Okay, here's what you do.
Step 1. Go register with the 'Do Not Call' list the gov has.
https://www.donotcall.gov/
Step 2. Go opt out of pre-screened credit & insurance offers.
https://www.optoutprescreen.com
Step 3. Send a letter to all 3 credit reporting bureaus with their fees, and have them freeze your credit reports. This has the effect of locking down your reports, but good. No one can run credit on you without your "unfreezing" it, with the exception of current creditors. This also prevents anyone from stealing your identity and setting up new lines of credit in your name.
Step 4. Any snail mail you get that you don't want, shove it all into the pre-paid return envelope along with anything else you can fit in there, like lead weights or rocks, tape it shut and mail it back to them.
Step 5. Change your phone number and make sure it's unlisted.
Step 6. Move to another state. Leave no forwarding address.
Step 7. Do not get drunk and post your new phone number on Facebook or some shit.
Step 8. Any calls that make it this far should be promptly answered each and every time with, "There is no one here by that name, take me off your list." If you never acknowledge it's you, they can't prove it. If it's some anonymous telemarketer looking for anyone that will answer the phone, don't be the guy that answers it. If you do, hang up as soon as you know it's a telemarketer.
This worked for me.
