The callers are the drug-addicted "card services" scammers, who call us, pretending to be associated with our credit card companies, in an attempt to fool us into giving them our credit card numbers, so they can rip us off. People that have given their card number to these junkies have suffered severe financial losses. Beware of these lowlifes, and warn others, before they are cheated!
ALL of the days are bad for the druggie "card services" scammers, that's why you were greeted with obscene comments.Their drug-addled brains have diminished their vocabularies to 4 letter words!
Got a call from this number (which Spokeo associates with Boca Raton, one of the U.S. fraud capitals) for the first time on my backup cellphone, a number I only give out to family members, but who knows how the scammers got it. Of course the robocall was illegal, both because of the cellphone connection and do not call listing, but why expect fraudsters to follow laws? Perhaps I received it today because of my postings yesterday about a seeming lull in robocall fraudster activity to my regular cell, or by my posting as w about 212-660-5351, which mentioned the January 13 joint FTC/Florida Attorney General takedown of some medical alert robocall scammers, which continue to leave messages on my elderly dad's line in the Chicago area.
I sure hope that my dad's Danish emigre neighbor who winters in Boca isn't responsible, though he never would tell me what business he is in, only cussed me out midsummer for daring to ask for demolition of that 9 year-old never-occupied monstrosity with cracks all around the basement which caused flooding in my dad's basement as well as environmental degradation in the nearby park/historic site. FYI, the straw buyer house finally demolished in late October has hospital links in Evanston, Illinois and threatened my dad's life last January. A Chicago and Sarasota-area fraudster nicknamed Jim Crain (probably his principal and who may also sell insurance in Florida) did the same more obliquely last April. For what it's worth, earlier this month, I posted about calls from 305-368-8132, and back in October I mentioned the link between 847-592-8794 and 305-368-8882. Also, in September I posted about the link between 215-525-0071 and fraudulent calls including from 305-368-8847.
To answer your question as to how the "card services" scammers "got" your cellphone number---they didn't. The "card services" scammers, and many others, use a robodialer, which dials numbers in a sequential order, until someone answers and becomes their next potential victim. Coincidentally, I am familiar with the area you are speaking of, as I worked for many years at the IBT Central Office in Evanston, back in the 60's 70's and 80's. This particular group of "card services" scammers (there are many spin off groups) will be using 305-368 8158 as their spoofed, scamming number of choice tomorrow.