Received call showing New York 347-347-3470 answered a male voice talking to another rep being trained about accounts under $100,000 were a point under. Talking those kind of numbers is not your small time scammers! Sounded more like predators cold calling from your normal financial institutions under debt collection, skip tracing, reminder calls. How about Master Card, Wells Fargo, Ocwen Loan Serving, Nationstar loan servicing? A search "347-347 debt collection" brings up other numbers http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-347-347-1122/9
Called two related phone numbers (one landline, one cell) from different area codes within a minute of each other. When landline was answered... dial tone, then they called the cell phone and after about two "rings", it was answered, but again... dead.
Called it back and the message says the number's not in service.
Coming out of NY, it's probably a stock broker with a phone list.
This number called the office this morning. Both the number and the caller ID looked suspect, if not obviously bogus.
Because we have clients in New York, I took the call. I could hear boiler room noise, so I answered with a simple, "Hello?" The caller began to ask for the boss by name, but the call suddenly disconnected before he could even finish saying the boss' first name.
As for the name appearing on caller ID, I suspect posting it as it appeared may trigger a word filter. I'll describe it instead: The letter X ten times in a row followed by NY, presumably because 347 is supposed to be a New York area code.