Just got my first call from them today. I did not answer as I don't answer numbers I do not know. Seems that I'm starting to get calls from numbers like these now for some reason. Will they ever get a life?
COLLECTION AGENTS! Women & men have called from this number, asking for someone while pretending to be a friend of the person they asked for. They've never left a message and always say they will just call back if we had no other number for them to call and could not tell them when the person would be available at our number, etc.
I have called the phone company about this before there is nothing they can do. There is such a huge network with so many different masks out there. I get the calls on my house phone. This is a huge scam and the phone calls are simular in that they want to ask you for private info tell you they are collecting or protecting credit cards, and to verify yourself and in return they opt out of giving you their information. I never talk to anyone I do not know and surely never tell people anything personal about myself. When you get a strange call just hang up! I ask sometimes who they are but never tell them who I am. They have peoples names most of the time and that is scary. I never sign up for any prizes or put my info out on the net for example those advertisments that say you will get a prize if you fill out the terms of several offers Silver gold platinum offers for credit cards ETC.. all the while you are surfing window to window of questions that you put a check mark next to intrests. each time you click you keep giving info and the pages go forever you are sining up to random places the longer you click on pages and each has a huge list they sell and so on.. that could be how some get your info. just be carefull it is a huge problem for people all across the USA. Changing your phone number does not help since they seem to have them all and will call you still. someone inside the phone company must have sold a list because most people say the callers know their name. I am unlisted and have been for a very long time yet they have my name? I do get legetimate reminder calls from billers but that is life. I own no credit cards so I am not sure why they bother me. be careful and hang up! make sure they are totaly off the line before making a call as they hang out on lines hoping to have 3 way calling ease dropping.
Guy called my cellphone and acted like he had the wrong number. After reading all this, he obviously was confirming something from a collection agency.