This number is a fraud scheme do not give them any information. Go to www. IC3.gov and report this number immediately if you get a call from this number. This number will call from several different numbers and you can not call most of them back and do not if you can as they are out of the USA.
I keep getting scam calls from this number and other variations. Caller states he is with the national health dept and asking personal info. Have asked repeatedly to be removed from his list. Caller stated never going to happen I am going to call you more. I really wish someone would do something about these people. I just keep adding #s here and to my reject list, but since they never seem to run out of #s it does me no good.
This number is the latest in a string of calls that started about a week ago. A man with a heavy (Indian?) accent informs me either that I am due medical compensation or that he wants to talk to me about a grant. Nether of which applies to me. I have not answered these calls after the first few times, but I keep checking the numbers online and know that it is the same caller. He is rude and sexually harassing. I wish I could make the calls stop. I keep blocking the numbers but new ones appear all the time.
Oh, let me guess what's next. You're due a damage award from some medical lawsuit you've never heard of and cannot research, and mysteriously you never got a notice of class action from the lawyers. You simply have to trust the script-reading stranger on the phone as he next says that you have to pay a fee to process your claim. Of course, he's ready to change scripts to the equally mysterious "grant program" if you show resistance to the "medical" story. Once again, if you want your "grant", he'll be happy to collect a fee from you, preferably by wire transfer or prepaid swipe card so you can't be refunded when you finally realize who's been suckered.
Sadly, the South Asian accents likely mean that demand letters and lawsuits are not viable options. They know how popular blocking gadgets and software have become, and can spoof all the numbers they need if not buy them outright through a VOIP provider for a few dollars apiece.
Advance Fee Fraud
FROM Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
http://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection ... -fee-fraud.html
I spoke with an agent in Secret Service and he advised to report each number to IC3.gov as this will give them the best ability to compile a list of numbers.