An angry, somewhat abusive man with a strong Asian accent called my cell phone asking to speak with Tonya. I informed him that there is no Tonya at this phone number and that he had the wrong number. He said no, I don't have the wrong number and to listen to him as he is with Universal Lending. I told him no thank you and that I'm not interested and I'm not Tonya, then he asked me well who are you? I informed him that I wasn't going to tell him and had received these calls before, he said he never called before. I informed him that I didn't care and appreciate him to not call me again. He then began to bligerntly berate me on the phone telling me he was with Universal Lending and it was important. I said once again, no thank you and hung up.
Just received a call today, from an man w/ an indian or asian accent wanting to tell me about a lending promotion. He said he was from Universal Lending. I asked him to take me off of his list, and that he was illegally calling a cell phone.
By the look of the dates from some of the previous reports here and on other "who's calling me sites" it looks like they're calling out to a lot of people. I answered and found the guy's asian accent so thick I couldn't understand much besides "congratulations, my phone number, and $1300." I was going to just hang up but I tried telling him twice that I couldn't understand him. He actually hung up on me. That may be the first time a telemarketer hung up on me. According to the posts above it sounds like this is some kind of bogus loan company. The ironic thing is that I generally don't answer if I don't recognize the number (they'll leave a message if its that important) and the only reason I answered is because I'm waiting to hear back from my real bank about a real loan. You'd think if you were going to try to scam someone you'd at least be able to communicate with them.
Scammers. They spoof numbers and then do mass calling. They want your credit card information. [***] - it's no longer fun to have either an e-mail address or phone.