Ugh!! Count me in on getting this annoying #...the problem is when I see the # and don't answer it...the person on the other end stays on long enough making noise and then it appears that I have a voice mail...later I will check voice mail and no one is there! Total JERKS!! I am afraid we are gonna start getting a lot of these people! I have an idea...start talking in some crazy made up foreign language...that is what my brother does every time and they hang up! It might not solve the problem...but it could be fun REVENGE! Ha ha!!
I received 2 calls from this number from the Seattle, WA. area. Both times it was a man with a thick accent (Asian or Middle Eastern) who asked for someone else. I told them I have had this number since 1999. The man proceded to tell me that there was some money waiting for me, so I told him I would report them to the authorities and hung up.
its probably an advance fee loan scam - or a payday loan scam
MANY STATES HAVE BANNED PAYDAY LOANS! Check your Attorney General Websites.
Here is some information on advance fee loan scams. This is where they tell you can get a loan - but demand several months payment upfront as a deposit- they take your money and disappear and you never get the loan they promised.
Advance-Fee Loan Scams: ‘Easy’ Cash Offers Teach Hard Lessons
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/telemarketing/tel16.shtm
Just When You Thought It Was Safe...Advance-Fee Loan "Sharks"
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt028.shtm
Here is the link where you can report fraud phone calls to cell phones:
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
I just made my report RE: this number. Also, if you call the number back, an automated menu allows to to (supposedly) take my cell phone # off their list. We'll see if that works!
The good news is that I think people are a lot more informed about scams and frauds than they were years ago. The bad news is that in the past year I heard on the Clark Howard financial radio show that the number one thing that thugs in Jamaica have turf wars over is e-mail lists of gullible people in the U.S.! I am fairly confident that no one who reported this annoying/fraudulant number here is on those lists...