Level 3 Communications has service responsibility for this number as of 9/15/2014. Call 1-800-348-5457 and file a complaint if you get a call from this number. Not sure if these calls are being spoofed, but if enough people call about the number Level 3's fraud department they will monitor the number's activity.
I missed a call from this number, no voice mail and when I called the number back it just hangs up. I suspect this line is an "outbound line only telemarketing number", but Level 3 Communications will not tell you or I anything more about the line or who owns the line (privacy?).
If this is a telemarketer, how do you get off their call list? I though I had a right to privacy too, no calls... if I'm on the Do Not Call List...GUESS NOT!
Maybe these type of calls would stop if our government mandated and maintained a real-time public phone listing of both inbound and outbound telemarketing numbers. A good telemarketer phone list database! The Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) is a great tool to figure out who the current service provider is for a number, but today's privacy laws prevent the service providers from releasing the owners name and address.
Called to my cell phone - automated message system for legal services. Always illegal to call cell phones with automated equipment like this and recently illegal to do it with non-cell numbers - regardless of your business relationship. I pressed 1 to speak to a representative. Rep said that I was called because I opted in - that's a lie - I never opted in to receive calls and have no dealings with any legal service firms. Second she said she wanted to confirm that I voluntarily called her firm for the purpose of legal services and before allowing me any chance to answer, she started in on a script about legal services I might be interested in. When she paused for an answer on that topic, I told her that her first question was for me to confirm that I was voluntarily contacting them in the first place and I told her that I wasn't and she said goodbye and hung up.
I reported on Federal Do Not Call List web site. Shady firm doing business illegally and getting clients to agree to their outbound lead generation services probably under false pretenses. This firm should be shut down and the owner fined severely. Jerks operating firms like this have created untolled frustration for people and continue to do it regardless.
Thank you! Gabby Jim, if what you are saying is true, you have saved me the headache that comes from dealing with scammers. I will continue to ignore these calls.
Note: I have set my phone to beep once if someone who is NOT on my contact list calls me. That way I don't have to fumble with my phone when these people call me at the most undesirable times. This is what I have chose to do. However, it may not be an option if you get calls you don't want to miss from people who are not on your contact list.
Scuba Guy (and anyone else receiving unwanted calls from telemarketers) - please see my help page at
http://www.gabbyjim.com/Do-Not-Call-Farce.htm. (Case Sensitive, trust me!) No worries, nothing harmful there - I don't even count visits. I worte the page myself just because I was ticked at all the folks out there breaking the law and scaming the system. Here's a way to make them go away. At least for a little while. I don't even have any affilliate marketing there - yet (10/1/2012) - although I may, in the future, put a few ads there to try to pay for the hosting.