first time being called from this number. Looked like a weird # on caller ID so I just picked up receiver and immediately hung up. Will block call if it continues.
I answered the phone and there was a foreigner with a heavy accent similar to the Asian Indians. Through the delayed echo on the phone he commences to tell me that my husband had won $2,000.00 form the U. S. Tax Department and that he needed to verify information on my husband. I became angry, letting him know that I already knew about this scam and to not call me anymore. He continued to try to explain to me that my husband had actually won $2,000.00 from the government and that he only needed to verify his information. I told me to not ever call again and hung up.
I get the same guy. He speaks with a very heavy Indian accent and tries to convince me he is with the US Tax Department and that since I've been a very good taxpayer (hahaha... my first clue it's a scam) that I've won $2,000.00. I said "Great, send me my check" he says he cannot send it through us mail that I need to give him my bank information. Yeah right fella.. I'm that stupid. I've hung up on him several times. Told him to screw off several times. He still calls back.. two or three times a day.
Yeah, I started getting calls from this number and others doing and saying all this. I found the best thing to do is to get call rejection and have all unknown numbers blocked and to also put these numbers in after the first call. So that pretty much takes care of it, not totally because they can get a new number.. but it takes care of that number.
The first time they called me, two months ago, I listened to the entire spiel and took down notes, then called the bank that issued my Visa to report them (little good that did). I asked that first caller for a phone number to call them back to verify their offer, and here’s the number he gave me — 888-425-5874. Nothing for a couple weeks, then they started again. After many more calls (up to 6 a day!) I finally went hunting for my notes and called that number. The line is answered “At Home Rewards” it’s a company called Galleria (address: 9500 West Dodge Rd., Omaha NE 68114).
This is one of those companies that offers gift cards for other companies “at a discount” for a membership fee. Total rip-off. I had an acccount with them briefly a couple years ago, and thats why their representative on the phone told me that they could still call me and sell my number despite my national do-not-call listing — it’s what they call a “prior relationship.” I demanded that they immediately remove my name and number from their lists and was told it would take an outrageous time (can’t remember if it was 30 or 60 days, I was so mad at them).
So, now that we all know who it is, and have their name, address and phone number, what are we going to do? I searched on their most recent number hoping to find others with the same problem (they’re still calling me almost daily). I tried telling them to take me off their list, but they hang up and the calls kept coming. Then I tried asking them very nicely to talk to their supervisor, and they just hang up.