Received a call from this number at 6:14 PM today. No message was left and I didn't answer it. I have no idea why an unlisted person and phone number is being called to begin with. How do they have business with a person they don't know? So I suspect it is a blind-calling telemarketer or another such lowly slime.
I've seen reports that it is Ameristar Financial, a gambling company named Youwager.com, Level 3 Comms, The Nielson Ratings Service and probably some others I missed.
It seems likely it is used by a myriad of people or organizations to hid their true telephone number from people wo would call them back mad as H*ll or to hide the organization from the U.S. FTC and fines from donotcall.gov.
Whoever it is, I have a box that will reject that number from now forward. I'll be placing that number in the box before bed time tonight!
***Update** - I can't believe this. As I was typing the above, the telephone in my office rang again. Same number again, exactly 2 hours apart - second call at 8:14 PM, CST. I grabbed the line fast. It was a lady claiming to be calling from IPSOS - a Market Research Company. The CEO of IPSOS North America has the following email address:
[email protected] . There is another set of contacts: Contact Ipsos at 1.888.210.7425 or email:
[email protected] . The first thing she said was "I not try to sell you anythings.(She had broken Mexican accent) Are you Hispanic?" At that point, I went OFF on the lady. After what I told her, I don't think she will call back here. She picked the wrong group of questions to ask me.