They are some sort of hardship consumer program offering some [removed:lang] "no obligation" [removed:lang] and offers to remove your number by pressing "1" and then typing in your number on the keypad. I didnt type in my number due to other scams they run and thats one way they get u caught up in [removed:lang] is by having YOU type in your number to be "removed" from their data base. I didnt wanna risk it so I chose not to and rather call blocked them instead.
They do a good job of switching their plan of attack. Just got a message stating I could lower my student interest. Same old press 9 to be removed scam.
They're getting more clever. Used a male voice that threw in some "um"s and "uh"s this time to make it seem like less of a robot.
I answered, and it was a recorded woman's voice that said, "Do you know someone with a drug addiction" and blah blah. Press 1 to speak to a representative or 2 to be removed from our list. That's always a scam to actually confirm a number as being legitimate, so I hung up.
They called my office at work. I informed them that they were probably committing fraud. They hung up. I then alerted my workplace's telecomm department (we're that big--AND we're a state agency in the same state as the phone number in question) and gave them all the details. The telecomm office is going to handle it. I hope that, at the very least, someone ends up getting a letter from a prosecutor that produces a brown trouser effect.