This number called our business today at 14429 hours. Caller ID said "Von Suckow Trad" I think the emphasis is on the "suck" part. Stupid, illegal idiot-message didn't even wait for me to speak before starting the usual nonsense spiel, "Our records show you have not..." The usual Google-based scam. Apparently, they use a couple of different scams for this number.
They called from Florida, did not leave a message. When I immediately called back, there was a recording stating that the number I dialed is not a working #.. if not, then, how are they calling me? I get calls like this all of the time, when you call them right back, it says it is not a working number. This is an immediate red flag that this is a scammer and fraudulent, because, they are using an app that allows them to call from a different number every time, from anywhere in the states/world. I received 12 + calls from a guy in one week, stating he was asking for donations for policemans ball.. I talked to the guy on the first call to see if he seemed legit, yet told him I support locally. Thus, I knew his voice and his sales pitch by the end of the call. The rest of the week, this very same guy had called a dozen or more times, however, he called from a different state and phone number every single time. Normally, government organizations will show tge name of the organization along with the phone number. Yet, these were simply phone numbers and names of the states. The final call from him, that stopped him from calling, was, my making him aware of these facts, that "I" was aware, and that there is no name of the organization on my caller ID, and, that I am aware that he is the same guy that called me from 4 states in a day and a half, and I told him that there is no way he called from Arkansas at 2:30 and then called me back at 3:45 from New York, that he couldnt have gotten that far in an hour and fifteen minutes. Then, I laughed and hung up.. He hasn't called me back since then. ^_~.