they called here, I got the same message the others got, I pushed 1 to get an agent and told them I wanted on their do not call list, the lady hung up on me.. second time I called them back and told them again, they hung up on me, third time I told her I was recording the conversation, that I was documenting this for my attorney, that I did not want them to call back and was contacting the attorney general. She said something about my number being in their service or something, then hung up.
Scammer... something about debt relief. I hope whoever is doing these junk calls get scammed themselves for all they're worth and it ruins them and anyone close to them. I hope they lose everything. Miserable low-life scum.
This number is involved in criminal violation of the national do-not-call law, and has committed criminal fraud by impersonating a Florida credit company.
I get this recorded call consistently. I finally *69'd them and investigated.
It was a phone room, not a cell phone, as far as I could tell because I got a different operator each time.
They're trained in conducting fraudulent phone scams. Of five voices that answered the phone, each spoke with a thick immigrant accent. They always lead with "Would you like to reduce your debt?" or "Would you like to speak to an agent?" The wrong answer consistently resulted in them hanging up on me. ("i.e. no, I would like to be removed from your list == hangup")
After a few probes to learn their system, from a calling card that masked by caller ID, I got information from one of the "agents." I did this by playing along -- answering yes when they said "would you like to reduce your debt." If this report results in them further training their agents to withold information they are legally required to disclose (their corporate identity) future investigations will need to play along just a little further. Act perfectly willing to comply, but by the way, ask for their company name before disclosing information. If you record the call, you will have in your had digital library evidence of criminal fraud when they use the wrong company name.
If you then take your recording to the FTC and they don't act to enforce, or take it to Florida officials (where the company being victimized by corporate identity theft and criminal trademark violations is located) and either fails to investigate, take it to the media.
One more detail -- this badly made recording of a male with a U.S. Anglo dialect who says "uh" 50 times in one sentence won't release my phone line when I hang up. Whatever this scam is, it could be a violation of FCC rules for interference, tampering or jamming telephone lines. Beware -- once you try unsuccessfully to hang up on these calls, you could have a live phone line listening in on conversations where you answered the call.