call at 838PM. i let the machine pick up. caller said, "hi this is Bruce Sheppard here with NPS, calling about the $25,000 giveaway that was being sponsored within the last 18 months; we are looking at your name and number here and we have very good news for you, so congratulations!" he asks for me to call 1-866-933-6017 and repeated some congratulatory sentiment intimating i was the winner of something.
sounded like a pre-recorded message though, so i can't attest to anyone hanging up on me.
pretty sure it's a ruse to get you to call a debt collector; i only say that because somehow a fraudulent debt has come into my life recently and worms are coming through the phone lines to try to scare me into paying something i don't owe. looks like the older posts on here from a couple years back may have been a different wave of the same type of thing.
National Do Not Call list is not working for us. Too many loopholes and they have no teeth to phone trace and track down the scammers who are trying to cheat us.
File ALL your camplaints with your congressmen , UNTIL , they get fed up with dealing with it and put some real teeth into a 'Do Not Call 'law . with NO exceptions.312-327-0508
Got the same $25,000 message as creekerjess, but the callback number was 1-855-545-7293 and the caller's name was Todd. Got a similar call last month with a female on the other end. This is definitely some type of scam or a ruse to get you to call back.