Same here..an office I work with was contacted about 29 times on Saturday alone from the numbers below:
3104211092 for bobby
8644745123 for jonathan
9498615941 for nam
8582405114 for bobby
7733721097 for bobby
3303069599
9498615941
3166656796 for bobby
7739226239 for jennifer
I contacted my phone company provider (I'm in CT) and was told that this was a scam. These people are spoofing numbers and are likely to be off-shore somewhere, possibly Nigera. They will keep calling phone numbers until they reach someone with a common name and ask them for $. I called all these numbers back and got the same person over and over again who didn't speak any English. My phone carrier provider suggest that I contact my local police department but other than that, there isn't anything they can do because they "spoof" so many numbers, it's impossible to block them all.
I think I have a very new and unique scam happening. It comes from a different number each time (and, thus, becomes impossible to block). How that is done is amazing. The message is the same each time with a voice asking for some first name (also varies) which is never mine or anyone we know. It asks for a response by pressing 1 or 2 on the phone.
I have never responded and do not know what would happen, but my guess is that I would be charged a large sum money per second.
If anyone can come up with a way to stop it other than changing my number, please let me know.
In addition to the number related to this report, here are the other numbers that have called giving the same message:
This is not a full list and can only be a basis for looking up if these are real people getting their numbers used for scamming. If you know how to do this, please let me know the results. Thank you.
Same here..an office I work with was contacted about 29 times on Saturday alone from the numbers below:
3104211092 for bobby
8644745123 for jonathan
9498615941 for nam
8582405114 for bobby
7733721097 for bobby
3303069599
9498615941
3166656796 for bobby
7739226239 for jennifer
I contacted my phone company provider (I'm in CT) and was told that this was a scam. These people are spoofing numbers and are likely to be off-shore somewhere, possibly Nigera. They will keep calling phone numbers until they reach someone with a common name and ask them for $. I called all these numbers back and got the same person over and over again who didn't speak any English. My phone carrier provider suggest that I contact my local police department but other than that, there isn't anything they can do because they "spoof" so many numbers, it's impossible to block them all.