Live Caller from (347) 348-0611 on 3 January 2014 at 12:27 EST
Caller ID: New York NY
also called from: 732 305-8349 | 305 222-7101
A man with a thick India accent mumbled something and asked for "William". The phone connection had echo and sounds like a cheap VoIP International call.
I asked "Who?" and still couldn't understand what he was saying. Kept asking me to wait and finally put a woman on who had a more understandable accent. She again asked for "William". I asked for the last name. She spelled letter by letter several times before I finally understood L E A H Y. She seemed satisfied when I told her that nobody by that name ever had this phone number in the past 35 years we've had this number.
Sounds like they're fishing as they always ask for William or Mindy Leahy. I guess each time this old debt gets sold to a new collector they don't hesitate to call all old phone numbers associated with the people.
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I try to record calls such as these using Google Voice ( www.google.com/voice ) but this call didn't come to my Google phone number. You can hear other spam phone call recordings I've made on my Spam Calls web page:
Well, they've switched tactics. They are now texting virus filled links to smart phones. The one I got today started out with "Sarah told me to send this 2 u." OK, great. I don't know any Sarahs, so that was my first big warning. My second was the URL itself. www dot j dot mp slash 1aEXMiq. Not even url shorteners create web addresses that look like that. So, whether it's a phone call or a text message, this phone number is bad news.
Has called numerous times looking for my father. Finally, I answered and was fed up with their harassing calls. Asked who it was and he told me his name was Ramen (like the noodles) and that he was calling from 1st Credit Services and wanted to know when he could call back to reach my dad. That's when I politely told him that I was an attorney (which I am), my phone number was my registered number (which it is), and that I was going to report him to the appropriate authorities for harassment and the scam. His voice tone changed and told me that he would remove my number- we shall see.