DELIVERING A MEDIC ALERT DEVICE. THEY GOT MY NAME ADDRESS AND BIRTHDAY. SO THEY KNOW I"M ON MEDICARE. WE WILL CALL YOU BACK IN 10 MINUTES TO GIVE YOU A DELIVERY TIME FOR TOMORROW. NEVER CALLED BACK.
jus called its 600 am... i too am FILING a complaint to the attorney general,,, lots of calls coming from the state of washington....all we can do is keep reporting them in hopes of an investigation... DO NOT ANSWER YOUR PHONES OR GIVE THEM ANY INFO WHAYSOEVER! DO NOT PRESS STAR OR POUND OR 1 OR TWO OR ANY BUTTON AT ALL...THEY R MOST LIKELY ALSO READING THESE NOTES,,,,THEY R SICK FREE LOADERS TRYING TO PREY ON GOOD HONEST PEOPLE THEY USE INFO LIKE A NAME U ENTERED INTO YOUR COMPUTER AT ONE TIME AND THE MORE WE EDUCATE ONE ANOTHER THE SOONER THEY WILL GET STOPPED! CALLS STEM FROM 800 OR 888 OR ANY OTHER AREA CODE THEY CAN FIND. THIS IS THEIR JOB AND THEY R GOOD AT IT. HOWEVER MORE N MORE PPL R REPORTING THEM AND IT WILL STOP... THEIR NAME AND NUMBER MEAN NOTHING THEIR IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LEGIT ABOUT THEM! THEY R NOT CALLING FROM WHERE YOUR CALLER ID IS IDENTIFING THEM FROM AND IT IS DEFINATELY NOT THE NUMBER IT SAYS IT IS... THEY USE NUMBERS THAT CORRESPOND W LEGIT BUSINESS NAMES IN HOPES OF GAINING YOUR TRUST TO RETRIEVE YOUR PERSONAL INFO. DO NOT ANSWER YOUR PHONE N KEEP REPORTING THEIR NUMBERS TILL THEY GET NARROWED DOWN AND CAUGHT...AND PASS THIS INFO ONTO EVERYONE YOU KNOW... DO NOT RELEASE YOUR NAME DO NOT CALL BACK....DO NOT ANSWER THESE PHYSCOTIC SICK FUKS REPORT THEM TO THE FCC...OR ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE IN WA DC.
SAME THING HERE! SEND COMPLAINT TO AG OFFICE AS WELL... KEEP POSTING ANY NUMBER THAT DOES THIS TO YOU.... IT HAPPENS TO ME AT LEAST 10 TIMES A DAY,,, FROM ALL DIFFERENT NUMBERS AND AREA CODES,,, I KEEP MY PHONE OFF...N HAVE STARTED REPORTING THEM TO THE FCC AND ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE
I am trying to organize a way to stop these unscrupulous people from calling our "do not call" registered
phones day and night. It costs us money, time, and energy at a time that we as a nation have little or none
of to spare. We have to raise awareness of what's going on and stop them.
1) The reason that these people can call you while you're on the DO NOT CALL registry is straight forward.
These people harassing you aren't in America and aren't subject to any do not call regulations! Well if
they aren't in America, how are they calling with domestic phone numbers you ask? Major USA telecom
companies have reseller businesses where they resell VoiP phone services to consumers all over the world
and they use virtual phone numbers that have American phone number exchanges. Why then are these American
Telecom companies providing these foreign people with phone services to harass American consumers and use the services for illicit activities? The truth is they're not, in fact most of the major American Telecom
companies aren't even aware of who is using the services and what they're being used for as they're
reselling them to different foreign vendors who then sell the service to foreign consumers. Tom Friedman
was right, the world is getting flatter.
So the question then becomes, what are my options and what can I do to prevent this? The best thing to do
is to use method #1 (below) and re-record your voice mail with the VC_SIT tone to fool the autodialer.
2) Answering the phone, calling them back and pressing "1" to be removed only confirms that they have a
real person on the phone. I believe they have "war dialed" to find your number and if you've answered or
called back, they now know they have a real phone number and it only makes you get targeted for more calls,
I've managed to get a second phone on their list via calling back from another line.
3) I found this http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com/ link which has an interesting discussion on the topic of these scam calls. While it is specific for the Pacific northwest, it does shed a light on a murky topic.
4) Here is a growing list of the numbers they have used (spoofed). When I get another call from an
unfamiliar number, I immediately google that number and usually it is here on this web site. I then know
that I got called by another scam/telemarketer scum bag.
1) There is a simple way to stop any automatic predictive dialer from any calling phone line.
Get a telephone answering machine:
Wal-Mart, AT&T 1739 Adjunct Answering Machine System $16.46
Target, AT&T DECT 6.0 Cordless Answering System (EL52100) $29.99
Radio Shack AT&T Corded Digital Answering Machine $19.99
etc...
or re-record your outbound message (play it from your computer's speakers)
then go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VC_SIT.ogg to hear the 3 tones played twice.
Press RECORD and play the tones from your computer speaker into your microphone on the answering machine, or your cell phone when you re-record your voice mail message. After the 3 tones are played twice, begin
your personal voice recording:
BOOP, BOO, BEEP pause, you have reached (your phone number) we are not available to take your call at this time. Please leave your name and phone number and we will call you back as soon as possible.
If you are home, when you hear the name and phone number, you can pick up the phone if you wish to talk to the caller. Otherwise the telemarketer dialer will automatically remove your number from their fish list.
This also works for cell phone voice mail.
General Info: SIT Tones
There are eight Special Information Tones or SITs played before telephone company recorded announcements.
They are used to tell automated dialing equipment the call did not complete.
The VC_SIT tone indicates: Vacant Code; this number is not in service, so remove this number from your
calling list, (however your number really is in service, you simply fooled the auto dialer into not calling
again). I can tell you that since I have done this on my phone, the volume of calls has dropped
drastically. I just got my first call in a month, and in the prior month I only had one call then too. THIS
SEEMS TO WORK! Update, I am suddenly on their list again after months of being off, I have been called
three times this week and once last week.
2) To help on my phone, I've created a trash contact which has a silent ring tone and each time they change their spoofed number to a new one, I add them to this contact so at least I can continue my meetings and meals without interruption once I have their new spoofed Caller ID number. It helps, a little. If I do not recognize the called, or it is private, or no number, or even a wild number, (I've also been called by
number 69, and 488, and a few other incomplete numbers), I don't even answer. I pull a browser, check
google against that number, if it turns up here, I add their number to my trash contact list, enter a do
not call complaint, ( https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx?panel=2 ), and update
my phone list here to help to get the word out on this number. Register your phone at donotcall.gov.
3) There is no one here that can stop the calls, you have to take action yourself. Forget Do-Not_Call or
FCC or BBB or Attorneys General, use the VC_SIT code to start your voice mail message, let your contacts know to expect that tone at that start of your voice mail, and then give it some time to get the autodialers to mark your number as vacant.