called us at 8:45 this morning. Saturday morning. I was asleep. This jerk asked to call for "the lady of the house", said he was with the police, said, "don't worry, you're not in trouble, blah blah."
Same as other posts; rings 2-3 times and stops. It's from one of those police "charity" scams where 95-97% of contributions go to the solicitation firm and the small remainder actually goes to any law enforcement organization. It's legal unfortunately.
I've been receiving calls from this number for a couple of weeks. In spite of demands to cease and desist, the calls keep coming.
I contacted the Washington State Attorney General's Office. They are aware of the number and have investigated. As it is a "registered charity," their hands are tied.
The Attorney General's office gave me the web site of the Washinton State Fraternal Order of Police. I emailed each listed officer. Within an hour, I received an email from them indicating that they would remove my phone numbers from their call list.
They are calling about a, "memorial fund." I find this telephone harrassment a bizarre way to honor fallen heroes.
We have been getting calls from this number for at least three weeks and up to 8 times a day everyday all hours! On our caller ID, it came up caller unknown, but once today, they screwed up and didn't block their number from us and the number 1-360-547-1900 and the name Police Memorial Fund showed up. I was so happy to finally have at least a number to look online and see if anyone else had the same problem. We have had five other calls today so far, but the ID is showing caller unknown as usual. They usually call and let it ring a few times and other times, they ring till the answering machine picks up and they don't leave a message. I feel harassed and it is getting really old! I can't believe that it can be legal to harass you like that just because it is a registered charity. I like what Captain Negative's answer was and I might try the same thing.
Started getting this call on my home phone. Caller ID says "Police Mem Fund" and the area code (360) I think is in Spokane WA. Spokane was recently mentioned in the national news as being the number 1 city in the US last year for mail and phone fraud/scams. Then the local WA news had a story about some of these law enforcement/firefighter funds as questionable because very little of the money actually goes to them and the bulk of what is raised stays with the for-profit professional fundraising company. Beware anytime people call for a "charity" asking for money.