Called at 8:00 am on the dot, recorded woman's voice, no discernible accent, said there's a home break in every 15 minutes or maybe she said seconds, and wanted to put a sign on my property and install a security system at no cost to me. I'm on Vancouver Island.
Well the scam has advanced to the point where there is no caller ID displayed, this is the first I have come across this scenario with my Panasonic phone that automatically blocks calls with no number, blocked and/or anonymous calls. This call messed with my landline and handset-made it beep and skip over the call which I picked up because it was not blocked, yet did not display on my phone. Recorded message, something about the FBI and breakins, upon which I hung up and then checked my Call ID on the handset and nothing was there oddly and no record of any incoming call #, I also have talking caller ID and nothing displayed, except 'incoming call'. I could not use my landline base set after the call, it kept saying busy-I had to unplug it. Discovered the number by using my Telus TV remote to display caller ID and there was the number 1-360-910-5749. The number comes up as being from Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. The only reputable number look up site on the web is searchbug.com which gave the owner name as "Mark" , yup, I was there "Mark" for sure. Searchbg gave two different locations (Ridgefield and La Centre, WA) but gave the same carrier T-Mobile, USA. Called T-Mobile and the rep stated that this is NOT a T-Mobile phone number. When searching the number on google-many Chinese sites come up. Had one other call a ways back that was similar here in Kamloops, BC stating they were calling to fix my computer and wanted my IP address, as if I'm going to give that out-sheesh-could hear many people speaking Mandarin in the background-hung up on them too and they called me back whereupon I started speaking some not nice things to him in French and hung up for a second time, and blocked the number. Complain to your phone provider.