Lately I've been getting calls from Florida number (386) 736-7962 that I don't recognize. That number comes from Deland, Florida and It's some sort of boiler room scam. They never leave a message, they always wait for someone to pick-up. Don't pick-up.
They called me tonight as well. I pressed the number one on the phone and when I said no and to stop calling, he hung up on me. Did some research on the computer tonight. Went to IAF.net and did a reverse look up on the number. It gives you a name, address with this number 1-386-736-7962. When you try to call its disconnected. I don't even own a credit card, I just want them to stop. Plus, my number is unlisted.
I got a call from this number today. Uknown Name, 386-736-7962. I just didn't answer it, and came to PC to google. Have been getting a lot of these for some time from this number, and some calls that just say Unknown Name, Unknown Number, there was another one that had a Houston Texas area code....We'd answer these and no one would say anything. We have turned off answering machine so we don't have to listen to any of their messages and just return calls to people we know that have caller IDs.
Got one yesterday from an Unknown Name Unknown Number, a woman who said she was calling to make arrangements to receive payment for a very recent and small hospital bill. Asked me if I had credit cards. I told her I mailed in a payment that very morning (true) and the rest would be forth coming (we have several medical bills at this time, unfortunately, and are trying to pay everyone something until they are all paid off. Anyway, then she said that the hospital could offer %15 off of the total balance, but since I had sent in a partial payment already, now they couldn't. She was very aggressive and kept trying to get me to agree to paying more than I could at this time. We finally came to an agreement and she said I would be receiving mailings to send the payments in with. But now I have become suspicious. My home was broken in to last month, and I am concerned this could be a scam. Our bills, and other personal information was out for them to see, and how do I know she is really from the hospital. My husband called the hospital and spoke to another person who said they do not operate this way. Well, have decided to go directly to the hospital to make the payments rather than mail them, just to make sure it gets to them and not some scammer giving me their own address. Because of the break in, we had to change our bank account number, put fraud alerts on all three credit bureaus of our information, get new checks with new bank info which took forever, in attempt to make sure our identities don't get stolen. Now I see a flip side as to how our information could possibly be used. My husband also tried to call the unknown number ID back, and it did not connect anywhere or to voice mail.
I too would like to know why we should put up with this crap!The phone company wants to charge us money per mo.to block them.I say how bout we cut our phone payment to you till you stop them!!!