408-264-XXXX Caller ID hijacked numbers. The following companies 1) to 7) are said to be associated and hired telemarketers with these scam calls. The telemarketers they hire not only hijacks private numbers but also violates several FTC laws.
[WHAT THEY DO?]
They have been calling on one of these numbers during weekdays and Sundays with average of 10 to 20 calls per day. They keep switching the last four digits repeating the same calls. The number uses the caller ID of innocent third person as a victim and pretend they are not scams. The same old method when you pick up there is no one there and hungs up. When you call back the number says it is of a terminated or disconnected line. National Do Not Call Registry means nothing to them.
[HIJACKED VICTIMS]
-|2442: Cleora Y Horton
-|2547: Scott M Bruck *408-299-0843
-(2636: Geraldine M Levy
-|2646: Jennifer L Beveridge / Mackenzie Beveridge / Drew D Beveridge
-(2672: Caitlin M Stottrup / Micall J Stottrup / Constance G Stottrup
-|2719: Shirley K Clyde
-|2757: Levio Traina
-|2763: Marissa J Rando / Diana R Rando-mccabe / Mark R McCabe
-(2832: Maxine Olson / Leonard M Olson
-|3036: Perry L Shenk / Martha A Shenk / Alyssa Shenk A / Justin A Shenk
-|3071: Mario J Perotti / Binh Q Hoang
-|3106: Emata L Schelley
-(3173: Brandon Farnia
-|3227: Miller Diane
-|3228: Zenaida Ridley
-|3328: Toby Kerber
-|3422: Jiansheng Mai / J Mai
[THE SUSPECTS]
1) A1 Solar Power, Inc. (Van Nuys, California) – www.a1solarpower.net/
(California) Contractors State License Board – Contractor’s License Details:
4) California Green Energy Center (aka California Energy Center) (run out of Top Design's office in Van Nuys) – http://californiagreenenergycenter.com/
5) National Renewable Energy Center – http://nationalrenewableenergycenter.com/
For months I've been receiving calls from various numbers twice a day--often with no one on the other end. When someone is on the line, it's always a telemarketer from a different solar company. Each time, I tell the caller to take my number off of their list, I block the number, and I don't receive a call from THAT number anymore, but then I start receiving calls from a NEW number! Each time, I block the number, and each time the calling stops--only to start from a new number in a week or so. Today I received calls from this number. Agreed that something needs to be done!
It started for me a few days ago and it's relentless. Usually I pick up and no one is there. It's deceiving because I reside in the 408 area code and my kid's friends often have names that I don't recognize. Today I picked up and there was a click and then someone - clearly from another country in a call center - asked for me by first and last name. It was a male voice and I asked his name. He said he was Joshua Lynch. Then he asked me if I was Claudia's daughter (apparently I have a young voice!) and I said no, this is Claudia. He hung up. I called back and received the same "phone has been disconnected" as others have reported here.
Never have any of these calls tried to sell me anything nor tell me where they were calling from. Just FYI