I thought it was a credit card company that keeps calling and so I pressed "3" to end the call, but then I heard a man's voice. He said something I didn't catch and I told him I did not want to receive these calls anymore. He replied "Tough Sh**"
for years we have been getting calls from 4084124097 to reduce credit card rates - I called Visa they knew nothing about this and verified calls were not be coming from them & also explained that they would never use this method of contact. I called Verizon but they only took the information but no help stopping -Verizon suggested contacting the State's Attorney General - already on the Do Not Call List - at this point we gave up
SCAM for sure
Thank you, Tom in Oshkosh!
Based on your suggestion, I purchased a Digitone call blocker and it works quite well.
For other readers, I offer two observations:
There are at least two options for those bothered by people originating these offensive calls:
1. Go to www.fcc.com and click on the electronic complaint form, filling out each of the entries (takes about two minutes), identifying the date and time of the unwanted call(s), any identifying information from Caller ID ("Unavailable" is a valid entry), your number where the call was received and your name, street and email addresses. The FCC will immediately respond with an email to you, identifying the file number assigned to your complaint. If everyone filed these complaints to the FCC, that deluge will prompt an investigation and likely a fine on the calling party.
2. I followed a recommendation from a comment listed elsewhere on 800Notes (from Tom in Oshkosh), where he was extremely frustrated over calls from 408-412-4097 (as the above folks obviously are) and purchased a DIGITONE Call Blocker from www.digitone.com Three features attracted my interest: a) I now can block up to 80 specific telephone numbers, b) This device has "First Ring Supression." meaning that you will not even hear the first ring!!, c) you can block entire area codes, a feature that can be used to block all 800, 866, 877, etc. numbers or those from specific (not toll-free, such as 408-412-4097) numbers. There may be other devices available, too. I saw immediate success with the one I purchased.
Silence can be Golden!!
Even so, I regularly report annoying/illegal/robo calls, etc. to the FCC. Now that I also use the DIGITONE device these annoying calls have been greatly reduced in number.