This call came from Seattle, WA. The female had an accent, perhaps Asian, and was hyper-perky or on pcp, speed, or whatever. She asked for me by name and informed me that she was calling on behalf of Direct Buy. "Congratulations, you have been selected...... $50,000...." Then, she started with the personal questions, "Are you single, married,......" I hung up at that point, knowing it was probably a scam.
Just a moment later, the phone rang again, but a different number appeared on the Caller ID: 425-111-4311. Also, a weird number was at the bottom of the Caller ID screen: M102909580000178. What is this? I answered, hoping the call was from a different person, but no, it was the same female. She wanted to know what had happened, why were we cut off (I'd hung up on her!). I told her I was busy and could not talk. She's calling tomorrow. Of course, I won't be answering. By the way, during this day, I received 2 calls from another scammer and 5 calls from a different one. I think these last two scammers are working together. Each scammer had called me yesterday, approx. 50 mins. apart and did the same thing today. What the phone hell is going on?! Must be the holidays...
Direct buy called-I answered by saying this is the direct buy prize distribution center and that their name ad been drawn as the winner of 50,000 annoying phone calls.This was answered by "uh....garbled laughter/stiffled background murmuring and then the caller hung up.I encourage everyone to have as much fun with these scammers as possible.Tell them you are the doctors clinic and that their syphillitic cultures came back postitive,we need your billing information.
Curiously, this number will not allow me to call it back.
Same routine - quite a few calls recently from that number. Woman tonight - very heavy accent - insisted she was from "Direct Buy". What I have started doing is calling the main offices of these places and telling them that since they called us and we are on the do not call list, they are obviously not worth doing business with and we will never do business with them and encourage everybody we know to also not do business with them. They are only interested in getting you on the hook and if you can convince them that their call is giving them negative business (not only you but others you know), hopefully they will go back to filling our recycle bin.