Called my cell phone. Said everything was ok with my credit cards but they could help with the interest on my balances. Might add that they called at about 8:30 am. Obviously a scam
I received a call from this number, on my cell, at 5:31 a.m.! No message. I called the number back and a message said, "If you would like to be put on our no-call list, please press 1" No company name, or anything else. I pressed 1. I hope that wasn't a mistake. What a dumb phone call! I wish we could outlaw robo-calls.
They called and as usual left no message just waiting to see if I answered or if a fax kicked in. The FCC no longer takes complaints regarding the phone scammers who robodial your number then neither leave any message nor talk. Worse yet, some states such as NJ, no longer take complaints about DNC violations and the roborectums know that thus our elected legislators have given them a blessing to continue annoying us. Not to mention that when the caller realizes he/she/it has been blocked, they either get a new number to call from or spoof a different number.
To make things even worse, all phone providers profit by providing service to these scammers and won’t shut them down as it would be lost income for every phone provider who is aiding and abetting the scammer.
Every phone provider knows the robo-terrorists are out there just by monitoring the bandwidth they utilize and frequency of calls from a single source. We are all victims of this crime and it’s high time to fight back – contact your phone service provider and request to make your number a toll number for incoming calls from any “Out of the Area”, “Unavailable”, 800, 844, 866 or 888 numbers, so when robocallers attack your privacy then they must pay you for your valuable time. And for paybacks – identify the roboscum by asking them for their address so you can send them a check and then hang up. Use their mailing address on every postage paid postcard you find in magazines. On the up side - this will help reduce the USPS debt.
Contact your legislators to stop the robocallers – send them a complaint every time you get a call. Tell them to stop the scumbags or you will elect someone who will!
Also, why not sue the phone providers for their inaction to pull the plug on these phone terrorists as well? A fantastic class action suit awaits a great attorney team on this one, because it appears that neither Federal nor State authorities give a damn to protect us and openly permit the phone companies to continually profit from your life being interrupted. Verizon’s Call Intercept service (a $9.99 per month ransom plus federal and local taxes) limits you to 25 numbers. So I use a Panasonic KX-TG6844 phone that can block 250 numbers. The cost of $111 paid for itself in a year and I dropped the Verizon intercept service extortion service fee.
Finally, contact the Consumer Union (Consumer Reports) site www.EndRobocalls.org and sign their petition to pressure the phone companies and lobby the government. It won’t cost you a cent! BTW, recent news articles (early July 2015) indicate Verizon is going to screw us more during their attempt to deregulate communications services and fees which could cost us more by buying into their anonymous call intercept useless service, etc. Come to think of it, consider the possibility that these scammers are phone company employees!
Very few unknown calls come in on my cell phone, but this one did. No message on voice mail. I have a low-tech cell phone, so I don't think I can block them. But I do save them and label them Scam so I don't answer the next time they call. Funny thing, though - this call came in right after a previously blocked call rang (once) on my land line. Totally different numbers, so it was probably a coincidence.