After I changed my number after 28 yrs, my phone scammer calls were gone for over half a year! silence!! No more blocking 10 a week! Now I am blocking more again. They caught up with snooping.
Sure, robocalls are used too but why the sudden silence for a long time? Anyone and the scammers can google your info and get into government records at court house to see everything you have. When your number is published in phone directories, you are vulnerable for it all. We all need unpublished numbers without having to pay for it. Nothing will change unless we complain to the phone companies. Also, solicitors use your driver license numbers from government records to mail solicitations to your home. Auto insurance companies are notorious for this. I know it's true, I checked it out.
call from this number from someone just saying my name and heard you were interested in going to school? Wish I knew how these people got my name too. Shady comes to mind........
I returned the call, spoke with a polite woman, and asked to be put on their do-not-call list. She told me that my number had (now) been added to the DNC list.
I was also told that it is a non-profit financial group.
8/20/2013
Tell your bosses at the "non-profit organization" that unless you actually name them it is assumed that you are paid to find mentions of this number and post positives.
This is a telemarketing call for financial aid, I have repeatedly asked to be removed from their call list and was told that they had never called me before but the caller's name was the same that I have listed in a complaint to file with the state. It is an unusual name that I cannot spell but it sounds like this Shuhmone
He informed me that they are a nonprofit organization and the do not call rules do not apply to nonprofits. He became angry when I asked why they continue to call me and said my name would be removed from their call list. We shall see!
I still plan to file a complaint against them and the 20 or so others that continue to call me. I have filed complaints with the Federal Government only to be referred back to my state.