Exactly - called me at 8:38 last night. It was dark and I did not look at the caller ID. Said my name in form of a question. I replied yes and then a short pause and a lady came on saying I was more difficult to reach than her grandkids. I realized then, that it was a scam call. ID noted on phone was United Breast C......will be keeping close eye on my all my bills and accounts for any authorized items. We are on the donotcall.gov list and they have been reported.
Some kind of United Breast Cancer Foundation Clearing Based in Huntington, NY 11746 Gets a VERY LOW RATING From Charity Navigator The call was unsolicited
Have received many calls from this number. I simply connect, then immediately disconnect, so I don't have to listen to the phone ring and it won't go to voicemail. However, I received yet ANOTHER call from them this evening at 7:02pm, so I decided to do a little digging. Caller ID showed UNITED BREAST C - - - who knows if it's actually United Breast Cancer Foundation? Did a reverse White Pages lookup, and it showed the owner of that number is "unknown," so it is possibly a spoofed number? United Breast Cancer Foundation is located in Huntington, New York, and this phone number (480-409-8023) is from Phoenix, AZ, so it's maybe someone just pretending to be United Breast Cancer Foundation. Although, given the fact that UBCF has a truly ABYSSMAL rating, I don't know why anyone would "pretend" to be them!!
Anyway, I did some online research on United Breast Cancer Foundation, and this excerpt from one of the websites pretty much sums up what they all had to say: "United Breast Cancer Foundation was founded in 2000 to provide grants and assistance to patients and families coping with breast cancer. The foundation is run by the Mastroianni family. Audrey S. Mastroianni serves as executive director. Her father and brother serve on the board. The charity has raised about $11.5 million over the past 10 years and spent more than half of that on professional fundraisers. About 6 percent of the money raised has been spent on direct financial assistance to those in need." SIX PERCENT??!!! A valid, reputable charity should direct at least 75% of funds raised to the people they're supposed to be helping.
Bottom Line: Whether or not this 480-409-8023 is really United Breast Cancer Foundation, DO NOT GIVE THEM ANYTHING!!! HANG UP ON THEM!!!! Or better yet, don't even answer the call.
So thankful for pages like this and people who take the time to post information. Never got a call from this number (490-409-8023) before this morning and and just rec'd my second call this afternoon. No message and comes in as United Breast C . Just yesterday I'd had a mammogram and my insurer is United Health Care so getting a second call kind of concerned me a smidge. I ALMOST called them back. I figured a legit call would have at least left a message. I'm glad I did a little research here.