These people called me tonight and my caller ID said private name and then this number and I've been waiting to hear from my little bro with a new cell phone number so I answered and it was some guy saying that he was with Hero Student Loans and wanted to verify some information so they could send me a statement from the Federal Government telling me my rights as a borrower. I get offers in the mail and on the phone often asking if I want to consolidate my loan with them or whatever and so when he was verifying my name and mailing address, I just answered "uh huh" without even thinking. Then he asks for the last 4 of my social and my birthday and I give it and then he askes if I'm employed and if so, where I work. Then he asked if I happened to know my driver's liscence number and I said, "No, and I don't see what these questions have to do with my student loans" and he answered something to the effect of "Well, it's just information I need to verify" or whatever. So I hung up and then this weird feeling wouldn't go away so I called my dad and told him what happened and he told me to call the number back on my cell phone. I did and got a recording for the Hero Student Loan organizaion and gave me options for numbers to push. I called my dad back and told him and he said it was probably a legit company trying to get me to transfer my loans to their company. So I was feeling better about the whole thing until I talked to my friend who is an IT guy and he said they learned how to do the voice recording things for a business in one of his college classes. SOOO I'm going to call the local police in the morning just to file a report or whatever so that if anything does happen, I'll already have the process going to recover things. Now that I've written a novel, I'm off to bed!!
This number calls twice a day. Every time I answer, there is just dead air. They periodically leave empty messages on my voice mail. I searched the internet and found that the calls could be associated with "Student Loans Consolidation Company". However, I don't have any student loans.
This number has been calling every day for the last week. I have an unlisted number and caller ID. I have no idea who or what these people are but I do not owe anything to anyone or need anything from anyone. They do not leave any message however.
They called today, it was very noisy in the background. They claimed to be a "Student Loans Consolidation Company". After I informed him we were on the Do Not Call list (both national and state), he said he'd update his system so we aren't called again.
I to received a call from the number above and the number showed as a private number. I did call the number back and in formed them I was on the national "Do not Call List" and they claimed they will take me off their list. The company was called, "Hero Student Loan Consolidation Services"
We get these calls too. We are on both the national & state do-not call lists & have not done business with them in the past, in fact, we don't even know who they are! We do not answer the phone & no message is left on the machine.