516-430-5190 | New York (Freeport, Garden City, Glen Cove)
Within the last day or so, my private/unpublished cellphone number has been bombarded by numerous other Verified SPAM calls; i.e., 507-540-0434, 410-844-5580, 417-800-2303, 607-203-5527, 202-407-6432, 571-441-0131, 407-476-5608, and now 516-430-5190...sheesh! These calls are no doubt originating from the same call center/'robo caller', as it’s just too coincidental. Also, many of these appear to be numbers originating out of the eastern half of the USA?
The fact that I've been recently receiving a lot of these types of calls from various numbers throughout the eastern half of the USA, has led me to believe that either some ‘scumbag’ has ‘cracked’ my cellphone provider’s database or that my cellphone provider (or a 'mole' within that organization) has no doubt added my number to a 'Verified Active Phone Number' list and has then sold my number to one of their call center clients in order to circulate some additional revenue?
I religiously do not answer/have not ever answered calls from numbers not listed within my phone's 'Contact List', but instead, I add them as a Verified SPAMMER (sans ring tone) to it, so that I'll know that such 'bogus' calls are to be ignored in the future. I ignore these calls so that maybe after several rings/unanswered calls, parasites like these might hopefully and eventually drop my number from their "Let's See Who We Can Try To SCAM Today" list; however, they'll just no doubt use a different/new number the next time. Heck, I'm already up to seventeen pages of Verified SPAMMERs with the majority originating out of the eastern half of the USA or out of the Pacific Northwest…pfft!
You know these ‘call center criminals’, they're the ones using the (everyday American) first name (moniker/alias) such as Andrew, Amy, Ann, Andy, Steve, Sam, Sylvia, Susan, Tom, Theresa, Mike, Mary, Bob, Bill, or whomever 'running' a 'Gift Card' Scam, the ‘Home Loan Modification’ SCAM, a 'phony (generic) Survey' SCAM, the usual ‘Home Security’ SCAM, the well-known 'Cruise Line' SCAM, the 'bogus Political Survey' SCAM, the highly illegal ‘Microsoft Windows Security Specialist’ SCAM, somebody claiming to have legal authority and is with some sort of attorney's office, somebody pretending to be a process server (who will never call you - BTW), etc.
In addition, I never respond to nor return these calls, especially using the "press 1 to be removed" feature, as all types of calls like these are all just simply SCAMs and these Spammers / Spoofers / Phishers / Scammers 'don't play by the rules' anyway. Calling them back or picking-up the calls only shows them that you are in fact a 'live' number. Their only intent is to illegally ascertain your personal info for their own dubious purposes and nothing more! They’re nothing more than 'Grifters' (aka Con Artists/SCAMMERS) and should be treated as the criminals that they are!