This call originates from my area code, so I made the mistake of answering it yesterday. It was a woman who asked to speak to the person who handles the electric bill. She claimed to be from a legitimate group that works with my energy company to lower bills. She made it seem like it was a public assistance service. I tried several times to tell her I wasn't interested and that I had to go, and she actually laughed at me and said,'why wouldn't you want to save money.' She was very defensive and hostile for someone from an allegedly legitimate group. Long story short: it's a scam. You're better not to answer and engage these people.
This board is simply a sounding board for people to vent and inform others of scam telemarketing calls they receive. There is no authority associated with the 800notes site to stop these callers. In order for people to collectively stop these type calls they must act together - and TAKE ACTION! It doesn’t do any good to complain about a caller on this board unless you then take the next step and do something about it! The caller ID number is usually a ‘Spoof Number” – A Fake! Never, never, ever engage the caller or call back the number. The false robocallers will then capture your number as a ‘live one’ and use it over and over and sell it to other scammers. The same goes if it prompts you to ‘press a key’ to ‘opt out’ of their calling lists, or be transferred to someone, as this will only ‘log’ your number as a working one and make it ripe for future calls and to be sold to other scam companies as well.
The best option is simply to hang up, keep your own list of calling numbers with dates and times and report them to the FCC below. There is space on their complaint form to list several calling dates and times of a repeat caller.
The DO NOT CALL list is worthless, they do not act on anything, just build a database of numbers.
In order to do something to help stop these type calls, everyone - EVERYONE needs to file an online complaint directly with the FCC. If they receive enough complaints about a particular number - they will act on it. Do it today and pass along the info:
This number called 6/20/14 at 2:41pm on my cell phone. I was outside and my husband hit the I'm away from the phone message by accident. No message is ever left. Not the first time I've gotten a call from this number, and probably not the last. How can we block this number from our phones?
I received a call to my cell phone from this number. A man asked to speak with the person responsible for paying the electric bill. I stated this is a cell phone and I think you have the wrong number. He said ok and hung up. First time receiving this call and it was about 9:45am.