This is a fraud campaign currently active in Canada using a series of VOIP numbers. The objective is to obtain your credit card number and drain your account.
If you attempt to "opt out" your number will be confirmed as live and added to a suckers list for repeated future calls.
I answered without looking at the call display, otherwise, straight to voice mail screening, I asked the person not to call this number again since it's currently being used for a covert municipal level project and any caller to this number could be called into court at some point as a possible witness or cooperator. Then I suggested he stop selling weed and get a real job rather than this "front" BS job he has in order to satisfy the CRA
I got a call from this number today while I was out. I tried to call it back today and it said the number was no longer in service. Please find these crooks, I'm so sick of them hacking into phone lines and trying to scam harmless and innocent citizens. Get these people behind bars!!!!!
Thanks posters, I got a call from these scammers today as well as:
1-778-329-0290
1-778-775-1534 - within minutes of each other.
ALL are Scam Calls - a legit company displays its name, or will leave a message AND they respect the Do Not Call Lists. The idea that scammers get the lists and call is a fallacy. Any 'win a prize/survey/reduce rates/etc.etc.' that does not mention a REAL company name are fraudsters and part of organized crime.
They use a computer and VoIP internet connection, and a robo-dialer, and dial numbers in sequence. They do not know you; and do not CARE about Registries. Once you answer or press ANY buttons, it flags your number as 'valid' - you get more calls and they share/sell that data to others.
Check the RCMP Top Scams website - these are ALL scams to get your personal data and credit info or income level - to create Fake IDs in your name and commit more fraud! Don't answer, and just hang up.
Report the number with date & time of call, and type of scam, to your anti-fraud unit. If you want to help, do that and write your elected official asking them to fund against telecommunications fraud. Remember it takes time and international government cooperation to gather the evidence (or change laws) to shut these b.....ds down and prosecute them. Be part of the Solution!