I make monthly donations to a local Hospital Foundation, and got a donor-related call from this number.
Thinking that it might be a scam, I contacted that Hospital Foundation, and was assured that they hired the company using this number to act as their agent, rather than having "in-house" staff to make such telephone calls.
It turns out that somebody at the Hospital Foundation had mis-transcribed my credit-card information, and the donor-related call was their attempt to correct the records.
So, in this case, the company that uses this phone-number was completely legitimate.
I did talk directly to the Hospital Foundation, to make the correction -- I did not want to give my credit-card information to a "third-party".
Just received a call from a man at that number a few minutes ago asking to speak with my partner, who wasn't in. The man said he was calling to thank my partner for his support to "Friends of Broadcasting". Called my partner who said he supported them by "liking" them on facebook, and he received their newsletter by eMail. Hmmm.
I received a call from this number as part of a fund-raising campaign for "The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting" who are trying to raise funds to counter the Federal government's "disproportionate" cuts to the CBC. It makes one wonder whether these disproportional cuts are a payback for the CBC shining the light of empirical evidence onto the Conservative Party's political dogmas.
We've been receiving calls from this number incessantly for the past few weeks. Terribly annoying, since there's never anyone at the other end when we answer.
How do we stop this abuse? They may be Friends of CBC, but they're no longer friends of ours!!! Please make them stop!