Who called from 6053850259

This is a recorded message about some type of senior medic alert device --  you can press something (on the device, I assume) and never have to worry about being alone again (according to the message).    The device is supposedly "absolutely no charge", but I suspect that if you are hooked by that line, then they will insist on selling some sort of expensive long term monitoring contract.  The message, at the end. does give an option to press '1' in order to order the device or press '5' to be removed from the calling list -- I've never had one of those removal options work.   The call was disconnected by the caller before I could decide what to do, which certainly would not have included actually buying whatever they were supposedly selling.    

The point is that prerecorded telemarketing calls are illegal without prior written agreement and my phone number has been on the national do not call list nearly since its  inception, and I in no way directly, or indirectly, gave permission to whomever this is to be calling me.    So, this call was illegal in multiple ways.  

South Dakota residents (and I far as I know the calls from this number are only being made to South Dakota) can report these calls to the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission at 1-800-332-1782 or e-mail: [email protected] or the federal no not call list or FTC.

The 385 telephone prefix is apparently a Rapid City area prefix, the same type of calls are/were being made from an Aberdeen area prefix, too -- if I remember what I read here some time ago correctly.

This could be a company with the real name of Elite Information Solutions licenced by the Florida Dept. of Agriculture.  Their address is 495 Semoran Blvd., Casselberry Fl.  The owner's name is Michael Hilgar.  Please file a  complaint with the Florida Dept of Agriculture - 800-435-7352.  Please also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission - 877-382-4357.  Inform them that this may be related to case #36077052.

I have recieved several calls from this number. Never an answer when I pick up. Wish we could stop this. I am on the no call list for all the good it does. Witch is none at all.

Received another call from this number.  This time I pressed '1' to find out what it was about.   The representative that I talked to offered me the $400+ device free along with free shipping.    He said that there was a $35.95/month (maybe it was $34.95/month -- something like that anyway) non-contract monitoring fee that could be cancelled at any time.   He said that I should sign up right away because he couldn't guarantee how long the offer would be available -- maybe not even tomorrow.     The representative spent quite a bit of time on the phone with me and kept asking why I wouldn't make a commitment.

He asked if I had any questions and remembering what Al said below about it possibly being a Florida company, I asked how the weather was in Florida.   He said it was nice and that he was in a call center right outside Orlando  (Orlando is near Casselberry  which Al mentioned).  I guess that I should have asked that if he was in Florida why they were spoofing a South Dakota number to make it appear that the call was coming from South Dakota, but I didn't think of it.

He certainly wasn't the worst telemarketer that I've had to deal with.    But, who knows what will happen next since I talked to one of their representatives.  Usually, it is not a good idea to talk to them at all.   And, the calls are still in violation of the Do Not Call list.

We're now receiving calls from this number but do not answer incoming calls of any kind unless there's Caller ID.  Wouldn't hurt to let the South Dakota PUC know about calls shown as coming from a South Dakota number but originating from Florida.  May be some interesting legalities involved.  Yes, Do Not Call was a nice concept but to see the big loopholes in the Act all you have to do is look at all the Privacy notices sent out by your credit card companies, banks, etc.   Almost all of them state that unless you call them they can share your information with their associated companies.  Define associated companies, as such would apply to Capitol One, for example.