Answered call from 617-861-9776 which listed Somerville, AM in the name field. Caller said he was Jim Collins from the Amercian Veterans Support Foundation. Recognizing this as a scam I told him that my number was on a do not call list and requested that he honor my request. I called back 10 minutes later and confirmed that this is his number and not a spoofed number.
We got a call from this number today at 12:23 pm and didn't answer. No voicemail message was left. The caller ID was MASSACHUSETTS. When I called back (our number is hidden by default on outgoing calls) I heard a highly sophisticated computer program which would fool some into believing it was a live person answering. It started out with "Hello" and waited for a reply before continuing with "Thanks for calling back. This is Joel Collins calling for the American Veterans Support Foundation." The program may be highly sophisticated but when I replied in Italian it continued anyway. This scam has used several different numbers, all of which have been added to our call blocker. This is a new one to be added. Two other numbers with Massachusetts area codes used in the past are 413-658-0335 and 617-861-4695. Other numbers also used are 240-241-7819, 240-252-3089, 240-949-7490, and 443-898-9286. Such a computer program must be expensive, but it probably collects a huge amount of money from people unaware that it is a scam.