This number has called twice today; indicating they were from the fraud division of the govt. They wanted me to call a return number to avoid further action of a law suit pending. I did not get the return number; as I have been called by several of these creeps. I will not give them the satisfaction. Later tried the above number and got an all circuits busy; and also a ring no answer. This is fraud; just using the common criminal phone number to try to get someone to bite. FRAUD!!
This is the company that is making the scam calls - http://www.level3.com/
Don't expect any change the CEO is part of the Federal Gov't.
So in the end this is being given a green light by the Fed.
I have been getting this call for the past week or two on our landline at home. Usually ignore it (and, strangely this person never leaves a message on our recorder), but decided to pick it up and make sure it wasnt a call for someone by the name of Mrs. King...we get calls quite often (doctor offices, etc) asking for this woman, and she has NEVER lived at this address (and we bought our home from the original owners).
The caller was a young male with a thick accent-obviously english was his second language. He asked for Mrs. King and I told him to please take our name off the call list as a Mrs. King has never lived here. More babble that I couldnt understand, then he replies that he cannot do that and proceeds to say goodbyegoodbyegoodbyegoodbye right over me trying to tell him yet again that Mrs. King doesnt live here. Mad about him being rude, I said "whatever" and hung up on him.
Then I called the number back, thinking he might be from a call center and the number will go thru queue to another caller where I can contact a supervisor and report his behavior (and get our number off the call list). I dialed the 646-502-6605 that showed up on my caller ID and it just rang into oblivion...with nobody answering it. I waited 10 minutes and tried calling back on my cell (as now I needed to leave the house for an appointment), it then had a disconnection notice...meanwhile back at our house: my husband gets a phone call from a "private unknown" number on our caller ID on our landline. My husband answers it and is greeted by the same male voice telling him, "you, your wife, your mother and your dad can [***] and have my sperm"...my husband replied, "you sound like a moron", and hung up on the guy.
Internet reverse search on the phone number says NY, NY...however, I wonder if he has some software that cloaks his actual location...is he even calling from the US?
Would REALLY like to NOT have to be harrassed at home (from the posts so many other are too)...somebody PLEASE silence this guy.
It's best to not even answer the phone from this guy. I answered a while back (after he called from a different number) and he fed me the same line that he fed to the other posters on this site. He's supposedly from Windows and there's a problem with my computer, and I just need to log on and follow his steps and he'd clear my computer of the viruses that he knows it has.
I happened to be online at the time, so I Googled the phone number and read about his scheme while he lied to me over the phone. I told him that I did not have Windows, and he called me a liar and said that I am on record as having Windows. I asked, "Do you even know who it is you're talking to?" He said yes, and then called me by my sister's name.
As a little bit of clarification, I am a male with a very male-sounding voice, and my sister's name is a very feminine-sounding name. There is no way this guy should have mistaken me for my sister. On top of that, my sister only briefly lived with me for a very short period of time about a decade ago. During that short time she was staying with me, she may or may not have had Windows.
Anyway, I called the guy out on his lies and then he got angry and threatened to kill me. He even told me to look outside because there was supposed to be two of his associates outside waiting to come in and murder me and my family after raping my wife and kids. I laughed at the guy, we exchanged some angry words, and I eventually hung up on him. He called back a few times, which I did not answer, and then I blocked his number (an easy option with Comcast).
Long story short, there is no way this guy would make the threats he does from within the United States. Even these verbal threats can be investigated by law enforcement. I have no doubt the guy is using some fancy phone tricks to call from outside the United States. I have heard that he also has a female accomplice, also with a thick accent, who is just as rude and threatening as he is.
My advice is to never answer the phone from numbers you do not recognize. If it's important, they'll leave a message (or send you a letter through the mail). If they constantly call with no messages left, block them. They'll eventually move on to an easier target.
I am a social worker working with senior citizens. The person calling from this number has been calling some of my clients every day, trying to scam them. They tell them that there is a terrible problem with their computer and try to make them go to the computer to "fix" it, when they are actually trying to access this account. DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS CALLER.