During the course of the last few days, I have received and continue to receive clls from this number at least 3 times a day on my cell phone. And they call at a time when I am at work and unable to answer their call. However, I tried to call back to determine who is calling and why but to no avail. Is there anything I can do to stop this call? Please help for it is simply irritating. Thanks
Rec'd call from this # @ 8:19 PM EDT. The caller ID said "." and this number: 657-202-9006. I did not recognize the area code and do not answer calls of this type. Researching online, I see it is a telemarketing call for homeless veterans, in California. Why they would call all the way to FL, plus use a telemarketing firm which charges a large percentage of the money taken in is beyond me. I am sick & TIRED of all these telemarketing calls. We need some kind of filtering system so we do not have to get up & answer all these dumb calls all day long. I only give to charities known personally to me and are local.
No one seems to have heard of this entity, but this exact name was being used in Florida for a few months in late 2011 with the numbers 352-289-3063 and 352-533-3410. The current phone number shown on these calls is, indeed, in Anaheim, CA, but it may well have been spoofed on the Caller ID and the calls actually came from Montana, Manitoba, or one of many other places.. The single period is simply an anonymous way of avoiding their calls being intercepted for no name in the Caller ID (my Panasonic cordless phone set has call blocking and does indeed block calls with no name in the CID).
Of course, this is a scam without doubts - an unknown name not given until they have their target (you) live on the phone line, attempting to rip you off for even very small donations and presenting a Caller ID with their calls that is nothing except trying to keep themselves anonymous. You may be certain that these creeps are NOT going to provide any help to needy veterans or, for that matter, to anyone other than themselves. The blank below for call type should permit the use of the word "thief."
I received a call from American Homeless Vets, evidently a subsidiary of Circle of Friends for American Veterans. The solicitor provided me the following web site address: www.vetsvision.org. I followed up by going to the site, and found that the foundation provides only 12% of its annual revenues to programs for vets. (This information based on a Charitable Organizations report by the Sec. of State of Washington.) The Charity Navigator website has not provided additional information of this foundation. For those donating, I personally never give to charitable foundations that have this high overhead for administration and collection/