Called my home phone, left no message. Phone display read BREA, CA. Maybe a simple wrong number, though I doubt it in light of the preceding post. If this number rings in again without a message or an apology, they are blocked.
Called my home phone, left no message. Phone display read BREA, CA. Maybe a simple wrong number, though I doubt it in light of the preceding post. If this number rings in again without a message or an apology, they are blocked.
714 990 1073 calls our home phone. Waits for answer machine to answer and come on to leave message.
Then leaves no message and hangs up ---after letting the recording record the wait time.
This is happening all the time and from other numbers as well,.
There is no way to do call screening on those obnoxious phone calls.
Why is the phone company letting people or businesses have these numbers. When you call the number back
the message says it is an unknown phone number and other such words.
Has called me twice on my cell and left no message when sent to voice mail. Called the number back and get a recorded disconnected telephone number message. Added to call blocking. Caller ID shows them to be a land-line located in Brea.
Have several calls on my Caller ID…. funny. Tried calling this number and "we are sorry this number has been disconnected or no longer in service" WHAT?! They just called!
This number appears to be the SPOOF call from telemarketer to see if you answer (live or answering machine) then hangup. There is NO intent to speak to you. It is expected to hang up if/when you answer.
These hangup SPOOF first-calls are often using your local area-code to trick you to pickup.
Its purpose is to see if you are home --- then moments later, you may receive a string of up to 5-10 telemarketing calls from the usual suspects to follow (for the rest of the day, perhaps up to 8 - 8:30pm local time, and then it stops)
If you answer (or if your answering machine answers), you will be rewarded with more calls (from OTHER numbers).
...and you may notice that they arrive at somewhat regular intervals for the rest of the day.
I got my first follow-up call (this time) 2-minutes after my answering-machine picked-up this SPOOF call (from another number that calls me daily for months now , and I already block) --- 202-769-0723 Tea Party LF which has NOTHING to do with the Tea Party, I suspect/believe it is coming from telemarketing vendor Strategic Fundraising - www.strategicfundraising.com however I have no way to prove it. Since usually the call pattern each day is very much alike.
1 - get <spoof> call that hangs up. Sometimes the spoof hangup 1st call number is used again in the future.
Sometimes I hangup on it (before it goes to answering-machine but not sure it helps) and sometimes if I
do, it calls me back quickly (to fool me to pick it up and speak in the line - to tell telemarketer that someone is home).
2- get string of follow on calls (usually from the SAME scammers almost every day, every week, for months)
Tea Party LF
construction contractor home-repair SCAM
free cruise / survey SCAM
free disney or florida vacation SCAM
solar go green SCAM (variety of pitches, some fake to be from SCE Edison)
ATT Messaging - America Going Green - solar
Refinance scam (home mortage or credit card interest rate SCAMs)
heart scan body imaging SCAM
childrens cancer SCAM (or variety of other tear-jerk charity) SCAM (99% of money does not go to charity)
breast cancer SCAM (as per above, 99% of money goes to telemarketer)
bank card services - credit card SCAM
free alarm system home-security SCAM
GE alarm system SCAM free alarm system - or take over maintenance/support and monitoring of your existing alarm
carpet cleaning - Rachel go-green carpet cleaning
air duct cleaning
HARP mortgage
house painting
medic alert - life alert
microsoft virus scam (detected your computer is infected, pay me to fix it and log into your system)
the calls often come in in "waves"... often following an initial "hangup" first spoof call, then arriving in regular succession for the rest of the day.. this whole mess appears to occur between roughly 7:30am-8:30pm every day, often 7-days a week with random days off. I suspect all or most of them are coming from a short list of telemarketer boiler rooms (some located in US and India).