I got the same message and accidentally pressed '1' to apparently volunteer during working hours today. I'm supposed to 'report' to a public school in queens that is nowhere close to where I live. This number has called four times since then.
I'm thinking this has to be a phishing scam. I'm just pissed that they now have my number.
I was a school teacher for one year back in 2008-2009. Does anyone else here work for the government?
I got the same message and accidentally pressed '1' to apparently volunteer during working hours today. I'm supposed to 'report' to a public school in queens that is nowhere close to where I live. This number has called four times since then.
I'm thinking this has to be a phishing scam. I'm just pissed that they now have my number.
I was a school teacher for one year back in 2008-2009. Does anyone else here work for the government?
Hi I've had at least 5 calls from this number, starting with three yesterday and 2 today. Most of them were a male voice recording asking for volunteers to work at the hurricane relief shelters. Today, there was a female voice recording stating that they hadn't heard back from me and "really need" my help. Claims to be from Office of Emergency Management.
Same here, I keep receiving phone calls from this number. I have just checked the messages and I haven't responded as of yet but I have never heard of this being a possibility. You would think that if this was something that we might be called on to do as city workers we would have received a phone call, training, something.... this call out of no where with no warning is just weird.
The number 718-422-8818 is an automated calling center that is used by OEM during emergency preparation. I called the OEM at 718-422-4800 and found out that if *anyone* in your home is or has been a NYC employee, you will get the call. My husband is a city employee which is why we were getting the calls; however, because of the work he does, he is on-call for emergencies no matter what so the calls were unnecessary. You can email OEM at coastal_storm_plan_messages(at)OEM(dot)NYC(dot)gov, give them the number that is being called and ask them to remove you from their list. I'd also call them just to make sure.
Note: The calls I got did not give me an option for selecting "Will not be available to volunteer" and the calls were coming in at all hours of the day AND night, about a call every hour. You are supposed to be able to opt out and stop getting calls.