The give-away that this was a robo-call was the extended pause between when I picked up the call and the start of the message. The message was spoken by a "cultured" white male voice, that said "Hello". A comment at another call reporting site indicated that this was a "senior phishing" operation.
This number has turned up some odd companies that seem to have used it, or even are still using it: Primera Clase Taxi of Lowell, MA, and Empire Astoria Electric Co., New York, in Astoria, N.Y. Another check on this number brought up the location Woodside, N.Y. -- no name of a company, though.
Called twice yesterday, once today. Left a voice mail today saying they were referred to me by a friend and to press 1 to get my free personal medical alert system. Huh????? Yeah, they are blocked.
I did the same thing! No VM no call back from me. I don't know the number I don't answer. I have started to hit the 'fax' button on my printer for some of these calls. whatever happened to the No Call Registry???
They called yesterday and today and I am on Do not call list. I looked up the number and it says it is some electric company in New York. It appears they are scammers and I blocked them from my phone but of course they will probably use another number to try again. I have caller ID and so not answer if I don't know the number.
This caller said they worked for Microsoft and detected a virus on my computer. They want you to log in and go to command prompt .where they walk you through typing a series of command .to allow them to take over your computer. They then will hold your computer for ransom.pay or lose everything.