I work as an on-call doctor and HAVE to leave my emergency cellphone on 24/7. These people found the number and begun calling me 3 weeks ago. As I also work 2 14 hour night shifts in the ER per week, I sleep during the day. I have been awakened at least 5 times by these people. Every time I answer, half-asleep, I am hung up on. Until yesterday. Yesterday they claimed to be asking for money for Vets. I said no, explained my situation and asked that they quit calling. The person on the other end swore at me and hung up the phone. Less than 24 hours and I was jarred from my sleep again -- again it was them.
Can anything be done about this? This isn't just exhausting me, it's potentially putting the lives of my patients at risk who need me to be well-rested and alert while making life-changing decisions for them. On my caller ID it does say "MNVFW." Are the even legit? Could that be MN VFW? Are others here being called being called from Minnesota. These people are calling as often as twice a day and won't let up when you ask them to stop. Who can this be reported to and what can be done to stop it?
I work as an on-call doctor and HAVE to leave my emergency cellphone on 24/7. These people found the number and begun calling me 3 weeks ago. As I also work 2 14 hour night shifts in the ER per week, I sleep during the day. I have been awakened at least 5 times by these people. Every time I answer, half-asleep, I am hung up on. Until yesterday. Yesterday they claimed to be asking for money for Vets. I said no, explained my situation and asked that they quit calling. The person on the other end swore at me and hung up the phone. Less than 24 hours and I was jarred from my sleep again -- again it was them.
Can anything be done about this? This isn't just exhausting me, it's potentially putting the lives of my patients at risk who need me to be well-rested and alert while making life-changing decisions for them. On my caller ID it does say "MNVFW." Are the even legit? Could that be MN VFW? Are others here being called being called from Minnesota. These people are calling as often as twice a day and won't let up when you ask them to stop. Who can this be reported to and what can be done to stop it?
I just called the 1-800 number the give on the message claiming they are collecting money for Veterans of Foreign Wars. The 1-800 number gives you a message saying, "To talk to live ladies 24 hours a day call" and gives another number to a phone sex line. These people need to be reported to the Minnesota Attorney General and Congressmen and women need to be written to about this scam.
what message? geez, I answer it and they hang up. no message, nobody there. I redialed the number twice... both times I get an 800 number that is disconnected.
I left a message at the real VFW-MN telling them there was some scam going on using them. I don't know if it will help, but it makes me feel better!
We get called on our home phone by this number. We get so many solicitations that we have a piece of paper by the phone w/ numbers we know not to answer. This is one of them... I wish the government had more regulation about solicitations. We also get a lot of solicitations on the fax machine, which is even worse because the fax paper is not cheap!! I can't believe people can get away with doing that...
We get at least 2 of these calls EVERYDAY, usually around meal times, which makes it even more disruptive. I have tried to answer a couple of times, but there is no one there when I say, "Hello." So now when I see the number on our caller ID I just pick up the phone and hang it back up right away so I don't have to listen to the phone ring and wait for my answering machine to get hung up on. Does anyone know where we can report this so we can try to get this stopped? I would love to help, but where do we start?