this is ARC (Accounts Recovery Corp) and they are in British Columbia and they seem now to like to fake that they are calling from your own local area so that you pick up the phone. the lady that called me from this number 780-666-0972 today stated she was calling from Victoria, BC.
time to find out if collection agencies are allowed to 'spoof' the phone numbers they are calling from!
this is ARC (Accounts Recovery Corp) and they are in British Columbia and they seem now to like to fake that they are calling from your own local area so that you pick up the phone. the lady that called me from this number 780-666-0972 today stated she was calling from Victoria, BC.
time to find out if collection agencies are allowed to 'spoof' the phone numbers they are calling from!
I have also received a phone spoof call from this 780 # and it was from the Victoria office of ARO.
I called the CRTC and was told this is illegal as per the Do Not Call Registry. So it would appear that ARO, based in Quebec,
(coincidentally Montreal is source of a number of phone fraud calls I receive) is breaking the law by concealing the origin telephoen number. I will make a complaint on this incident.
I am getting calls as well from them, and when the lady on the phone asked if my name was Jamie, and I asked who she was I got told just Lori, and that if I didn't identify myself that "let me be blunt, we won't get very far", is what she said. I put her number on my reject list so it just puts the number to my VM right away. But the number is showing up as an Edmonton number.