If you get someone, ask like you are interested, be sweet as pie, get their company name and a contact number by saying you can not provide any information without getting their contact info first for your records. They will hang up unless the caller is new to the job. He/she may be dumb enough to give it you.
NEVER use the word YES, or any type of word indicating confirmation. I always very clearly tell them to not call this number AND that I don't want their crap. Use contractions so they can't remove the 'not' from their recording.
Or just hang up without saying anything. Or use a whistle or airhorn on their slimey [***]. I have one futures company that used to call all the time and they were [***]. Their return numbers work. So I started calling back, placing myself on mute, going into their VM and just letting them fill up with silence. Finally got the president one day, gave him an earful and they haven't called back. Knock on wood.
If you do get some kind of bill in the mail send it to your states attorneys general office and the US post master general. This is mail and phone scamming. If you actually get a business name, make a report at the BBB where the letter/invoice came from.
This all takes a few minutes of your time. Everyone of these sites makes it easy to report.
and please for the love of all that is holy never give ANYONE your personal information over the phone.SSN/DOB, bank info, not even your real name. Just tell them your name is Snookie Situation.
Oh and you can report that number to the state of origin attorneys general office as well. Unfortunately, these scammers come through on either trunk numbers or disconnected numbers which is why you can't call them back.
I received a call from this number. Caller ID said "New Jersey Call." They wanted to confirm my small business contact information and said they wanted to send me information about further advertising, but they were talking very fast, were very rude, and refused to listen when I said that I did NOT want them to send me any information. Does anyone have further information about this number?
THEY CALL ALL THE TIME!!! In a total of 8 times they have called.. or more.. one time it was to advertise on t-shirts for a local school... onetime it was to advertise on paper bags for the poor... one time it was to put us in the yellow pages. one time it was to get our name on flyers. They don't even have the correct address for us. The man who called was really nasty and called me stupid.. THEN the next time they called and I saw them on Caller ID... I told hte lady to stop calling us to take us off their call list or we were reporting them.. They told me they are calling everyday till I tell them our correct information. They said.. WE WON"T STOP!!!!! till you tell us your address... really.. I am the only one who answers the phone.. I would love to tell you people where you can stick it EVERYDAY!!! Then the last time they called the lady called me a dumbass and that she would keep calling as well till they got what they wanted.. OUR INFORMATION!!!!!!! GAME ON!
Oh Lord, I am scared. I answered and I thought it was legit cause they read us all our info and then I did tell her my name and birth date. Is anything gonna come of this????? Help