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 don't know who these people are...they call my work every single day...very rude....very GHETTO!!! and will hang up before I can ask them to remove us from the calling list! what a bunch of [***]!!!
I have gotten NUMEROUS calls from these people who say they are doing "free business listings" The first 10 or 20 times I explained I had this number for over 5 years and it is NOT a business. I also stated that this line was used for an 87 year old's man heart monitor. The lady ASSURED me it would be taken off their call rotation.
I keep getting the calls. My father gets upset when he answers and can't hear due to his hearing aid problems.
I answered today and the guy said he would NOT take me off the rotation. That I AM RUDE. That he would keep calling until he got a PAUL Stewart, whoever that is. I told him to look at the phone listing and it is my name.
I also told him we have been on the DO NOT CALL registry for years. He said I CAN"T be on that because I am a business and I again said we are a private residence.
There has got to be legal action against this person. Help.
We have received calls from this number for the last couple weeks. We always get dead air. No one on the other end at all, not even static. Its such a strange number to have come up on the caller ID so we knew something was up. When I typed in the number in the google search I found all these other people having the same experience. My number is even registered with the national do not call list. I do not know what to do about it but will try and find out.