Received two calls this morning from this number. I did not answer and they did not leave a message on my voicemail. The reason I did not answer is that my caller id showed "Do Not Pickup" as the name of the person calling. I assumed it was some sort of scam.
received the call at about 2pm looking for one of our attorney's by name. Claims he was from some company AIA, then i asked again what was the name of his company and he said Microsoft. I know for a fact that microsoft doesn't call from New Jersey and i don't believe they use a call center that far from home base. He claimed his name was Jeff Thompson. I know for a fact that Jeff Thompson doesn't have an Middle Eastern accent! Who do these people take me for? When they don't answer my questions i hang up on them. I don't confirm if the person works here or not. Why should i so they can keep calling and getting on my nerves? I think not.
I got a call for the same number. I did further research and came to a web page with the name of the company - http://www.wherecall.com/AreaCode-Exchange/856-204.2.htm. It is the Ymax Corporation. I then googled that company and located it at www.ymaxcorp.com. The founder invented the MagicJack, and they sell that product from that website. The phone call for us came from Vineland, NJ this AM. At the company website they have a contact page that only lists a mailing address in West Palm Beach, FL. Finally, there appear to be complaints filed, but not about the phone calls. It appears the MagicJack may not be what is made out to be. I do hope this has helped all of you.
We received a call from this same number (856-204-0000) today (9/10/2009). My caller ID indicated the call was coming from Vineland, NJ. The person calling asked for one of our attorneys by name (full name). When I asked "Who's calling please", the peson calling responded with "This is Mike Miller and it is an emgerency. Please hurry and get him". When I told them the attorney they were calling for was out of the office, they hung up on me.
Windy, it's probably not YMAX who's calling; it's somebody using a Magic Jack. YMAX is the company behind Magic Jack, and they sell their VoIP network at retail, so anybody looking to make cheap phone calls without being traceable could see it as a good choice. So the callers are not really in Vineland, and it's not even certain that they're using Magic Jack/YMAX to make the calls -- they could be spoofing Caller ID.