Just a note on "Bassi Oil," which is reported as the source of the calls in many posts that have been made here:
The NYS Department of State, Division of Corporations shows "Bassi Oil" as having been filed with the state initially on January 3, 2008, in Putnam County, NY, as a Domestic Business Corporation. However, the company is shown (as of approx. 1am Eastern time, 1/14/2013) with the current status "INACTIVE - Dissolution (Jun 06, 2013)."
Putnam County, NY is covered by area codes 914 and 845. It is, of course, quite easy to spoof a number and/or relocate it officially or unofficially from one location to another. That is know as "number portability." Many people use it to keep their old number when they move or change cellular companies. Also, because caller ID (CID) is not provided in the same way as caller name (CNAM), it is even less reliable than the CID that you receive when someone calls. In particular, CID is (or can be) sent to you by the caller, who may be able to choose his own CID to send. Your own phone company then looks up the CID in a commercial database to find the CNAM, effectively doing a reverse lookup. There is no guarantee that the two databases are the same, or, that they share listings with one another, or even that they get updated as numbers are reassigned. And if the CID is spoofed, all bets are off that you will get anything reliable delivered to you a CNAM.
You can connect your own home VoIP server to a commercial CNAM provider if you want. One that I know about is https://www.opencnam.com , but there are several others, depending upon how much you want to spend to get the most current data.
There's also the fact that some telco providers do not even provide databases of customers. For example, the reported number here is part of a block administered by a company called "bandwidth.com," which, among other things, provides services for Skype, Google Voice, and Republic Wireless, the latter being a heavily discounted pay-as-you-go cell phone service, if my understanding is correct. I could be wrong, but I don't recall that Skype or Google Voice provide any database that identifies their callers, or at least doesn't, as I recall, share it with anyone else, if they do. Republic Wireless almost certainly doesn't.
Thus, to trace these scammers down (assuming that they are, in fact, scammers), it is likely to take more information to identify them than just their telephone number. Anybody with more information is welcome to report that here, and in the meantime, everyone else has a number identified that they may want to block or not answer.
The person's name and address going with this number is Christina [residential address removed]. I didn't try to call it back. There was no voice message and I don't know anyone by that name. The caller ID was "Yonkers NY". Just guessing it's a telemarketer selling Credit Card interest reduction.
>>> Just guessing it's a telemarketer selling Credit Card interest reduction. <<<
Why? So far it looks like you are a victim of nothing worse than an innocent misdialed number.
There are no other reports on the Internet that show up for this number via Google. How did you get a name, an address, and a motive(!) if she didn't leave a message and you didn't call back?
Caller ID also said Bassi Oil, caller identified himself as calling from the American Veteran's Association. They were soliciting donations. Since the caller ID and the name of the orginization didn't match, my husband told him not to call back.