Received a hang-up call from this number 15:23 EST 2016-01-28. A wild guess is that it is the same fireman fund scam thst other people are reporting.
Also suspicious is thst the first three digits of the local exchange number, 807, contain a zero. In general, a legacy of the old US electro mechanical telephone system is that exchange prefixes can not contain the digit zero. This is a pretty good suggestion that the number is being spoofed.
I find it interesting that I receive a lot of junk calls that actually do or at least simulate originating in the Nashville, TN geographic region. I speculate the incumbent telephone company that controls the number blocks assigned to that geographic area is lax and willing to lease use of the numbers to scammers.
This scammer was using the old "Fireman fund". Thankfully, our AARP bulletin happened to mention this very scam, so it was fresh in our mind when my 87 year old mother answered the phone tonight. How on earth do these people look at their mothers and grandmother's knowing they've robbed and abused another human being?
Received a hang-up call from this number 15:23 EST 2016-01-28. A wild guess is that it is the same fireman fund scam thst other people are reporting.
Also suspicious is thst the first three digits of the local exchange number, 807, contain a zero. In general, a legacy of the old US electro mechanical telephone system is that exchange prefixes can not contain the digit zero. This is a pretty good suggestion that the number is being spoofed.
I find it interesting that I receive a lot of junk calls that actually do or at least simulate originating in the Nashville, TN geographic region. I speculate the incumbent telephone company that controls the number blocks assigned to that geographic area is lax and willing to lease use of the numbers to scammers.