If you have an answering machine, you can outfox these predators. Record Special Information Tones (see the attached url to hear them) at the beginning of your outgoing message. This tells anyone using an autodialer that the number is out of service. A real person won't care, but then they have to listen to you tell them off. I've used these tones for the past few years and the number of telemarketing calls has dropped. I sincerely hope it helps other people to avoid these pests.
971-208-9999.: They are crooks that pretend doing a political opinion survey. Beware!!! There are big time sharks. They make you believe that you will win a boat Cruise. The only thing they want is to steal your identity, and get your credit card number, etc. BEWARE!!!!!!! They are bandits.
The problem, even if you block their phone number, they will use a different one in a couple of days and phone you again. Two days ago they were using the the following phone number: 503-457-1508 and four days ago 971-297-9963. Even if you block their telephone number, they will get a different one in a couple of days and harra people again. They are crooks, criminals, sharks, name it. BEWARE!!!!!!
971-208-9999 TODAY, 503-457-1508 TWO DAYS AGO, AND 971-297-9963 FOUR DAYS AGO. The phone calls coming from these numbers are all from the same CROOKS. Even if these numbers are blocked, these rapacious people will get back to you in a couple of days, using a new and different phone number. Beware!!!!!!
NOT A REAL SURVEY: IT IS A SCAM!!!!!!!! From:
CELEBRATION CRUISE LINES / CARIBEAN BOAT CRUISES: USING THE BANNER OF “Political Opinions of America/EFA Survey Group/CFPP” TO INDUCE GULLIBLE PEOPLE BUYING A Boat Cruise”
Phoney political survey that switches to a phoney sales pitch claiming for answering their stupid a** questions they 'reward' you with a phoney 2 day Bahamas cruise which is actually a lame time share scam. These same moron's have also been sued by another company they claimed to be (to trick those they called into answering), there's also a class action lawsuit in process against them, and when they spoofed Caller ID so it said they were from Washington State they stupidly called WA States attorney General's office, they have a fake website set up with so many syntax errors on it as well as a phoney opt out form that serves the same scamming purpose as pressing a number or either answering or calling them back ... to confirm they have a live number and the calls will get worse, these same idiotic moron's also have been calling folks in Canada where any U.S. based poll/survey would be meaningless!
This is NOT a real survey at all (nothing like Gallup, Pew or Rasmussen or any other well known and established polling organization)
This has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the elections, Obama or the national debt (or either Republican or Democratic Party)
It DOES use robo dialers to make these illegal and harassing calls
It DOES use Caller ID spoofing for malicious purposes
It claims to 'reward' you ... when no legit survey or poll does anything of the sort ... EVER!
It uses the 'survey' ruse to get around the DNC Registry so they can scam you with a phoney cruise that's actually a time share scam
They (like all the other scams) always ask for your credit card # ... no real survey/poll ever does that
They also use other spoofed numbers that have been used by the home security system scam, the credit card interest rate lowering scam and several others.
But ... I, in advance, already blacklisted this number and countless others they use and may use so all these idiots get is the disconnected number message ...each time ... all numbers! I laugh more each time they try and end up more foolish and idiotic as well as probably more PO'd. I win they lose!
I can see if they try calling by checking the call list, this time ... sure enough this number in red letters appeared there shortly before I posted. Thak God, for services like Google Voice.
These idiots just don't seem to get it that by now we ALL know it's a scam. And if they do ... shows how childishly immature they are by their constant attempt at their harassing calls ... like spoiled rotten children who disn't get their way and end up throwing a temper tantrum!
Long and short of it, it's a stupid a** scam!!!
Just got the call. A registered voice (mechanical message) Iasked me to complete a survey, and I'd get a free cruise to the Bahams. Sounds like a scam to get your credit card number. Listened to the questions out of curiosity. Sounded very biased. Sort of like, "I you think your hard-earned taxes should be sqandered or pay increases for lazy politicians, press 1 now". BEWARE!!! IT IS A SCAM