It's one of those pre-recorded messages that may sound like a live person but he's not. I was waiting for a call from Time Warner so I said, "Is this Time Warner?" The robo-man said, "Great!" (meaning great that someone answered the phone). Supposedly a police association soliciting donations for fallen policemen's families. They certainly know what track to play when you tell him NO. "Won't you reconsider?" The valid police associations don't call on the phone. When I used to make websites, we had a man ask for seven websites to solicit for everyone from police to fire to all the armed services. They were two men in Ft. Worth. I refused to make the websites unless they paid the entire charge in advance. It wasn't too long before they were run out of Texas and popped up in Florida trying to run the same scam. They give very little money and aren't licensed by the state to solicit. Blocking the number on my phone.
Received call March 24, 2015 @ 1:52 p.m. CST. Caller left no message on answering machine. I called the number back using caller ID blocking to keep my phone number anonymous; the automated response service proceeded for ~52 seconds without revealing the company name, followed by ~14 seconds of silence at which time the message repeats.
Curious, I pressed the option to speak with a representative and was redirected to "leave a message", likely because my caller ID block doesn't reveal my phone number, which is what they want...so they can sell it and/or solicit me.
A company/caller who intentionally omits their name, proves they have a reason to hide who they are.
Said Texas Coalition on CID. But this number (and many more of their ilk these days) have a nifty trick where they ring your number once and stop. Then ring it again twice and stop. And then they ring immediately again to try to grab the frustrated person who's been running back & forth to their phone & will pick up quickly without checking the CID in sheer exasperation to catch whoever because they don't want to risk losing whoever is having so many problems trying to get through in case the call *is* legit, I guess. Sneaky psychology at work there.
But since so many of these boiler room operations seem to be using that technique now, we don't have to check our CIDs, it actually works for me as a handy remote giveaway that a telescammer is on the other end and I don't have to look up from what I'm doing because nobody I know *other* than scammers does a start & stop ring routine like that.
Thanks again to all who have related that for us in TX it is probably one of those shady Patrolmen's Benevolent fund appeals where none of the money ever ends up in the hands of the cops. Never ceases to amaze me how on some of these threads (not this one...yet) there will be people defending this cavalierly deliberate harassment of other people by these sketchy outfits who prey on people's good natures.