This person has called me several times a day for days now. It's always while I'm at work so I have only picked up once and it was something about a settlement. Now I just let it ring. If you try to call it back it is always busy.
These foreigners are phishing for people's personal information. They may have your name (if it was ever in the phone book, for example) and they may act like they know your medical history. They don't. They are trying to hook the gullible and/or the greedy to get them to join their shady class-action lawsuits against big drug and medical device companies. You've seen these commercials on TV, I'm sure, but I don't think these guys are affiliated with those 'legal firms' (at least I hope not).
Tell them nothing. Do not even confirm that they have the right person. Just hang up. Add them to your phone's address book under SCAM. Block the number if your phone has that capability. Last, but not least, report each and every call to www.donotcall.gov.
This forum is to describe what these calls are about and to offer advice. The scammers that are harassing us do not read these posts. In light of this, what do you think of your post now?
Four days ago I got the first phone call from this number, but no one said anything when I answered. I called back and got a busy tone. I got three more phone calls (all very late at night) and finally said, "stop f*ing calling me," and hung up. Ten minutes ago, they called back, and the same foreign man it seems other people are talking about stated my full name (it sounded as though he was in a bar of some sort) and that he worked for a medical company and that I was owed compensation for my birth control pills. When I said I had never been on birth control and that I would have the police track his number, he started telling me he liked me, then that he loved me, then that he wanted to f* me and continued to say that until I said I would have him reported and then deported back to the [***] hole he came from. He then said that he was going to find me and f* me. I am royally creeped out, and very serious about having this investigated.
If you happen to be engaged in another call by these people tell them this:
"I have been in contact with the "U.S Department of Health & Human Services" and due to Federal Regulation you are violating national laws under the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)" and I am contacting them to make a formal complaint against this company." That might do it. They used to call me all the time but havent since I mentioned this.