I've received several calls from this telephone number. It does say it's the Texas A & M 12th Man Foundation, but I highly doubt it. Never leaves a message.
I think it is the 12th man Foundation hitting people up for donations. I received calls from this number at different times of day, once a day, only on business days, for 3 weeks straight. I never answered and they never left a message, but people asking for money never do. The calls finally stopped for a few weeks, but it appears they started again today. Ugh!!'
979-846-8892 costs me $1 every time they call my cell #, which is on a DO NOT CALL list. They do not leave a message, and when I answer, it's just noisy background people sounds—no one speaks! Weird way to sell something... especially something from TEXAS when I'm in California?! Idiots.
First, what kind of phone service do you have that costs you $1 per received call from spammers? Whatever it is, please tell us all so we can avoid it, ourselves!
Second, the area code on you caller ID (and caller name, too) can easily be spoofed, and no longer has any real correspondence to any particular part of the country, anyway. It might not even be in the country you think it is even if it's NOT spoofed. See: "Area Codes, Now Divorced from their Areas," by Ian Urbina, The New York Times, October 1, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/nyregion/01code.html?_r=0
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You should know that if you call BACK, however, you will be charged the regular geographic rates (plus any other fees, which may include per minute costs of calling a cell phone and/or exhorbitant pay per call rates like the old "900" sex lines charged.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how many scammer evade the do not call rules. They hide behind spoofed numbers or are hiding in places, perhaps overseas, that have nothing to do with the apparent, old fashioned location of their phone number.