<p>Mine all show up “unidentified caller” Unfortunately my MIL <em>refuses</em> to allow her number to show up, so “Unidentified caller” is often her. This has been going on for 15 years… she just doesn’t understand why it p***es me off to have to wade through junk calls on the answering machine instead of blocking unknown numbers.<br>
Oh, wait… thanks to all of you, I now know that this is a “dangerous” scam to phish info and I “need” to block all unknown callers.<br>
Brilliant. You made my day.</p>
<p>Our land line is on the Do Not Call list but we have been getting both the car warranty and the Credit Card calls once a week for months! How do the get away with this?</p>
<p>Susantm, “the last chance to get a better rate on your credit card.” Oddly enough, it never says which credit card." - that’s the one I’ve gotten several days now. Like you, I never press 1 or anything other than the disconnect button.</p>
<p>well rats, I just spent a lot of time online and it seems there isn’t a free way to block unidentified caller calls because I don’t want to block all of them…some might be from systems (kids travelling) outside the ability of AT&T to tell (yeah, and I beleive that… they’re billing someone, so they know who placed every call…)
So I’m back to the delete button. Sigh.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten a couple of these calls on my cell phone very recently. I try to be very careful who knows my cell phone number and don’t give it out freely (use the land line). The calls I’ve gotten have come from a 702 area code, which is Las Vegas. If you google the number calling you with these annoying offers, you’ll find out just how many other people are as equally annoyed! The phone company who “distributes” these numbers has not been helpful as I recall reading, but I chose not to waste additional time on it.</p>
<p>I personally don’t know anyone from Las Vegas, so have decided I will just refuse any future calls from this area code. And also added my cell phone to the do not call list.</p>
<p>these calls too. Generally, the number of telemarketing calls has increased recently. I was wondering if it was related to the crashing economy.</p>
<p>I got the car warranty one on my cell phone. I don’t even own a car! Never have! A bunch of kids in my grade have said they got these too. Very annoying.</p>
<p>Twice today! And my son who doesn’t own a car gets them too. It’s always my “second notice”.</p>
<p>Funny you should mention this! </p>
<p>We just went to our cabin on the weekend where we’ve not been in 3 months. It’s in Canada no less. And I check the answering machine messages (we really don’t get calls there but I see there are calls). I hit the play button and it’s message after message after message after message all from this same friggin company about our expired warranty.</p>
<p>“Warning, this is your last notification…”</p>
<p>I only wish. Liars!</p>
<p>I should add that the ONLY other telemarketing call we get to this cabin number in Canada is about something to do with Macys (a store we don’t have up here). They started the week we got the number so no idea why or how. I have to assume though that it’s from the same source.</p>
<p>This is beyond telemarketing. This is tele-spam. Big time.</p>
<p>Get them all the time. With caller ID we know spam calls when we see them – and just answer and click – don’t talk.</p>
<p>We get this on one our office phone lines daily…sometimes multiple times in one day. We always know when that line lights up that it is either a wrong number or a telemarketer. It is a jumper line for when our call volume is heavy during the summer months. I think the next time I get it, I won’t hang up and see who comes on the line. Maybe I can get our number removed…</p>
<p>Actually , this reminded me of another recent incident regarding my business Verizon phone bill…we have several phone numbers in various locations. Some were set up for credit card terminals at locations that use them only a few months out of the year…
We usually have our bookeeper taking care of the bills for the company.
Yesterday, I noticed an extra charge on a couple of our phone bills from a company called OAN…called verizon and told them that we did not authorize any outside companies to provide an service.
They told me to call the company directly…I was told that an employee authorized them to become our website hosting representative…
Well, since one of the phone lines is only for a credit card terminal ( not even a phone there ) I find this a tad dishonest. I got it removed from the bills and got credited, but I have to wonder how many people and businesses don’t notice this on their bills. What a scam…don’t understand how Verizon doesn’t look out for their customers better</p>
<p>I get this call over and over…landline, woman’s voice.</p>
<p>I just watched one of those investigative news segments on our local news. They spotlighted a company called VP marketing (also used the name “Saferight Warrantee”) that used the autodialers to people’s cellphones telling people their warrantee was about to expire. If the person pressed “1” they were routed to a human, who pumped them for info on the make/model of their car, the VIN #, etc and would sell them overpriced warrantees with limited if any coverage at limited service repair shops. These calls went to cellphones all over the country (and even to Iraq!), people asking to be put on “do not call” lists were ignored, and called multiple times. One guy in NY who didnt own a car played along and told them he had a modified tank!! LOL! Apparently they have a sister company called “Versadebt” (or maybe "reversadebt… not sure) who got fined in Missouri for violating the “do not call” list. Most of the time they use “spoof” numbers, meaning the # that shows up in your phone isnt a real # or cannot be called back using the phone auto dial back services. Somehow Missouri got their real #s and fined them several hundered thousand dollars. Thank you, Missouri!</p>
<p>Ugh, these calls make me so incredibly frustrated. At my parents’ house, neither of whom own cars, they get these calls sometimes twice a day, despite having told them numerous times to cease calling and having an unlisted number. I also have been getting these calls despite also not owning a car, both with the male and female voice, on my room phone for my dorm and my cell phone, and it’s very frustrating. I’ve tried holding and asking to be removed from the list, but I usually just end up getting hung up on. </p>
<p>I can understand companies trying to make some money selling legitimate products, but I absolutely cannot stand this blatant fraud. It boils my blood.</p>
<p>Anyone feel like filing a class action lawsuit?</p>
<p>A fine of several hundred thousand dollars is way too low. It should have been several hundred million.</p>
<p>I tried once to get my name removed by attempting to talk to a human. They hung up right after I said “I want my number removed…” click. It’s not legitimate. I hope they started doing this to the White House, Congresspeople and the head of the FBI. They’ll get shut down right quick and as they don’t know who they are calling it could well happen.</p>
<p>Galoisien – I’ll join!</p>
<p>We get this about 10 times a month. Just so everyone knows that any call that you get at home or on your cell --just put the number in google and then read a few of the results. Usually, I find that a number of folks have figured out where it is coming from…</p>
<p>^^^ Their term for what to do when someone asks to be taken off the list? “Bang on them” (meaning hang up on the person they’ve already bothered-- double rude). FWIW, they (the camera crew/investigative reporter) did catch the owner of the company (a young guy, looked to be in his late 20s-early 30’s named Jason Eyer (this was public info so I am not disclosing any private info)-- he was pompous and tried to be clever, but just came across like a class A jerk.</p>