<p>For the last several weeks we have been receiving phone calls from various numbers and various area codes in TX, usually in the middle of the night. There is a recording of a person talking about not putting him on speaker phone such that he can run a voice separator. At the end of all that recording something plays in a typical phone recording voice about the embassy being closed. Anyone else had these? I would love to get them to stop calling me in the middle of the night, especially since they always call twice.</p>
<p>^^
Do youhave the ability to forward your number to a service such as Google Voice? You might want to do this in the evening, let the garbage go to the voicemail, and then revert in the morning to your usual service for regular use. </p>
<p>Is this on a landline or cell phone? You can block specific numbers on a cell phone. It will still allow them to leave a message but you won’t hear the ringing.</p>
<p>It’s on a VOIP phone, so technically land line. Oh, another weird thing, I call the numbers back when I get up in the morning and leave a message if I can, one time a guy called back and said he had never called me and did not recognize my number, so it may be someone spoofing the numbers, but I cannot figure out why</p>
<p>Did you put the number itself into google? See 1) who it is and 2) if other people are also getting the same annoying calls?</p>
<p>I’m getting weird spam recorded calls from the Dominican Republic or at least they’re spoofing that # and no one leaves a message–we didn’t pick up after the first call (which we did Try to answer by accident). Will call our phone company and ask them to block. </p>
<p>It is our corded landline from our utility company. There are reports of others complaining about calls from this number with callers saying the computer needs to be repaired, etc. </p>
<p>YIPPEE! Was able to get the phone company to block the calls from the Dominican Republic. They said that a LOT of customers have called in to complain and ask that the number be blocked. I wonder how they got the phone numbers?</p>
<p>I have googled the numbers, usually nothing of interest. It’s odd, someone somewhere is spoofing TX numbers, but I don’t know why they are calling, there seems to be no purpose, other than driving me batty!</p>
<p>No, I was wondering how OUR numbers got on their radar so they started calling all us innocent folks that just want to be left alone. There are a LOT of folks online complaining about the DR number I had blocked. If it is a local number, I can block it myself. If it is a long distance number, only the phone company can block it for us.</p>
<p>Since I signed up with NoMoRobo – which someone on here recommended – the number of annoyance calls we get has gone way down.</p>
<p>Go to NoMoRobo.com and sign up.</p>
<p>^^^ Thanks for the recommendation! I just signed up.</p>
somemom: I found your post because I was doing my own research about these weird calls! I work at a photography studio in central Virginia. We’ve been receiving this same recorded message for at least 8 months! Our VOIP is setup to send me an email every time we receive a VM, so I saved them and had close to 50 at the end of 2014! Not counting all the times that I answered it.
I listened to it for 6 minutes the other day… I don’t remember a message about the embassy being closed, but the first part was definitely the same. With the guy saying “Don’t put me on speaker phone” something about him just needing to hear the other guy say something… then that convo ends. After that, it says “your call has been disconnected… please hang up…” or something like that. Then this woman comes on with “HOLA?? HOLA??” I thought she was talking to me for a second, but she was on a call with someone else. I couldn’t hear the other party, but I could hear her entire conversation. I don’t know Spanish well enough to translate, but it seemed just like a normal conversation, not a telemarketer call or anything.
The phone numbers we see are from all over the place. Like literally the numbers seem completely random. I haven’t noticed any pattern in the area codes but none of them seem local to Virginia.
Do you have Nextiva for your VOIP? That may be the common factor.
I knew I couldn’t be the only person receiving this weird message! Not that this solves anything, but at least you know you’re not alone either!
Why is it that these sorts of calls always made to landlines? I never get these calls on my cell.
Darn. I tried to sign up to nomorobo, but A T & T is not one of the participating networks. 
My ‘landline’ is Vonage and that is the number to which the calls come, but it simul-rings my cell phone so I get to hear it wherever I am. The guy has moved on from TX, now we get NY and DC and others, too. Around Christmas time I got a few VMs from the same voice (or at least the very same accent and vocal pattern) telling me the IRS has a warrant for my arrest. So, maybe it is part of that system trying to suss out the proper phone number imitations?
I do think I have had at least one or two calls where the HOLA HOLA happens, I wonder if that is live or recorded?
Glad to hear I am not the only one. I am also incredibly grateful they are no longer coming in the middle of the night.
I am getting a lot of calls lately from unrecognizable numbers. I just don’t bother to pick up and they never leave a voice message. Yesterday I got one from this number - 123-456-7890.
^^^I’m guessing that is a telemarketer who has figured out a way to disguise his phone number so that your caller ID can’t see the real one.
People really do suck sometimes.
^Yes they do.
Who is so stupid that they would think the IRS has a warrant out for your arrest, if you haven’t heard boo from the IRS in the first place?
My neighbor got the IRS arrest warrant calls last summer & if you Google it, you can see it is a scam that is often getting to people who are ESL. Those messages came showing a DC phone number. I feel like the other calls might be the same people practicing spoofing alternate numbers or something silly and annoying like that.