Some of you might recall my post about the phone spammers who call incessantly with the dire warning that your car warranty is about to expire. Their tactic is to deposit a recorded announcement in your voicemail or blast you when you pick up the phone. Each time they call from a different number and they don't identify the name of their company, nor can you successfully get off their calling list.
Similarly, there's a scam that uses the same tactics for an alleged carpet cleaning company. I don't know their name, and they probably don't have a name, because I doubt they're actually cleaning carpets, and judging from their various phone numbers from different U.S. states and outlying areas, it would be highly inconvenient for anyone to use their services, because they're not local.
Most recently, I received a recorded carpet-cleaning phone blast from "Heather" using this telephone number: (208) 656-4565. This corresponds to a land line in Idaho Falls. Yes, in Idaho. However, these people have called me from all kinds of numbers, including some that begin with "0," which are either out of the country or from a Skype number of some kind.
I've never quite figured out what they're after...obviously it must be money of some sort. They're clearly not looking for customers who want their carpets cleaned, or who are concerned about their vehicle car warranty expiring (I'm guessing these are the same people). They want money, or credit card numbers, or your ID, or something else.
Has anyone actually talked to a human at these so-called carpet cleaners?
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I hate those carpet robots! I've tried hitting the 1 or the 0 or whatever it is, so I could tell teh people about how I'm reporting them yet again to donotcall.gov. But it just disconnects. Seems dumb.
If you go to a website like whocallsme.com, you'll see numerous posters who've gotten calls from this number and even returned the calls to find out it's not a real number or not in service. The calls coming from this number were about carpet cleaning, fake job interviews, messages in Spanish, and more. See here: http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/2086564565
Many of the recipients are filing with DoNotCall.gov, which apparently does no good.
They're using spoofed numbers and their ultimate game is unclear. Doesn't seem like anyone's investigating them, but they must be snookering some people successfully, no?
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