225-226-5414

called and did not leave a VM.  Probably scammer or spammer.  I blocked number

Just had the same thing happen to me.  Same number.  No VM.

Tired of these calls.  No message left.

Number called and said they were the National Verizon payment center and to enter your account number and password. Obvioisly phiahing scam

Most interesting. Over the last few days I have been "bombed" with calls from 504, and it looks like 225 is warming up, too. This uptick in calls from Louisiana area codes has to indicate something. Are the scam/spam/phishing creeps using spoofed numbers from Louisiana "just for a change"? Who knows?

I answered.  Caller said he was from "customer service."  I asked, "What company?"  He danced around without answering.  I hung up.

I answered....no one answered me.  I hung up.

same here, answered the phone and a dead line.

definitely a spoofed number

Scam saying you won a trip to the Bahama's.

I got the same call and then they somehow called me using my number but I did not talk to anyone.   pls do something about thee people

Yep.....here we go again.  I just spent HOURS yesterday putting in numbers that are calling and you cannot call back.  VERIZON WIRELESS!  Seems THEY could look into these numbers and if they are getting a "number has been changed"....."number is disconnected", that they would do something about it.  Does no good to change your number at all!What happened to days of peace with a regular land line only.  We have created our own misery with having to be in constant contact with everyone and everything....... I still say that some of these numbers are used by the girlfriend/boyfriend trying to get in touch with their married girlfriend/boyfriend, and are showing up as the cheaters phone number.  It can be done!  Easily.

Take a little time from your rant to read through the other posts in this forum. You might get a better idea of what's actually happening.

You are right about creating our own misery: our modern technology gives criminals from overseas the ability to dial thousands of numbers an hour, automatically, and registering as "live" any number where a human picks up and says "Hello." Similarly, whenever someone calls back one of these numbers that actually goes through, that person's number is registered as valid and ripe for scamming.

When you call back (which you should never do anyway) and get a dead line, it's because the fake phone number (and sometimes the fake company name, such as VERIZON) that appears on your caller ID has no basis in reality: It's fake.

There is no way for a company like Verizon to know which fake phone numbers the scammers will select to show up on a caller ID screen.

These crooks operating from India, Pakistan and elsewhere, are beyond the reach of US law and the Do Not Call Registry.

Sunday morning and I getting a phone call right before sunday school @ 9:45 AM.  Didn't recognize the number so I didn't pick it up. It shows to be a baton rouge cell phone number, with a various collection scam from student loan troubles to bounced check. Sometimes they claim that they are "BSI" this seems to be a convient name since there are about a half dozen legitimate companies in the are which have this in their company name.

I didn't answer, but they started to leave a recorded message about winning an all expense paid trip to the Bahamas. I cut it off before it could finish.

I just won a trip to the Bahamas!!! Yeah right....

SCAM!!!! Blocking this number.

Unlabeled call to my cell phone stating I won a trip to the Bahamas.

"Customer Service" - i asked what customer service and then the fellow launched (if it wasn't a recording, i didn't stay on to find out because it was obviously a scam) into how i'd stayed at a resort and something about a bonus trip, etc. Hung up and blocked.

The weird part is it's from my own area code, otherwise i wouldn't have answered it.

Number was from my own area code so I answered. It was just another scammer so I hung up the phone & blocked the number on my cell.

Wanted to help me with my banking problems.
I hung up.

Continues to call all day, everyday. Rings off the hook and if you answer, immediately goes to dial tone.