Did you get a call from 416-555-7777? Read the posts below to find out details about this number.
Also report unwanted calls to help identify who is using this phone number.
RB
6 Aug 2007
I picked up the phone on the third call today and and than a woman starting speaking how this call was from Americas everywhere. I interrupted and asked for her name & company. I told her I was on the do not call list so I was going to report them. She than said "on no" and hung up on me without giving any information.
9I GOT A CALL FROM THIS NUMBER TODAY. THE GUY SAYS SOMEONE CLAIMS TO OWN MY HOME. I ASKED HIM WHAT MY PHSYCAIL ADDY WAS HE DIDNT KNOW. THIS IS A SCAM THEY R TRING TO GET PRESONAL INFO FROM U AND RUN IT. DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFO.
Yes, this call is coming from Toronto, Canada. Area code 416 is a Toronto number. I wonder what the heck cops are doing there! Chilling out I guess. The guy called and said he would settle my credit card debt?? I blasted him and told him I would call the cops on him. He said "do it", "just do it" and hung up.DO not divulge any information to these scum bags.
Anyways you should record the following on your voice mail! It works against actual telemarketers, and scammers, but not autodialers, and bots.
Telemarketer: Hello? Voice mail: Hello? Telemarketer: Your bank account has been suspended and... Voice mail: Sir, it appears you've called the Canadian federal police. You're now speaking with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, do not brother to cut the line, we're tracing the call. You're calling a homicide scene. Telemarketer: I'm sorry, I really must... Voice mail: [In to the distance] hey, det-const.Redmond can you process this call? I just need you to track the physical location of this call. Run it through the list of known spoofers, and phone companies. We have a possible murder link. Voice mail: Please stay on the line we need to talk with you
and you use your imagination from that. I put it on my answering machine and I laughed like crazy as the telemarketer got all worried!
I have recieved a call from this number and tried to call it back and it said not in service, but there was a guy breathing on it when they called, im kind of freaked out!
Calls from any number with the prefix of 555 are scams. No telephone company uses this prefix. If you will recall this is the prefix always used in the movies when a phone number is given.
What the people are looking for is (1) a live phone number (they sell these for telemarketing) or (2) they will try to scam personal info which they hope to use to get more info on you.
Anytime you get a call from a number with the prefix of 555 don't answer.
Bob: a local collection agency uses 555 numbers to defeat Call Blocker. But this ploy fails in the end, since I know who's calling and refuse to answer.
Actually, Snopes.com says that "these days the 555 prefix is used for real numbers, but the 555-0100 to 555-0199 range is still reserved for the use of Hollywood productions".
I recieved a call fromm this number today. They were very hard to understand. From the best I could understand they said they were from the government and could fulfill my "Do not call" request. I was to hang up and wait for a call to get a 5 digit phone number. Then I was to wait for them to call me back and tell them the number. But when the second call came it said it had to do with Craigslist, here's the number, and not to give to anyone if I was not trying to open a new Craigslist account. Boy, when the hard to understand(from her accent) called back she was very persistant and said since I recieved the number I was forced to give it to her so she can issue it to someone else. I told her my government does not make house phone calls and would not talk to me in this manner, so to go scam someone else., Sorry "someone else."
This one is very annoying, if you don't pick up the phone, it is just keep calling you until you shut off the phone. I really want to know who's number it is!!!
I saw this number on my caller ID this morning! exact same! 416-555-7777! It is from Toronto, Ontario. I have lived in Toronto before and area code 416 is from Toronto. I ended up calling a friend at his office and wondered if he had called from his company #! Now I see it is a scam! Good I did not answer that call this morning!
Call came in very early in the morning, then man left a message in a foreign launguage I cannot understand, then it beeped a few times and hung up. Very sketchy! I do know it was from ON.
I recieved a call from this number today saying that 4000 homes in my area were infected with some kind of bacterial whatever and that I had to remove all of the "garbage" on my lawn and front stoop as well as have all my carpets cleaned. He sounded very foreign and everytime I said "pardon me?" he would repeat his entire message again.
They keep calling for someone who does not live here. I keep telling them that that person does not live here and they keep saying they will investigate. I told them to stop calling and they call every day. I even plugged my fax and let is answer, but it's a computer dialing so It's not working.