800-466-4411

Some idiot calls up 800-446-4411, masking himself under a Google number claiming to be looking for #32 gage stranded wire, so he can sew it into his jacket to stay warm. The guy was a moron from the get-go, and when I challenged him in the least, the jerk hung up. Wait until sleaze marketing gets a whiff of this number.

Callers should be aware that Google will now cloak and mask under this 800#, so be prepared for stupid people at the other end of the phone. This happened at 5:56 PM, C.S.T., but I finally got to logging it now.

-AL

I got a call from the 8004664411 as well.  They asked for a product I sell.  I said I have it.  Made no sense.  Customers don't call from 800 numbers.

As Al points out in the first message in this thread, Google offers this tollfree number so you can make calls to business numbers for free, on Google's dime--you call 800-446-4411, and when it answers, you tell it the name of the business you want to reach (there are a lot of options, like just asking for a type of business, like pizza delivery), and it dials the number for you. It's explained at www.google.com/goog411.  You can look at it as either another way to make us feel warm and fuzzy about Google, paving their way to take over the planet, or as a genuinely useful (but abusable) thing.  I don't know if it can be tricked into connecting to any number, not just businesses.

The unfortunate part is that the company or person who receives the call will see it displayed on their caller ID, just as that very number (800-446-4411), so the service also allows callers to mask what number they're calling from.  As Al says, "Wait until sleaze marketing gets a whiff of this number."  And as RB found, sleaze in general has already gotten a whiff of this number's cloaking possibilities.  And to piercingvision, who says "Customers don't call from 800 numbers"--well, they did now.

Al's story about someone wanting to sew wire into his jacket to stay warm, is interesting.  Maybe he was going to wire it up to a power source and have an electric blanket jacket?  If there was no power source planned, THAT's what would have made it weird.

Got a call from 800-466-4411 the dude stut stut stuttered when he called asking about projectors. Didn't know anything about projectors or rear projection TV's.
Hung up on me

I have gotten anywhere from 50 to 60 calls today from this 1-800-466-4411 number, sometime with very abusive language.  I have even gotten calls at 1 or 2 am.  I have reported this to the PD and may have to actually change my phone number.   If this is what google is responsible for, people actually have an 800 number to harrass, this is a bad mark for google, and I actually am surprised that google is promoting this.

B

can a number call through someone else's cell? I apparently had some"one" use my cellphone wile it was still in my pocket to call this number. It was at 1:24 June 22, 2008; in WA. Is there any way that the number could have called itself?