949-565-0499

Don't answer! I received a call from someone identifying himself as Jeff Buckley from Google. He left a message on my voicemail saying he needed to verify my Google Places listing and there were a few issues that needed to be resolved before it could be published. It sounded suspicious but I had recently submitted a Google Places listing and had not yet received confirmation, so I didn't want to ignore it without verifying. I contacted Google and they could not find a person by that name and said Google will never call unless you ask them to, so this must be a scammer. I'm not sure what kind of scam this person is trying to pull, but stay away!

I've got a cold so I let the incoming call go through the answering machine and heard probably the same recorded message.  Sounded sketchy because he has something regarding are listen that needs "my urgent attention".  Right.

Also, as R stated, the companies won't use a phone to contact you unless you asked them to.

Say no to drugs and the fraudsters who do 'em.

Got the same call.  My SEO guy told me to ask them to give me some information from my Google Account to prove they are for real (which of course if they are calling from Google about my Google Account,  they would have,  right?).  But when I clicked to be connected to a real person,  it went to a voice mail asking me to leave my name and number.
Now this is a trick to get around the National Do Not Call List that my number is listed on..

They also said something else that I find incredible.  It said if I did not verify my Google Places it MAY OR MAY NOT remove my Google Places account.  This to me sounds like they want me to believe I could lose my Google Places page without actually saying I will lose my Google Places page.

Two little tricks to get around ethical issues that leads me to believe they are not to be trusted.  Thanks to everyone who posted here to help others avoid scammers and thieves!

recevied a call from 949-565-0499 when i answered it nobody was on the other end of line. it seems like a pain in but to me. please catch them..

Got a call today, let it go to vm as I dont get unknown calls on my line. When I listen to the VM i knew it was just low life scum scam. If you pieces of sh*t are reading this I say fu*k you. The guy on the vm sounded like a fat ba*tard from NYC.

got the same call...all I want to say is F***K U stop calling my #

Same exact experience. "Jeff Buckley from Google" Not actually Google.

Kevin Doyle from google needed to verify my google info very rude and cocky.

The call from this number started as a robo-call, then a guy cleared his throat very loudly, then clicked over to an "Operator"  to verify my Google+ info. They're not really with google, just trying to get you to pay them to make changes to your web site.

Robo call did not answer, but left some message looking for owner. None at this location...

these are idiots harassing businesses and individual. Should be banned and  punished.  ban this number

When they first called me, they coughed on the phone and continued to cough and said "Hi, can you hear me ok"
so I hung up
I called back and coughed in the phone and hung up
they called me back, I didn't answer
Then I called from a blocked number and started sneezing in the phone
I typically do not let this [***] bother me, I however am sick of the calls (this isn't the first I've received) and I wanted to prove a point.  These people will scam you if you let them!!! PLEASE BEWARE!!!!

how RUDE!!!!! AND..... THEY ARE TRYING TO SCAM YOU!!!!! SHAME ON SOME PEOPLE - How about this?? GO GET A J.O.B AND MAKE AN HONEST LIVING!!!!!

I don't have any idea what point you think you proved. To me, what you proved is that you were foolish enough to call them back from your own phone. Now they have your number as "live" and will happily use it until they get tired of it - they, not you - and then sell it to other scammers.

Another thing, it's been seen many times in this forum that calling back and harassing the scammer pretty much releases their Kraken: you'll get revenge calls until you go insane.

Judging from the tenor of your post, they've already got a head start on doing that.

I'm so glad I read this thread. I received a half voice message from this number at work and because it wasn't complete and it sounded sketchy, I looked the number up and ended up on this page. Thanks for the heads up, everybody! It's good to know people are watching out for each other like this... :)

Empty line. Noone on the other line.

Jeff Buckley is still out. I just got his recorded message that my google listings need serious attention and I should call this number back immediately. Yeah, right.

Thank you for the post, I got the exact phone call today with the same name etc.