2024079056

Something to keep in mind about all these continuing bothersome calls for surveys, so called charities and so called charity pickups despite asking them to remove you from their list:

Call centers have sprung up in my town that make use of the survey and the charity loophole around the do not call list; they have been a headache for law enforcement, emergency services, neighboring businesses and residential areas.  When I ask any patrolling officer in town about these call centers, they are quick to state their frustrations about the criminal activity that some of these call centers have brought into the area. Several law enforcement agencies regularly visit some of these call centers looking for warrant arrests etc.  I have heard from sources including from frustrated employees that work for these call centers complaining about the drug activity, vandalism of cars and neighboring businesses, break-ins and theft, drinking while on the job, smoke breaks are actually marijuana breaks, drunk driving, very dangerous driving, tons of tossed out litter of empty liquor containers, trash, food etc.  I’ve even heard that the mangers are also involved in criminal activities and have even preyed on their legitimate employees who are simply trying to eek out a living on horrible wages.  Also the operators are untrained in a very high turn around, poorly managed and dysfunctional work environment.

Also realize this when you call a companies’ customer service line and get horrible service from the call center that’s been hired by the company.  One time while on a call with our bank’s customer service, the operator was so loopy that it required ending the call and calling again to try and get someone else to help, think about that when you call a companies’ customer service and the conversation gets odd, off the wall and obtuse – you may be talking to an operator that’s drunk or on something.  After 6 months of getting a different and wrong answer to our ongoing problem each time we called our bank’s call center, we gave up and closed the account.

With so little police left in our town due to cutbacks, they can’t always respond to vandalism and break-ins when it’s witnessed as they have their plate full responding to the major emergencies, this allows the criminal activity free reign, the neighborhood becomes the hood.  Some insurance companies require proof of private security patrols before they will honor a claim due to vandalism or theft leaving the neighboring businesses off guard and uncovered.  These businesses also have the added cost to hire private security, install security systems/monitoring, upgrade lighting etc.  Then there are the dangers and headaches to the nearby businesses employees such as their cars being vandalized or broken into.  Some businesses simply give in, pickup and move out of town.

One of my neighbors owns a call center and he requires that his operators are bonded, but I guess there’s no laws requiring this – there should be.  Right now in my town it seems like anybody can start up a call center and hire questionable labor for cheap without much regulation.

I my efforts the past several years to try and get something done, I am most struck by the fact that there’s no real help, everyone is more worried about being sued than dealing with the obvious problem - you are on your own while the town is taken over by the crime these call centers bring into the neighborhoods....

I too received a call from this number 2024079056. In reading your posts I am shocked....DO NOT EVER PAY MONEY TO GET MONEY! Be smart people..a lot of a#@$holes around here!

I have been receiv many calls from this number which would report to the proper authorities is a fellow indu which says I win a grand government of the United States so I see I'm not the only one who want to tricking

they said I won 9200 I decided to call after hours to check voicemail cause it seemed too good to be true. I got a voicemail that was personal not government in nature so I decided to google the number and this page is what I got!!!!!!! thank goodness I trusted my gut!!!!!!!!!.. my sympathy goes out to those who were scammed its just horrible the things that people are doing these days.

exactly

I got this number today and she say the same things but my English on the phone not so good I told her I in the cafe and have some police here I will ask them to help then she hang up.

Told me that I was picked to received $9,000 from the Federal government.  My approval # was DD2468 and I was suppose to call 347-573-9347 to get my money Western Unioned to me.

Received a call from phone # 202-407-9056 today, 7/17/2013, from caller = [Unknown], call lasted 3 seconds & no one answered. Then I looked into phone number source & found many items of complaint regarding the number being associated with various persons operating a SCAM.
  If this number calls you, take heed in the following, supposedly presented by the FTC =   "It is illegal for companies doing business in the U.S. by phone to promise you a loan and ask you to pay for it before they deliver."

I am getting everyday calls from this number, I never believed it, and I would love to put them in jail. This upset me!

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I received a phone call a few moments ago from 202-407-9056 and they ended up hanging up on me after I asked this lady what this was regarding and what company. She tells me United States Police Department and hangs up. I tried to call the number back to tell them off, but, you can't call the number back at all. Hmmm. Do they actually think that people are that stupid?

Hello Everyone:
I can not believe people are still falling for this type of crap.  
First clue:  The US government will never volunteer to give you your money back much less free money such as grants... Trust me after 5 years fighting the IRS over a mistake they made, I know this.  
Second clue: Indian accent.  Every single person you speak to.  I am not prejudiced, but a US government office legally can not have 100% of the same race working.  It is against the affirmative action crap that was in affect at least the last time I bothered to check.
Third clue:  They gave my brother's name as the city name I live in?  
Fourth clue:  They asked for information that the government already has available to them through my previous tax returns, & would NEVER ask for over the phone,  bank account, social security , etc...
Fifth clue:  they were giving me a $9,000 grant because I pay my taxes, and live in Arizona as of December of last year.  I moved to Missouri in July of last year, & then to Colombia, South America.
Sixth clue:  Why would you need to pay anything to receive a grant from the government without filling out reams of red tape?
I humored them to see what all they would try.  I can not afford to waste my money on stuff like this, and I am not falling for scams if I can avoid it.  I hope this helps you all avoid the same thing.

I received a call today.  It was hard to understand the person, and I was shopping for groceries, but I knew that a $9000 grant from the government that I didn't have to pay back was too good to be true.  I said I was not interested, and hung up.

A guy called with a heavy accent stating I qualify for a US Government grant for $9,000 since I paid my taxes on time and bills on time with no criminal record. Then he said I can have money put in bank account, on my credit cards, or cash. When I said cash he wanted me to go to a Western Union. I told him I think this is a scam and they should email me or send a check in the mail if not a scam. I gave him my mailing address to send the check, then when I hung up I called the number back and it said "not a working number". All I gave was my address so hopefully they can't do anything with that. Should have followed my instinct and hung up...this is apparently a scam.

It was a foreign woman who called to say that my government has been trying to get in touch with me because they picked 700 people to receive $9000 to do just good things with and I was one of those people, And if I wanted the money by Cash, Visa or MasterCard. I replied you can send me a visa card. She then replied no no I explain- you have Visa card right? you give us the number when I pass you over to our count supervisor and we put it on your card. I then told her that I was not going to give her any of my credit card information. And then replied why don't you just put it into my checking account. And then continued to tell her - you are the government, you send me a check every month, so you have my account information already So just put it in there. She then replied let me explain, we tried a few months ago to make such deposit and he came back as an error and because of that we no need to do either Visa MasterCard or cash and I said okay I'll take the cash you can wire me the money! no we give cash by your checking account I then said I thought you had an error that way! and then I hung up.

Confirmation FCC Submission Confirmation: 1088B  
Acknowledgement of Submission from CATHY on 07/25/2013, reference number 13-T01239364.

I received a phone call from this number all week. the man has a bad accent,can understand what is saying . I had to ask him twice who he would like to speak to so he hung.  Lol wow

Just got a call from this number and the guy said he wanted to [***] me.  Who are these people??????

I do not answer numbers I dont know I look them up 1st , I m glad I do for reasons like this . You can google block phone number .gov you really want to find a site that has .gov to make sure your not giving your number to more scams , and some phones have a block numb. built in but you can only bock so many.
If I was you do not answer any number you do not know if it important they will leave a message and only if you know who left the message do you call back.

I have receved a unknown got call from 202-407-9056 from columbia washington i got this call at 11:00 am. I think its a scam it was about a grant. some one is trying t get money off of us. Please have them stoped.