202-455-8888

Just don't pay attention to it. The best thing you can do is block that number and they'll call you with another number. Suppose you get a call saying Google on the caller ID, you should block that number. The second call will show up as something else. That should help people know that the callers are scammers who spoof several numbers. Just cause the caller ID says Google doesn't mean, it is Google that called you. Spoofing is done by all kinds of criminals, especially the parasites that work for Rachel.

Received call on cell phone in 615 area code on 12/11/2012 at 8:14 am.  No message.  I did not answer.  I am in Nashville.

Hold on here - I DID receive a Google call for validation code yesterday at that time.  So, it was GOOGLE VALIDATING MY PHONE, sorry.

I just got a call from whoever this is. I do not have unlimited calling, as I call back to see who called when I do not recognize a phone number. I tried calling the (202)455-8888, number back.The number did not accept calls back. It happens a lot. I wonder if there is a way to block unwanted calls. I check my messages later now that I have a land line. Thank You ! ! !

BeSafe doesn't seem to understand how two-factor authentication works.

There's a security feature available through Google, as well as several other sites, where you can attach a device to your account.  When you attempt to login to your email with this feature turned on, the email screen will ask for a number, while at the same time, Google will send you a text with the number.  If the text doesn't work, a robot voice will call the number and read it.  The automated system will not ask you for any information.  This means that hackers will need not just your email password, but also your phone, in order to get into your account.

This number is one of many used by the robot to deliver these access codes.  It IS actually Google, and they can't email you through your account to do this, because the only reason they send the code is so you can get into your account.

Hey folks...In my case, this was a legitimate call. I established Google Call on my Nexus 7 tablet in order to use it as a secondary work number. The number calls your primary in order to verify identity.

But I do agree with several other posts regarding spammers using technology to show this number when they are calling. If they had the calling phone/computer stuck up their rear for doing this crapp, maybe they would STOP THE HARASSING LAME CALLS!!

hello
google called you
they do that when they want to verify a new email address.
So, whats your new email.
Like to dance ? I do.

Like to dance around the truth?

I place and Ad on Craigslist Sacramento,CA Car For Sale it started with a text from 707.90197765 Boonville, CA and Calls from 202.455.888 District Of Columbia and ask to press 23 before we can talk "Scam"

At 12:30 in the morning, (202) 455-8888 gave me a call.  Since I was unfamiliar with the phone number, I decided to have the person leave a message on the recorder.  Person hung up as soon as the recorder came on.  The recorder is wonderful....it immediately gets rid of many unwanted phone calls.

some one called from this number that I was talking to on yahoo and I don't want anything to do with this service or anything to do with that person any more.

The unsolicited callI I received from this number had the hallmarks of a fraudulent identity-theft scheme.
* It came out of the blue, unsolicited,
* asking me to log on to something,
* using official-sounding language that didn't quite add up.
Within minutes, I received three texts offering three separate "Google Verification Codes," -- likewise with hallmarks of fraud.
** The idea that an actual Google representative would be making such calls and texts is laughable.

Received call with digitalised numbers at 7:20 am.  Also received a text.  I did not request anything of Google.  Did not respond.  Tele number matches a cell phone in District of Columbia.

I forgot my password for my account and I asked mom to giveme the verification code cause it was link to the account and I type in the code and I keep getting called any help?

Good gosh, how would you like to receive several unsolicited calls in the wee hours of the AM when you have an important meeting in a few hours??

Good gosh, how would you like to receive several unsolicited calls in the wee hours of the AM when you have an important meeting in a few hours??

Got a call from 202-455-8888.  When I picked up, a recording gave me a code.  When I called back that phone number a recording said:  IT COULD NOT COMPLETE YOUR CALL, PLEASE TRY AGAIN.

We got this call yesterday from Harry Smith and he wanted me to press 23

Area code 202 may be for Washington, D. C., but it is my experience that spammers, scammers, and phishers lurk there an awful lot. So do political phone calls in which I have no interest. So, it is my policy not to answer any phone calls from area code 202.

Google Voice (GV) is a service that provides a regular telephone number for others to call.  Calls to the GV number are forwarded to other numbers of your own choosing, so that someone can call your GV number and ring all of your telephones (or any subset of them selected by you) at the same time.  Thus, if you have (1) a cell phone, (2) a landline phone, and (3) a work phone, someone could call your GV number and all three of your numbers would ring at once.  Whichever phone is picked up first gets connected to the caller of the GV number.

There are other very useful features of GV, but the one of relevance here is that it confirms that the numbers you select to ring when someone calls your GV number are actually numbers under your control.  Thus, GV uses a number such as this to call you whenever you add a number to the call forwarding list.  A code appears on your computer screen and a robocall is immediately dispatched to the new phone number you added.  You then have to punch the displayed code on your phone keypad after you pick up the phone.  If you didn't do this, someone with GV could accidentally (or deliberately) add you to the call forwarding list and you would get a lot of very strange calls.

Also, if you have a number on your list to which calls have not been forwarded for a long time, GV will send you a reminder that you have to reconfirm that number.  Otherwise, since GV is free, someone could just abandon a GV account and, if the number on the call forwarding list was reassigned to you at some point, some or all of the calls received at the abandoned GV account would be forwarded to you and there would be no way to stop that from happening.

From the description of some of the unwanted calls here, it appears that the numbers on the call forwarding numbers that people add to GV are sometimes mistyped.  If so, it may be bothersome, but I wouldn't worry too much about it.  People have been dialing wrong numbers ever since the first rotary dial phones became available.  I'm sure everyone here has committed this sin at one time or another, themselves.