516-203-7559

Just another low life scam.
Block these calls

You really think the DNC list will prosecute?

They called my cell phone, which is on the National Do Not Call list.. Ignored it. Blocked the number.

Keep getting calls from this number.

Who is downvoting all of these responses?

Let them die.

Got a call, no message. CID says they're from Garden City.

The DNC list can't "prosecute". Breaking the Do Not Call law is a civil offense, not criminal, so there's no "prosecution". They can file a law suit and do so several times a year. But with the limited staff assigned to DNC violations (I've heard it's about 30 people) and the difficulty of tracing VOIP phone calls (one case took about a year, over two dozen subpoenas and over $100,000 to pursue), only the biggest offenders will ever get nailed.

They are at it again.

Called today at 10:15 AM. Left no message. I don't know anyone from Garden City, NY. Blocked. Previously, I was getting a flurry of no caller id calls (2 today and 3 yesterday). Of course I don't answer. I'm just going to reject them everytime on my iOS.

Get strange numbers with just a state showing on the caller ID, so I don't answer.  Sometimes, I get Caller ID from God-Knows-Where, that are missing some numbers--like: 45-23173 ??  What backwards part of East Bumfok is THIS person calling from?  I have starting using various Call Screening Aps that are ~87% effective at blocking such nuisance calls.  Once in a while, numbers like the one above squeeze through the blocking aps.  I think eventually, the more calls these yahoos make, the more exclusive the blocking aps will become.

Yours is a common idea, posted in many threads, but nobody ever actually cites any real world fact to back up their belief that pressing any number (Or merely answering the phone.) provides callers with any useful information. I have actually spent time online, trying to find someone who will sell me a list of numbers of people who pressed a button TO OPT OUT AND STOP BEING CALLED. Of course, I've been unsuccessful. So would any idiot who goes into business, using a list of people who already told someone they don't want to be bothered!!! That's the stupidest business model I can think of.

"Active number?" They know it's an active number if one of two things happens, or a third thing fails to happen:
1) The phone rings and rings and rings without any answer, at all. OR, if it rings long enough, until a phone company message tells them something (Maybe "The person you are calling cannot be reached at this time."), and terminates the call.
2) A person or answering machine picks up.
3) The "fails to happen" thing I mentioned is a recording from the phone company saying it is NOT an "active number."

The fundamental problem with this popular idea is that nobody in the actual business of making telephone calls for a living really cares a whole lot, whether a number is "active" or not. If they find out a number is not active, they will probably delete it from their system, so as not to waste a few seconds calling it again, some time. But, that information is not valuable enough for them to buy a list of non-active numbers OR a list which can only be described as "active" numbers.

The reality is that they typically set their equipment to disconnect after four or five rings -- and that "Number Not In Service" recordings kick in after only one or two rings. Oh, and another reality is that the lists which actually are sold with valuable demographic information all carry disclaimers. So many people change their phone numbers, and it happens so often, that no list is ever guaranteed to be 100% accurate. So, a list containing no information other than a number's status begins to become contaminated with inactive numbers, overnight. It would be grossly counterproductive to call the same number, day after day, just to see if it is still active.

You're actually doing yourself a favor if you press a number to be removed from their calling list (Or, more technically, be put on their internal do not call list.) or if you talk to someone to make the request. They're in business. Even if their business is fraud, it serves them no purpose to keep calling a number, after someone has already said they don't want to be bothered.

Think about it. If you don't want whatever they are selling, is it even remotely possible that, if they call enough times, you will suddenly decide to buy? How many calls will it take? 3? 10? 100? I've not done a survey, but from what I've seen posted here for more than nine years, I'm pretty sure not too many people would eventually pick up the phone and say, "Okay. Here's my credit card number. I'll take whatever you're selling."

On the other hand, what do you do if you call a friend and there is no answer? Don't you call again? And, again? Real world people sometimes do that, when calling friends. Why wouldn't a real world business person keep calling -- until the recipient of the calls simply says to stop? No answer means, "Try again." Pressing a number, if their prerecorded message says it will, actually means, "Don't call any more."

I know people post messages saying they tried, and it didn't work. That may be true. For them. I cannot remember a time when it did not work for me. My recommendation is that, as much as I hate having to do it, and understand how much you don't want to do it, you pick up and interact with the caller in whatever manner it takes, to communicate a do not call request.

Those are facts. Your reality may be different, so I really do want to know some facts which support the notion that anyone will buy a list of people who expressed a wish to be put on a caller's do not call list.

Called, no message.

received a call no one would speak so I hung up...........

unsolicited call re: "working capital loan".

Scam

I just got call from them too. 1/18/17. They are total [***].

I am fed up with these scammers continuance calling and harassment!  Caller ID reads - Garden City NY; Caller: One Way Funding, Call type: Telemarketer

One way funding BS

When I answered they hung up.

4 calls from these worthless bags of meat in the last 15 minutes.They just don't get it.One of these times they are going to call the wrong person to many time and they are going to do things a different way