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How many being called today are in Oregon?  Today is 03/24/2015....

I got a call at 11:49 today. I'm on the Oregon coast, in Bandon.

Ooma blocks calls. Thank you Ooma! You've cut down spam calls 99.99%

No, the caller uses a NY metro VOIP phone number, which is not the same as originating there. The same caller has also used multiple numbers in Virginia and Washington DC area codes, all of them Level 3 VOIP accounts.

Reports of all the "nothing" being done by the "feel good" FTC to clean out Telemarketing Sales Rule violators:

Enforcement of the Do Not Call Registry  (summary, links)
http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resource ... try/enforcement

Robocalls and the Do Not Call Registry  (summary, links)
http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/do-not-call-registry/robocalls

If you don't add reports to the Consumer Sentinel Network, law enforcement cannot know which illegal nuisance callers need to be spanked first, capisce?

Here's the first comment in this thread to correctly define the real purpose of the "back brace" calls and also the trashy commercials being vaguely referenced. The product is a cash grab of medical insurance and may do more harm than good.

Dialing numbers registered on the DNCR is but the first of several illegal actions. The calls deliver an automated sales message and the messages tell outright lies, insisting falsely that the pitch is a response to a consumer inquiry. All of that violates the Telemarketing Sales Rule.

} I really with [sic] the FTC would do its job

First you have to help the FTC "do its job". Your job is to report illegal callers to them and state AGs. You can also sue the offenders yourself if you manage to locate their real domestic headquarters.

These scammers and every other name that I can't use here..I have received a call a couple of times recently the CID showed that the number was from my phone as listed in the phone directory. My neighbor has received calls just like mine..ie her name showing. ITs a shame that these blankety, blanketly people don't use their time to do good deeds for other people.

I have noticed recently that when you get one if these nuisance calls..not too long after that you get another from an unknown..I think a lot of them are in the same office..they can program the caller ids to show whatever they choose. I've received two calls in recent months that when they come in on the CID it shows my name and number just as it is in the phone directory. My neighbor has also received calls the same way.

I re ceuved call today 3-24 at 12:24 pm. I wasn't here but had I been I would not have answered it. I'm in South Carolina.

They call me and said tv ?

We have received the same call here sporadically since late October 2014 from several different VOIP numbers in varying area codes issued by the carrier Level 3, and a few blocked/unknown duds. When we get a piece of the pitch at all, it's been the same looping recording of a cheery female voice each time. Here's my transcript from mid-February, emphasis is noted as heard:

    "This is a return call *you* have requested regarding the back brace commercial you saw on TV, which is *covered* by your insurance. Press 'one' now to be connected to one of our agents ... or press 'two' if you *no longer* wish to receive the information you called about."

As reported by many others, nobody here made such an inquiry, and in fact we had no bloody idea what "commercial" could have been referenced. Weeks after the first call I began to notice cheap direct response TV ads for back and knee braces. There are three that I know of which have aired this year and they don't seem to have a common origin. There is also no casual way to link any of them to these phone spammers.

The point of these calls is a racket I will term Medical Insurance Poaching until someone coins a better phrase. If you think you need some assistive device and you've never attended medical school, it's probably unwise to experiment on yourself. It's better to see a real doctor who can lay hands on you and determine if a device is both medically necessary and also safe to use. The poachers want to slide past all that gatekeeping and get to the part where they bill your medical insurers for items which are overpriced, unapproved, misrepresented, and likely "unsafe at any speed". This is what they mean when they promise to "handle all the paperwork" and that the miracle device is totally "free to you".

This pattern has been seen before. Some of you will recall when cable TV channels were awash in creepy direct response ads for diabetic testing supplies and not really "free" meters. Prior to that you couldn't go six hours without seeing a long pitch for a powered wheelchair. You don't see those ads for the Hoveround and the Rascal and The Scooter Store now since the latter company filed for bankruptcy following an FBI raid, a DoJ probe, a multi-million dollar fine, and a whistleblowing lawsuit all pointing to a business model of Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

These back brace calls violate the Telemarketing Sales Rule on several counts, most obviously by dialing numbers registered on the DNCR. The calls deliver a canned sales message and that message makes false and misleading statements, such as insisting that the caller is responding to a consumer inquiry and making an assumption that a medical insurer will cover the item cost.

Like many carpet-bombing scammers, the caller wishes to appear legitimate by offering a required method for opting out of future calls. However, several complaints here indicate that the keypress response for opting out leads straight to the same boiler room you would get if you signal an interest in the product. Those who complain about the unwanted calls and stench of fraud hear rude replies and/or rapid disconnections, with no assurances that the calls will stop. The FTC wants sellers to make opting out simple and immediate, so this rude practice is hardly in the spirit of compliance.

It's likely that people who engage the phone drones will hear other material misrepresentations of the item's actual cost and efficacy, making further TSR violations. Also note that the frauds have to collect privileged information from their victims to complete their scheme. Once they have the keys to your insurers, nothing will stop them or their scammer friends from filing more false claims or sending you things you never requested.

Call recipients can nominate these crooks for an FTC lawsuit by reporting each call. They can also take their own revenge in court with a TCPA action, but only if these cowardly owners hiding behind ever-shifting VOIP numbers and foreign call centers can be found on American soil. (I'd look in Florida first, a haven of tele-frauds.)

Just got a call from this # I just answered and put the phone down. LOL

Called from this number (646-502-9187) and heard a recorded message telling me I 'requested' information about a back brace. I never called for any such information. A lie, a scam. I am registered with 'do not call' but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

I picked up and it was a recording saying that I had called them in response to an ad I had seen on TV.  I hung up.  caller ID only says "Unknown Name."

Did not answer.  No Caller ID.  No message.  I'm in South Carolina.  So tired of these calls.

I on phone getting RX refilled for hubby, received 1st beep from this number. Ignored at 3:45pm EDT. Hubby on phone 4:35pm EDT another beep. Neither answered. Thank God, I've finally convinced Hubby DO NOT ANSWER phone. We do not know anyone in New York. Only drove through there 1 time 30 yrs. ago. After reading posts here, blocked this #.

You don't have to "know anyone in New York". The caller could be located anywhere with an internet connection. The same caller has also been using area codes for Virginia and VA suburbs of DC since early December 2014.

3/20 at 12:30 pm. CID = New York NY. I don't answer callers I don't recognize.