9544921645

I get calls from PRIVATE CALLER and no one ever answers they hang up. Last night My husband was here when I ran out and he answered the phone. Surprise, seems someone talked to him from Multiple Sclerosis and asked for a donation. He for some reason promised $30 and I looked at the caller ID and again it showed the PRIVATE CALLER. He said someone would call back. I waited and waited and no one did. Well someone did this morning and I told her there would be no donation and every time this PRIVATE CALLER called they hung up on me. I also added we are on the DNC list. I don't know what my husband was thinking but there's no way I would have given these people a CC#. I wish there was a way to stop these scams.

For months we were getting calls from PRIVATE NUMBER as someone else on this blog was getting.  My husband thought it could have been someone from his work so he answered it after I asked him not too.  It was Multiple Sclerosis.  Since then the Private Number calls have stopped and now we get calls two sometimes 3 times a day cid says Multiple Sclerosis because my husband said he'd donate!  I gave them an earful this morning and if they call again they will be out of luck cuz no one will answer!!!!!

954-492-1645   -   This number is being used for telemarketing and fund raising by the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation National Headquarters in Southeast Florida.  The fact that this organization is using unscrupulous telemarketing methods, and has no regard for the fact that the recipients of their calls are on the “Do-Not-Call” list, has been well documented by the frustrated call recipients on blogs throughout the internet;  a simple Google search of this number will reveal the number of frustrated households who have been harassed by this organization over-and-over again.  The fact that this organization would use this type of telemarketing scam leads me to believe that it is just another “not-for-profit-front” organization that lives in a tax-free environment solely for the benefit of its executives….. I would not be at all surprised if this was just another front that collects money on the pretext of being a charity, but after the “administrative expenses” necessary to provide comfortable offices, great benefits and high salaries to their “staff”, only passes a very small fraction of donations collected through to actual researchers or programs to assist people with this disease.   Do NOT give these people any of your hard-earned money.  It also would appear that the people this organization has hired to make these harassing calls have found a way to dupe their employer….. It seems that this organization must be paying these “telemarketers” some sort of bonus for making a quota of “completed calls”, because they keep calling and calling the same number once they find a number where someone will actually pick up the phone, or a voice mail will answer, in order to inflate their “successful contact” list.  Many times after the initial contact, they don’t even bother staying on the phone or saying anything when the phone is answered…they just hang up, presumably because the call-tracking computer has already logged a “successful contact”.

Here is one of the adds this organization posted on the internet in order to find people to conduct this harassment:

Find Jobs - TELEPHONE CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISERS $9-$15 / hr GUARANTEED ...
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Jul 7, 2011 – 954-492-1645. Ref ID: sf009353. Description TELEPHONE CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISERS $9-$15 / hr GUARANTEED Make money & make a difference! ...

Seems like MS has a New Jersey number now. 862-231-2554 has been ID as an IRS or grant scam as well as MS solicitation.
To me any unwanted phone scam is a prank.