The google listing scams

Point Break is on my radar.  I'm having trouble finding out more about them since they aren't legally allowed to be in business.

Feel better after ranting at two four year old posts?
Do you even comprehend the fact that the original posters will not be looking for a response after all that time and your intended targets will never read your drivel?

You do know that your rant here does NOTHING to help anyone understand anything about calls you may have gotten. My only thoughts after reading  your rantings, is "I wonder who this person is talking to,  poor sap just doesn't have a clue!  Maybe fantasy life is all they have now...."
Edit:
ahh, I see its a MADD troll ranting pointlessly .......no more food for you!

Further redundant posts will be reported as spam.  You are posting clueless and dull-witted replies to post made years ago.

Got a call about my Google Listing being dropped if I didn't respond to their calls. Decided to see what they had to say, so I pressed 1 and waited. When the guy got on the phone, I asked him why he thought I needed a Google Listing, to which he responded, "to promote whatever it is that you do". I told him I volunteer at our church and he said "there you go, that is why you need the listing"! I then told him that I know that there is no such thing as a Google Listing, and that he was scum and hung up and blocked the number.

Actually a Google Listing is a real thing, but your judgment of the caller's character and the action you took with him were quite correct.
Any business (and I doubt that volunteering at Church would be considered a business) can create a free listing on Google's "Google My Business" to promote their business.
Callers like yours are scammers that at best will charge outrageous amounts for something their victim can do for free and at worst will just abscond with the victim's payment information and steal as much as they can.

To add to Nimrod's post, Google does not call you, and many of these callers say they are from "Google Support" or otherwise use the "Google" name/trademark without mentioning their legal business name - especially in the pre-recorded message. You often have to ask what their company name is. Google will not "drop your listing" for random reasons. If these people are willing to lie to you a little, there's every reason to believe they will lie to you a lot.

If you get the company name, please complain to Google and provide them that company name, their use of Google trademarks, mis-statements about Google's services (especially "being dropped" unless they talk to them). Hopefully they will sue them like they did Local Lighthouse.

If you want to create a Google business listing (it's free, and there's no reason your Church should not have one), just go to https://www.google.com/business/ and set it up yourself. If you zoom in on the Church address in Google Maps, you should see an icon for the Church. If it's not there, you might talk to your Church about setting it up.

Excellent report Nick.I am pursuing this through google fraud and the FTC.

Instead of replying to a 3 year-old post here, you would have done better to actually look up the number that called you and post your comments there.

I probably get about 5 calls a day from all sorts of numbers trying to pull this scam, hundreds of different ones over the last 4 - 5 years.  They're all illegal robo calls, and in the last year, more and more calls have been from spoofed local area codes or contain several digits of my phone's number.  How many companies are out there doing this?  Is it just a few or many?  It seems google, the real google, could nip this in the bud by just publicly announcing the scam, that it's not them perpetrating it, and that these scammers are not affiliated with google whatsoever.  At any rate, enough people must fall for it to keep the lights on in these call centers to scam the people who do get called and press #1 to speak to a representative.  I can't block these with my phone, but I have identified them as 'google BS' and assigned them a unique ring tone, so if I'm in the middle of something I don't have to worry about answering.  I get a ton of business from my free listing but this part of it is quite annoying, to say the least.

↪ Here is another company making these calls: E-Listing Services. The robocall voice identifies as Jennifer, a data services provider.

This company is supposedly based out of Crestview, Florida, but I neither confirmed this nor found an entry in the Florida corporate database for the above name. They have a website that lists a toll-free contact number (877-418-6542).

The call came from 248-565-6700 to my home phone.