Medical Compensation

I have been getting a call a few times a week from a company saying I qualify for compensation from a surgery I had. I have NOT had surgery in my life and I asked where they are located and the persons name. The man on the phone said his name was Mike Walter and they were located in Atlanta GA. When I asked for the phone number to the business he became forceful and wanted to know why I needed it. I asked again and he hung up. This time the call came from an unknown number so I don't know how to report them. I put my number on the do not call and cant get them to stop. What do I need to do to stop this ?

Consider maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $60.00 or so.

You can go to the FTC & FCC's websites, they have phone numbers you can call also.
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
https://esupport.fcc.gov/ccmsforms/form1088.action
http://www.stopfraud.gov/report.html

I guess you can't be scolded for not using a number thread, though there are several I've seen with the same kind of story. "Mike Walter" is not the name his momma gave him and he's probably nowhere near Georgia. Usually these calls come from incomprehensible cretins in South Asia.

If you play along, you'll hear a "legal settlement offer" and/or that you're part of a class action and entitled to a split from the damage award. The premise will be a lawsuit over medication or surgery. Doesn't matter, this will be the first you've ever heard of it. Soon you'll learn that you have to pay a fee to collect your award. In other more familiar words, it's advance fee fraud.

In the US if you win a damage award as a plaintiff or a class action member, you *DO NOT PAY TO COLLECT* that award. Your legal notices will come *in print*, by paper mail, and if you miss those the class lawyers typically have a web site or other means of being contacted by class members. They're not going to surprise you one day with mysterious phone calls from dumb drones who cannot answer basic questions about the alleged lawsuit or redirect you to authentic information.

Since you're dealing with criminal types, no doubt hiding behind spoofed numbers and cheap VOIP, they scoff at your no-call list registrations like everyone else selling snake oil on the phone. Send your story to your state attorney general and the FTC to lend the problem more notice. For your personal problem, you'll have to avoid answering (at times difficult), trick them into avoiding you (depends on your talent), or find a call blocking scheme which suits you. If I thought the clowns were domestic, I'd try to find and sue them, but the 'finding' part could frustrate that plan.

I got a call like this today. I put my four year old on the phone and told him to tell them ALL about what he had for lunch today. (He basically talks non stop.) To my surprise, when he handed the phone back to me, the gal was still there, albeit very confused. I suggested she not call back and hung up.