240-699-8950

telemarketer calls my cell phone

This number called and left me a voice mail spiel about how my spouse and I have won two plane tickets to anywhere in America. They left some 800 number to call back on...of course I won't do that. Just some silly telemarketing scam, no doubt.

This number called my cell phone and I do not give that number to anyone but family for emergency use.

They invited to to have beer at the white house!

Called me on my cell phone to let me know my spouse and I won a free 4 night, 5 day cruise leaving Galveston, TX to the Caribbean. Left a number (800-277-2515) for me to call back and book passage.

These people are spoofing their Caller i.d.  I live in Houston and the number 240-699-8950 came through with the Caller i.d. reading "Harris County."  Harris is our County, but anybody who lives here knows full well that the area code 240 is not associated with an area anywhere close to us.  Area code 240 is in Maryland.  What idiots.

They must be busy in Houston today! I just received a call from this number and I too live in the Houston area. I reiterate that the 240 prefix, is NOT a Harris County, TX number. These people are both sneaky and not too smart!

Just called my home number also. 240....Harris County...what dweebs! Really tired of getting spoofed calls!!! Thank God I have number blocking on my phone.
Add another one to the list.

I also live in Houston, Texas  i just got the same call.  Hope they pay alot for long distance charges!

I just got a call from 240-699-8950 Harris County.  I live in Harris County and it to puzzled me, so I looked it up and got all this info.  I did not answer and I  do not like getting these calls.

I got a call from the 240 699 8950 and it imitates the Kansans for Life, but is definitely not a number from our state--KFL is a 316 number.  We live in SE KS.

It is that time of the year, and yea, it's Kansans For Life disturbing all of us at home (because none of us obviously reads newspapers, watches the news, or is even educated on the political issues - so we must need a call at our homes.  We must not be as smart as the people in Topeka & Washington.)

And yes, despite that the area code is for Buckeystown, Maryland, phone companies for nearly a century have been selling other companies and organizations phone numbers in any area code of the world they want.  Where the caller ID or the call says it is coming from is meaningless - someone working for a company/organization 2 blocks from your house could be calling you with a number that shows up as India.  It's the same thing as 1-800 numbers (it just happens to be a 1-240 number in this case.)

Telemarketers, politicians, and debt collectors (all three the scum of the Earth) think that you are more likely to answer the phone if you see some "odd" area code and not a 1-800 number, so that's why they're using numbers like these.  More legal gray-area tactics.

Caller ID: KFC - PAC (Kansans For Life - Political Activist Call)
Caller Number:  240-699-8950

This is from Kansans for Life

This number called this AM caller ID Pat Boone was in fact a Jim Ryan who had been a member of congress before he got voted out

unknown call no mesage

Call came from Maryland to Kansas  by land line at 13:29 hours CDT on 8-3-2010. Call not answered and no message left. The KFL PAC on the caller ID is the Kansas For Life political action committee.