3175595545

I got the call and answered it.  I think I may have been scammed and am now worried.  Claimed to be an organization about things kids are seeing on tv, phones and Ipads.

I received a call from the above  phone number today. The caller spoke in broken English and claimed to be the  U.S government calling to inform me I was to receive a grant of $7000.00 dollars. I am not stupid and know that one does not receive government grants unless applied for  and approved under strict guidelines. I gave this caller no personal information and terminated the call by leading the caller to believe I was on my way out the door

The national pandemic of telephone terrorism perpetrated by desperate criminal collection agencies and scam artists of every despicable sort is because they are trying to terrorize people who are naive enough to answer and submit to unsolicited telephone calls or written "collection" letters that have no legitimate legal debt associated with them or any of the companies, universities, or whomever else they claim to represent. Because most "little guys" were bankrupted by the criminal Wall St / Congress / Big Oil / Big Bankers / Big Business / Military / Robber Barons, so the desperate collection agencies are attempting to collect unpaid debts from innocent people by terrorizing them into submission. News reports claim that some of these nefarious rogue calls are originating from overseas, where the caller claims to be a relative down on his or her luck who needs hundreds or thousands of dollars to get out of trouble, a policeman or government agent threatening their unwitting victims with lawsuits, fines, garnishments, seizures of property and imprisonment, and any other unconscionable tactic they can use to terrify and swindle the unwary out of their life savings.

Word of advice. NEVER answer any calls you don't recognize or are not expecting. Use selective call rejection service if available, or switch to an Internet-based telephone service which provides comprehensive call rejection options. If rogue calls become chronic, turn off all the ringers on all of your phones except one, and set its volume to the minimum setting. Digital hardware call blockers, the popular "DIGITONE Call Blocker 10" for example, could help or do harm depending on how high-tech and aggressive the rogue callers are against your phone number. The more technology you use against them, the more likely they will use technology more aggressively against you to the point where your phone could ring more frequently from rogue calls and in middle of the night hours. So staying lower-tech could actually help to keep your phone a bit more under their unrelenting predatory radar. If you don't answer the call and the caller is legitimate, they will usually leave a voicemail after the first or second try. Rogue callers almost never leave voicemail messages because that could be used as evidence against them if it came to a lawsuit, albeit spoofed calls are backed by governments and corporations, so there is nothing the little guy can do against such illegitimate activities but to block and ignore them. If you receive a rogue letter in the mail warning you of some "collection" action against you, if you don't actually owe it, reply with a short letter stating that you don't owe it. Or if you do owe all or part of it, reply with something like "You claim I owe you a debt. Under §809 FDCPA, I request validation of this debt."

Only give them your name as THEY have written it to you (e.g. “John Doe” not “Jonathon Q. Doe” or however you normally sign your own name), address, and the account number they report. But if you do not owe the debt (zombie debt, aged debt, mistaken or stolen identity, forgery, etc.) state that you have never done any business with them or with the (alleged) original creditor of any kind and you expect the collection agency to close the matter, stop harassing you and take any bad credit marks they've caused off of your credit rating, and furthermore, that any further contact from them must be in writing on their official business correspondence letterhead. Send your letter to them a.s.a.p., always within thirty days, first class certified mail return receipt requested. If they refuse it and you get the letter back unopened, leave it unopened and save it in your files as evidence against them should they pursue legal action against you. If they did receive it and continue to pursue action against you, let them. The judge will throw it out of court. If the rogue collection agency sells your account to another rogue collection agency just tell them the claim has been proven invalid and offer to send them a copy of your letter to the previous rogue collection agency.

Warn all your friends about this rash of desperate collection agency terrorism, and how to combat it. Knowledge is power. The more you learn how to combat rogue collection agencies, back-taxes scammers, phishing scammers, "faith and family" scammers, political action committees and other low-life flimflammers, the more you will learn how easy it is to do.

Above all, keep a record of everything, of every rogue call w/ caller ID information displayed including time and date of each call. Maintain a complete file on any snail-mailed intimidation from rogue collection agencies, including copies of all correspondences and postal receipts. Reporting rogue calls on sites like 800notes.com, whocallsme.com, phoneowner.info is a great idea too, because many people find these sites by googling for the rogue number(s) after receiving calls from them.

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Start Here:
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs3-hrs2.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%C2%A7809+FDCPA
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=zombie-debt
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=slander-of-credit
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=limited ... llection-agency
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm
http://www.ehow.com/way_5849463_do-up-certified-dispute-letter.html
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Battling-Consumer-Debt-Collectors-Part-2-I-Do-Not-Owe-This-Debt
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Sample-letters-for-disputes-to-creditors--collectors-and-credit-bureaus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDCPA
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/Disputing ... ute-letter.html
(most say the above sample letter is too long and should be much shorter)
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/statue-limitations.html
http://www.spooftel.com/

Credit Report:
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

USPS:
https://www.usps.com/send/insurance-and-extra-services.htm

Other links:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/29 ... tors/index.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/category/12/103/358/
http://clarkhoward.com/topics/drop_dead_letter.html
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Information for filing complaints against rogue telephone calls, telephone harassment, false "bill collector" harassment, etc., in the United States and Canada (pursue legal action only as a last resort):

UNITED STATES

US National Do Not Call Registry, file complaint: https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov 1-877-382-4357
File complaint online: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
that is at www.ftc.gov

Federal Communications Commission
Telephone toll free:  1-888-225-5322
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html
File complaint online: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumers.html
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

FCC Abandoned Calls Complaint form:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/1088D-R.pdf
email:  fccinfo@fcc.gov

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/us/


INTERNET CRIME:
File report for Internet Crime at:
Internet Crime Complaint Centre
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx


CANADA

RCMP Phone busters
Telephone toll free: 1-888-495-8501
Mon-Fri 8:30-5:20 pm (Eastern Time)
E-mail: info@phonebusters.com
RCMP Website is at: http://www.phonebusters.com  
File complaint online:  https://www.recol.ca/intro.aspx?lang=en
(Register with a password and then can continually file complaints)

Canada National Do Not Call Registry:
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Telephone toll free to File A Complaint: 1-866-580-3625
(to withdraw a complaint is 877-249-2782)
CRTC online complaints form: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/pfplin-fccoin-eng
that is at  www.crtc.gc.ca

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/canada/

No legit company/organization/non-profit would EVER call with obscure caller ID name/number and ask ANY QUESTION about anything personal without first IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES. Pick up the phone (or not, then you're a target forEVER) and scream THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE JIHADIST TERRORIST HOTLINE. They will not relent.
Not Available 646-558-6688
Le Suer MN 507-540-0340

Also see: 800notes.com

they called for my daughter who hasn't lived in this state for five years. Refused to talk to me.

The same thing happened to me. I asked who was paying her to make these calls and suddenly she says, she has a bad connection and will call another time. Yeah right.

It seems that the survey is a ploy to get your contact information so they can build and sell a mailing/phone list to companies, supposedly of people who have agreed to be contacted to discuss children's media products or have said products promoted to them.  Um, not exactly!
http://lists.nextmark.com/market?page=order/online/datacard&id=383843

Cor4character 317-559-5545, this number could not get through, if they
ever call again! I'll take the phone and quick click on them.

Seems these People R Starting this Scam Once again as I Received a Call from this # & Company this Evening! It was Ignored! Which is the Best Practice NowDays! If They Persist They will be Reported to the Correct Law EnForcement Organizations! Sadly this is the World that We Live in NowDays! But Yu Never ever Answer a Call that Yu Don't Recognize Who is Making the Call!

I got a call once. They knew my nickname ad acted as if they were a family member. I'm only 14, they got a hold of my personal cell and my home phone number. They have been calling me for weeks. Of course I never pick up but it's getting really annoying.

This caller calls my home phone several times a day.  And, begins to say, "my name is Amanda"; then, the call hangs up.  Same caller from 2-different numbers (317) 559-5545 and (314) 666-8400.   I never answer calls from numbers I do not recognize.

317-559-5545 =Corporation 4 character, I  just received a call from them wanting me to press "9" to "sign their petition" I asked several times "exactly what does the petition say? How does it read??" She responded with thank you anyways. ( Im not pressing number 9) I could have been agreeing to accept a collect call or third party call or something. They absolutly got the number from the telephone company i use. CimTel in OK. good luck

Call from Corporations of America asking if this was Becky.  When I said yes they said, "ok then we will call back another time"  I said "this is Becky what did you want."  no response.  I stated that if they did not want to talk to me to take me off their list.  Still no response.    

I didn't answer call.

These two numbers show on my caller ID from this company 602-753-5621 & 815-687-8080 Both say same thing. I have not answered the phone and turn off the ringer.. they have called twice a day for the last two weeks.

Kathy...I didn't have my glasses on either.  Also, a big mistake that I will not repeat.  I hung up on them mid-sentence.  I suspect a con, telemarketer, or some other undesirable!

Got same survey call. Answered first question and then questioned them about call. She said she was having trouble hearing me and would have a manager call right back. She never called back and could not return the call from 317-559-5545.

This is weird.  I see other people have the same problem with a call coming from this number.  
She knew my name.  My number is unlisted.

caller id showed "corp4character"  3175595545. caller asked for "lady of the home". Told her she was not available. Can I help you?  Caller said only lady of house could help.What is it concerning? I asked
She got very nervous and blurted out "I will call later!"

a woman called at 8:15 a.m. and asked is this (first name of person), I answered yes.  She then coughed and hung up.