no voice 4 or5 times a day

my husband calls me from this phone daily he is in the navy and calls to say he's ok when no one is around him to tell him to get off the satellite phone.  he's mostly off in the indian ocean somewhere when he calls from it..hope that helps a bit

This number has called upteen million times and when I or we answer there is noone there or there is a dialtone....WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!?!??  AS FAR AS I CAN TELL THIS NUMBER SEEMS TO CALL EVERYONE! THE POLICE SHOULD BE NOTIFIED AND THERE SHOULD BE SOME ACTION TAKEN CAUSE IF A COP WAS TO SEE THIS IT WOULD BE UPGRADED TO A HARASSMENT CHARGE I WOULD THINK?  IF NOT THEN WTF ARE COPS THERE FOR YA KNOW??

They keep calling my husband it is a no american voice.. then when he calls back no one there,, What is this and who is going to stop it ...

called 4 times in 2 days
no one is there, 3 seconds after pick up it disconnects
when i try to dial the number i get to 1-163-16 and then the number can not be dialed

I am sick of these jerks calling several times a day and no one on line. They are costing me money when they call as it is counted as an outgoing call!

i just recieved a call from 1-631-653-3000.  our dauaghter answered the phone and the man asked to speak with her dad.  the gentleman asked for her dad by name.  then preceeded to ask my daughter how she was, what grade she was in and many other questions.  she hung up the phone.  who is this guy?

We have received 4-5 calls today alone from this number. They dont say anything. They just sit there and then hang up......We stopped answering

163-165-3300
They call about 4 times a day.
They are wanting to update your yellow page listing.

If you are one of these people calling me, god help you if I get my hands around your throat.

We've gotten 4 calls from this number in the last 4 hours.  No answer, just silence then a busy signal.

Four calls from this number today starting at 8:30 am. I work nights, so you can imagine how happy I am with these jerks. When we've answered in the past, they either don't say anything or it's the yellow pages thing. When I refuse to give them any information, they hang up. Then they call back seven more times a day.

Our business receives 9-11 phone calls per day.  Most of the time we don't answer these calls, but when we do, they either hang up or say that they are from the yellow pages verifying information.  We advertise with the yellow pages & they have all of our information on file.  I have checked with our yellow pages rep & they said it is a scam.  DO NOT GIVE THESE PEOPLE ANY INFORMATION!!!  They are fishing, identity theft is my guess.  This 163 area code is not even in the states.  Call the FTC & file a complaint (877)382-4357.  The more complaints they get the faster they will be able to do something to get this stopped!

Happens to me too. They call my buisness line several times a day. Now I ignore them. When I did answer a handful of times, so I could tell them to stop, there has never been anyone on the other end. Yes - they certainly use predictive dialers (which should be illegal imo)

I was warned not to give them info, they will probably slam you and change your long distance carrier.

I receive several calls per day from this number at my business and no one is there when I pick up.  I tried calling the number and can't do so as the number won't go through a dialing cycle without getting a message that the number cannot be completed as dialed from the phone I am using ...which is my office phone.

I will not tolerate this and neither should anyone else. I will seek some action if it continues. You can file communication harrasment on these people.

Just to clarify the above comment - they are calling the company Rugged Thug - the bad number is not from Rugged Thug.

They must be trying to pull identity scams

I get at least 3 calls a day from this number and usually when I answer there is a hang up. But the other day someone said they were calling to list our business in the yellow pages and I nicely asked them to not put us in there and they hung up on me! Then they just called today and didn't let me speak at first and when I told them I had already told them no and to take us off the national do not call list they hung up on me again! If they call again I am going to see if I can report them to our state's attorney office-this is not fair and they are rude!!!!

This number keeps coming up on my caller id for the company RuggedThug.com

Too bad the world sucks and you can't stop crap like this.

I have about 3-4 phone calls per day with this same number. No voice just
a dial tone after me picking up.

I receive anywhere from 1-4 phone calls/day from this phone number.  I've received the calls for the last 2-4 weeks.  No one is ever on the line.

Ditto for several calls a day.  Leaves no message.  Not a US area code.

163-165-3300 seems to be just another pain in the butt scammer/telemarketer. I don't answer any calls from numbers I do not know. I really hate what the world has come to in ways that people are hurting/using other people just for money.

June 30, 2008 , at 5:58 Pm in New York State, I got a phone call from a 1-163-165-03300, Who is this and why didn't they answer the phone when I answered.  I said hello three times and hung up.

Do you know who this is????

Sandra
Yourangeleyes60@aol.com

I receive a call from this number at least once a day and there is no one is on the other end. When I try to call it back it says it is a none working number

I keep getting calls from this number but at first I did not pick up because it looked like a suspicious number and they would not leave a message. But after they would call 6-7 (or more) times a day I was getting fed up so I had my husband pick up when they would call back and they'd hang up. And so I picked up today when they called and nothing, just an open line sound. I'm sick of it.

found the area code-it is from Baranovici, Belarus
Probably Russian mafia scam to steal identities

I got the call on 8-13-08.  A male with a slight forien accent identified himself as representing my local yellow pages and wanted to verify my business information.  

I once worked in a telemarketing environment, and I could hear the same telemarketing business in the background noise.  

He knew my street address, city, state, and zip code. Then he asked to verify my name and asked for my first name.  I told him.  Then he asked for my last name.  I asked if he was calling from India.  He said no.  Then I asked where he was calling from and he said from my city.  I told him that yellow pages does not publish in my city and does not have a call center there.  Then I asked what telephone company he was representing, and then he hung up.

The following morning I got a call again from that same number, and they hung up upon me answering.

The background "noise" from the call indicates that this is a very large telemarketing organization.  They are not legitimate, so if someone were to answer, just ask to be taken off the call list and DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFORMATION.

I think that one reason that they call and hang up, is that our phone numbers are in that company's computer "que" and the telemarketers are evaluated on the number of calls they make per day. They probably have monitors that listen in, and the ones that do the most calling and hanging up (therefore not productive for their company) are replaced.  The ones that are able to receive the most information from calls and rewarded and retained.

I called my ATT yellow pages representative, the legitimate company with which I do have a yellow pages ad, and they are aware of telemarketer scammers, but there is nothing they can do about it.

3 calls today and 3 yesterday from same number-all hang-ups
Called Federal Trade Commission and filed a complaint-they suggested I call the FCC too and I did.  FCC cannot do anything about it because we are a business and not residential, so-o-o apparantly the only Federal agency that can investigate is the FTC.
I suggest we flood them with complaints to get this stopped. Their phone number is 877-382-4357.  Business professionals of the U.S.A. unite and b***h to the government to get this stopped!!!!!

Glad to know I'm not alone! I googled the number and stumbled across this site. It's driving me crazy!!! All but one of the calls have been hangups - the one call I did get was the yellow pages thing, which I immediately hung up on. I guess I'll do the only thing I can which is call the FTC.

This number constantly calls our office at the same time each day. I do not receive a voice, but I get a hang-up immediately but first a sound like the line is connecting.

I need to find a way to get these types of telemarketer scammers to stop calling!