Got a call an hour ago. Was curious so I googled the number. I didn't answer and we have no answering machine on our landline so I thought I'd check just in case it was important. Obviously not!

Who is this from?

I was  called yesterday. so I pushed 1 nobody was on the other end just a dial tone

pu on do not call list.  U r not welcome to come calling my phone number.  Please desist and destain.  do not call  CO NOT CALL   DOO NOTT CALLLL

Just got one of these calls from 303-226-6262.  I decided I was going to try to mess around and have some fun with them, so I pushed 1.  Some guy answered and asked me immediately for the make and model of my vehicle.  I said, "you'll have to tell me which vehicle you're calling about because I have two cars" and his response was (yelling) "I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU ANYTHING, JEFF!" and he SLAMMED down the phone.

A little scary that he used my name, but whatever.

On May 11 at 9:32 A.M. MDT, I got a recorded message regarding important information about my car insurance. I was told that pressing the # key 6 or 7 times confuses the phone robot and it dumps your number from the system.  I did that and the recording stopped.

On May 11 at 9:32 A.M. MDT, I got a call from an automated machine claiming to have important information about my car insurance. I've been told that pressing the # key 6 or 7 times will confuse the phone robot and it will bounce your number from the system.  The recording stopped when I pressed the # key. BTW, the 303 area code is for Colorado.

What a rude jerk! There is a special place in hell for people like this.

Got one this morning (manitoba).  Just report these jerks when they call if you're on the do not call list, it's quick and easy to register or report a telemarketer/scamer.  I rarely get these calls anymore, this has to be the first one I've gotten in over a year.  I get a certain amount of satisfaction when I make a complaint to the DNCL website.  Remember they get fined per call that's reported so REPORT!

this number calls several time a day because i work in a call center just want to advise all that under the law they must remove your number immediately when you ask them to put you on their do not call list, if they give you some story about 30 days etc ask for manager as only on national do not call list can it take up to 31 days company list is immediate and if they call again you can contact better business bureau and crtc and they can lose their license.

By the way, Claude, that also goes for 8778892024 and 8667162707 who repeatedly call. One of them is allegedly SEARS wanting to get you for additional warranties. I have them blocked as well.

Call your local 'phone service provider and add "CALL SCREEN" to your account (around $1.95/ month).
You program these numbers into a list. When they call, your 'phone will not ring and they will be given a message that says that you are not taking calls at this time. it works.

Nova Scotia again 5 May 2010

Winnipeg here.  They're calling me too.  I hit the ignore button (on my cell phone).  No message.  It's been quiet for me for a while.  Have had the scamming old car warranty thing before.  We can thank the Canadian goverment for selling our numbers to other countries.  Canadian companies can't call us but other countries can.  How's that for wanting a country to succeed?   Sheesh.  I have resorted to just not answering any number I don't recognize ever.  It's when you pick up that they keep calling you because they know there's someone there.

If anyone who has inquired here today returns to read this, it seems that this kind of thing goes in "spurts". The 303 area code, calls from the 306 (Sask tel.) etc. It's always telemarketers and yeah, I too am on the Gov.'s DNC List. doesn't matter though.  I now have Vonage, it allows me to block all Private Incoming Calls, my local ph. provider did not so I switched. Awhile ago I had a few calls from Sears, seemed that the window air conditioner (I never actually bought though) was soon to be up for renewal for the warranty. Idiots kept calling every evening. Sears Canada was told to cease and desist and then I hear they use an overseas service for those calls which cough, they say was exempt. Uh no, it wasn't. It seems today that The Globe and Mail IS allowed to call you and it is 1 of the places the DNC List doesn't allow you to refuse. I told the G & M -well, I guess by bothering me and not honouring my request, you'd rather piss me off so I NEVER buy your paper in the future no matter what. Alienate me now and I don't forget you know. So they too complied. It cost me a few minutes off my long distance allowance/quota for Vonage minutes but I never use up my 500 free per month anyway. Another thing for those reading this-I was in the local MTS directory for decades, now with Vonage I'm anonymous. Actually didn't know that canadapages.ca continues to post my real info though. Complained to them and advised they must take me off their list as this is now a matter of privacy. I have nothing to hide but DID switch to Vonage to avoid extra costs that my other provider would ding me for even having my number in the book which I advised I did not and they'd honour it if I paid of course. Just so all you people know, you can get 50 calls like you recently complained or questioned about recently, they can be 50 diff. places and there will always be those who inquire online about the same numbers. It's a plague but thankfully our cell numbers aren't targets-NEVER allowed to be of course and no matter who is calling you on your landline number, it's a dangerous game if they start, trust me. With Vonage, those annoying telemarketer calls dropped considerably, the registration on the DNC List added to that. Bitching ta them even better when possible. I have a really elderly neighbourwho used to get tons of calls each night from whoever was selling something-she's Polish and English is poor and we used to laugh when visiting her and the calls came in. They were very frustrated when she really couldn't understand them and her English was so broken. Advice? IF you do answer a call and it's a real live person on the other end, try this schtick  okay. Ask them WHAT, many many times, start speaking some garbled words that COULD BE another language you know, then use a seriously BAD obscenity and let em hang up, OR, do you know what those boat horns sound like-the compressed air types that sound like fog horns? I have a rechargeable one and yup, it works. Good luck all, don't sweat it though, even if someone has your number they can't do much with it. Thanks for reading this and I hope I've helped today

I received a call here in Manitoba from this number at roughly 10:30am. Same deal. Car warranty. When I pushed 1 to speak to a representative he asked me for my car model and license number. I told him that he would have to explain in more detail what he was calling about and then he slammed the phone down.

From what I know about call centres, having worked for TELUS, it's impossible to slam the phone down as call centre employees have head sets. Also from my experience working at TELUS, I am familiar with a few different cases similar to this one with calls coming in the middle of the night and some harassment.

Just beware of handing out personal info.

Just got called from them, no message. Sounds like I didn't miss anything important, heh.

Just called by this number. Crap about a car warranty!

Get this call often...Just by an air horn and keep it beside the phone..You'll know when to use it!!

In Manitoba. Today (Apr. 22) I got the same call about the warranty...I thought maybe the registration on our vehicle had run out so I selected the operator. A man came on and asked me the make of my vehicle and year when I told him that more than one person here has a vehicle he said let's start with you. My reply, I don't have any in my name but my son & husband do. It was then that he hung up. I immediately called my husband and he said it was a scam & that next time if I decide to talk to the operator find out who is calling before saying anything.

They call and they call. They never leave a messge.  Can anyone explain who these people are.  The never ending, no messege calls are becoming harrassment.

Called Alberta Today.
Same scam.  Loud annoying voice saying this is my 2nd warning about the experation of my vehicle warranty.
Hung up.

SCAM

I received a phone call from them about updating my truck warranty. Asked for my credit card # ect, but wouldn t give me theres. SCAM SCAM

scam!! Make and model of my car for extended warranty??   I don't even have a car

Got a call from them again today....tried to call back just minutes after i got the call and it says the number has been disconnected or no longer inservice.

got a call today,calgary

I have received this call twice. I am in Medicine Hat alberta. The last call was today. I didn't pick up though

17:12 This number just called, didn't pick up. They must be targeting Nova Scotia today!

This was an automated message stating the warrany on my vehicle has expired and the this was my last chance to renew it.   No vehicle specified so it was a pretty generic message.  No company name given either.

area code is from Denver