Man with India(n) accent. Wanted me to lie in order to get "free grant money from US Dept. of Education." Said I only had to answer three questions. He had me role play with him to be certain that I answered the questions correctly. He ended up asking seven questions before I hung up. Obviously these are identity thieves. What is worse, I could not hang up on the guy. I had to remove the battery to end the phone call. When I restarted my Droid, the phone number was GONE. I only had part of it memorized and the posts here are very similar to what I experienced. My advice, write down the phone number and try to three-way the call with local,  state, or federal authorities.

They call me 1 to 3 times a day including weekends when I'm sleeping in the morning and teaching at night. I'm on the do not call list but I can't report them because the number shows up as either 4 numbers or 0's. If anyone knows where to go to get them to stop PLEASE post it on here!

I have received many phone calls from places that state they are with these certain college programs. They state that they want to give me more information about school. Most have stopped calling after I told them i was going to report them to the FTC (I think that's the right place. If not, it still scared them from calling me.) My recent phone call was today. It came from the phone number 347-269-4522. The man on the phone said that he wanted to give me more information about school. I told him that I was not interested and not to call me ever again. We got into a heated back and forth battle with words. He finally gave me his name (Sam) and his supervisors name (Mike), both of those I do not believe. Would not give me the phone number to report to proper authorities. He actually had the balls to try and give me my own phone number to call. He eventually hung up on me.

Thirteen minutes later, Sam calls back. Told him that I was going to file a lawsuit against him for harassment. He asked "What is that?"  I just went off on him just for his stupidity. GRRR...

I don't even know where they got my phone number from. All I know is that I do NOT want them to keep calling me. I am frustrated with this issue!

It is a "ring central" number.  People can get these bogus numbers, call a bunch of people (for whatever reason), then turn them off.  So, they won't get any repercussions from their outbound calls.  Right now, the number is not assigned to anyone, so we've missed our chance to find out who it is.

We have been getting calls from these people, who speak mostly foreign accent, for about 2 to 3 months now, on and off once or twice a day. I have repeatedly asked then for their number so I could return their phone call; of course, they hang up on me. I have told them that I have turned them in to the FBI and our MN attorney general, so that has helped with less phone calls from them. I always try to trick them to get more information, but I can never get their number. They have been using 90008 now but yet sometimes it's a long number starting with a V. Hopefully, I can get more out of them so I can write to our attorney general.

College now calls all the time. Even after asking to be removed from their call list. On caller Id it appears as Verizon tech. 90008 but its not.  Jerk faces are harassing me. Even prank calling me. Sometimes hanging up the second I pick up.

I have had the same problem with my Verizon service. I can not block the calls because  there are not enough numbers. The temporary cure is to place this number into your contact list and then put it to silent ring. The calls won't stop, but at least the phone will stop ringing.

Call from 900-08. Person said it is from CollegeNow in California.  I asked for their phone number to get back to them or ask for a supervisor.  Person would not give any information on their side which tells me this is not a legitimate place.  They want to get all your personal information so they can scam you. And, in doing this, they are scamming the actual CollegeNow School and ruining their reputation. Trying to figure out how to report this so that the authorities can get the info on these people as they do for Nigerian Scammers.  This is no doubt another one of their tactics.

On some days, I will get 5-6 calls from College Now within a 30 minute time period. No matter what I say to the guy on the other end he hangs up on me and calls me back 5 minutes later. He leaves voicemails where he says nothing but hello over and over agian. I hope someone can come up with a better way to stop this other than me changing my phone number and soon.

I get between 10 and 15 calls from this person supposedly representing College Now.  The number that shows up is either +90008 or 900-08, the caller is from the subcontinent, and barely speaks English.  I know they have a machine dialing the number, because there is a lag time from the time I answer and say hello, to the time a person actually comes on the line.  I called and put my name on a do not call list twice.  I called my ATT phone provider, this is my cell phone by the way, and I have told this person repeatedly NOT TO CALL MY NUMBER.   Today I let loose a torrent of obscenity which would make a Long Shoremen proud, and screamed at him to stop calling my number... I cannot believe there is nothing that can be done about this invasive, call situation, especially in the light that they are using my cell phone minutes for calls that I STATED CLEARLY THAT I DO NOT WANT THEM TO MAKE.   ATT said the only thing that they could do was to change my number.  WHY CAN'T THEY GET A HOLD OF THESE PEOPLE AND PROSECUTE.   You can bet your life if I WAS MAKING UNWANTED PHONE CALLS, SOMEONE WOULD BE ABLE TO STOP ME.   I am very upset, and I mean vomit upset.  This sickens me to the core.

These are International Telemarketers located somewhere in the Asia area.  They have went beyond harassment and call me EVERYDAY and it starts at 7:00AM EST to 1:00AM.  Some days the calls are between 20 - 30 calls every dam day, but on average they call my home number at least 27 times a day, like today and I am still counting and am currently at #19so far today.  The caller ID displays:  00098, which I finally got a person to finally tell me they worked for College Now and was based out of California.  What have I done?
1. Called the Police, which told me to call my phone provider & that was all they could do.
2. I called my phone provider: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS and only offered me to change my telephone number, but this would be incredibly difficult.  hold on they are calling AGAIN...unreal
3. Contacted every member of my State Legislature, and Federal level as well.

I HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR YOU ALL AND PLEASE HELP ME HELP THESE POLITICIANS PASS SOME LAWS HERE:
I am retired from the US Army and have yet to use my post 9/11 GI Bill benefits which I am going to use in Law School.  Are any of you Veterans and similar to me in getting any sort of Veterans educational assistance?  I am trying to pinpoint how we got our names put on this unreal telemarketing leads list.  PLEASE E-MAIL ME IF YOU SHARE THE SAME SCENARIO AS ME SO WE CAN STOP THIS!!!   terrymduncan@gmail.com

Got a call from this saying he was from College Now for a CAL Grant. He was an Arab/Indian man with a  374 area code. My girlfriend picked up for me, who isn't even applying, and he continued to do his College Now speech, asking her her address, email, and area code ( which were all wrong, according to his records. ) I finally took the phone from her and started talking to him, and he quickly restarted the process with me until I hung up after seeing this thread.

THIS NUMBER KEEPS CALLING ME AND THEY DONT LEAVE A MESSAGE, JUST KEEP CALLING BACK TO BACK.

They called me talking about my college plans. I don't know how they have have all my information, address, email, etc... But I do not want to hear from them again.

Call received at a work place and when answered there is no one responding.  I hanged up.

Getting numerous calls from these morons. All hours of the day. It shows up on caller id as being from Spain. Hope the bulls gore them where it hurts.haha morons.

that happened to me

** some person call me and said something in a foreign language **

I've been getting phone calls from these people for several days know. They just want to steal your information. The weird thing is that they know my name. They need to be reported.

Have been called a few times, never answered any of the calls. I feel if its important they will leave a message. If its important to me, I will call back.

got same call. told them to stop calling but alas they called again. morons. when will they realize we are not stupid

I have been getting calls from this # also. Today at 630 pt WTH?~?~? i thought someone hacked my skype acct and got my cell #, so i typed this number in and found this page. Thanks everyone. ug. these idiots are so effing annoying!~!!!

UPDATE: I JUST FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE FCC AGAINST THIS PHONE NUMBER AND ITS "CARRIER" WHICH CAN BE FOUND FOR FREE ON www.numbersguru.com (they also have an Android app!) ( E FILE) AND GOT A TRACKING NUMBER~~~ let the FEDS sort it out! If enough of us complain......:)

let the govt reverse directory these slimeballs!

we all are its thru a BOT (robotic ) random dialing  system or off legitimate applications we may have made everyone needs to complain to gthe FTC and FCC and get these slimeballs shut down..also complain to th New York Atty General!

I got called also.  The guy had an Indian accent.  I told him he had the wrong number because he asked for someone with the last name Smith.  He said, "No, I do not have the wrong number.  I have the wrong person."  I said, "No.  We have only had this number since March.  You have the wrong number."  He then said, "Then, what am I to do.  He stole my hundred dollars and ran away from the market."  I said, "Learn English."  He was hard to understand.  I then hung up.  I will not answer that number again.

Mine story is the same as everyone else's. They call and don't leave a message. They've only started calling me recently though. I finally added them to my block list, so hopefully this helps...

please block this number it calls me  all the time

i found out the area code is from brooklyn ny. im sure FBI can pin point who these people are. this phone number pops way to many times . how many more people are they going to try and scam before someone does something about it. i didnt recognize the number so i didnt pick up either and of course like everyone else no message was left. up there they go again its ringing with this number. someone who didnt even pronounce my name right. with an accent. i stated to them it is illegal to telemarket on cell phones so he needed to delete this number. he paused and then said something i didnt understand and hung up. may have been sorry his tone wasnt bad but i dont know where they get cell phone numbers from but this is messed up. why would i want to help brooklyn with their education system when i cant even help my own town.when is this gonna stop. i didnt stick around and wait for his response as soon as he pronounced my name wrong i told him to stop calling me.

THIS PERSON KEEPS CALLING ME ASKING FOR A MARGARET. SOUNDS LIKE AN INDIAN MAN AND HE HAS BEEN CALLING FOR ABOUT 6 OR 7 MONTHS. SOMETIMES IT IS A WOMAN WHO CALLS FROM THIS NUMBER TOO. NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I TELL THEM TO STOP CALLING THEY KEEP CALLINH.