This telephone number belongs to Pacific Telecom Communications Group.  They are a public utility who's business involves facilitating illegal telemarketing calls in violation of 16 C.F.R. §310.3(b) of the Federal Telemarketing Sales Rule.

For more information about the people behind this unsolicited call, go here:  http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com



If you want to stop these unsolicited telemarketing calls, PLEASE send a complaint to Washington State regulators about these illegal calls from Pacific Telecom's phone numbers:

Washington Attorney General Online Complaints:  https://fortress.wa.gov/atg/formhandler/ago/ComplaintForm.aspx

Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission Online Complaints:  http://www.utc.wa.gov/consumers/Pages/ConsumerComplaintForm.aspx

*DON'T TAKE THE SURVEY, IF YOU TAKE THE SURVEY ON THE PHONE THEY WILL KNOW YOU HAVE A *GOOD* NUMBER*
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Caribbean Cruise Line POSING AS A POLITICAL CALL.

Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc., Port of Palm Beach, 301 Broadway, Suite 101B, Riviera Beach, FL 33404
Toll Free 1-800-221-8200, Monday ? Friday 9 AM till 10 PM

also part of the scam...

The Berkley Group, Inc.
(954) 564-0264 - 3015 N Ocean Blvd,, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308

Signup for the Potential Lawsuit Here
http://www.shulaw.com/About-Us/Investigationsons-of-America/

independent survey group also called me from 971-208-9947

Please report these calls to the Washington and Oregon Attorney Generals Offices ... this appears to be some group operating out of or using phone lines or cells in Western Washington State and Northwestern Oregon region requesting personal and credit card information for bogus cruise or port fees (most likely a scam to defraud or for identity theft purposes ... definitely not a legit operation).

This telephone number belongs to Pacific Telecom Communications Group.  They insist that they do not initiate illegal telemarketing calls, however they are involved in managing the calling lists for their "3rd party contractors" who make the telemarketing calls.  

If you want to contact Pacific Telecom, send your complaints and removal requests to F Antone Accuardi:
Interlaw@justice.com
legal@pacifictelecommunications.com
Office: 503-223-7747
Cell:   971-404-4185

This number belongs to Pacific Telecom's Washington State telephone numbers, so send your regulatory complaints here:

Washington Attorney General Online Complaints:  https://fortress.wa.gov/atg/formhandler/ago/ComplaintForm.aspx

Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission Online Complaints:  http://www.utc.wa.gov/consumers/Pages/ConsumerComplaintForm.aspx



For more information, go here:  http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com/

This number called me when I was vacationing in Rome - 2 am in the morning.  I was beyond pissed to find it is a Robo number.  Since then, I continue to get these "survey" calls

Got a call on 5/22/12 from this number.  Did Not answer.  Seem to be getting a lot of spam calls from the 360 area code in the last 2 weeks.  Haven't answer any of them.

Pacific Telecom Communications Group
12228 Venice Blvd. Suite 559
Los Angeles, CA 90066
(360) 328-8000  (only an answering machine)

Principals: Steve F. and Estela Hamilton:  (310) 895-0574 (You'll get an answering machine mentioning Pacific Telecom Communications Group)

email: steve.f.hamilton@gmail.com

Information on this scam is readily obtainable over the Internet:

From: http://www.scaminformer.com/?search=pacific+telecom+communications

Pacific Telecom Communications Pacific Telecom Communications Group Universal Card Services Scamming telemarketers Los Angeles, California 25th of May, 2011 by User408389 This company provides telephone services for two layers of hidden companies, that refuse to abide by federal regulations regarding telemarketing. They have refused to stop calling (though I am already on the do not call list). They have refused to provide any of their information as required by law when asked. They are calling with an autodialer, and have a number of hidden companies so that they can continue doing business.

Pacific Telecom Communications Group Card Services  

First, they ignore do not call registry. Next, by registering as a phony telephone company in Washingon, Oregon & California, they control the following telephone blocks of exchanges:

206 496-xxxx (fax machines or modems answer)
253 246-8xxx
253 382-9xxx
360 328-8xxx
360 474-3xxx
360 529-6xxx
425 390-8xxx
425 658-8xxx
425 953-8xxx
503 457-1xxx


From: http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/5039028252/5

This seems to be the parent company that is originating all these robocalls.

PACIFIC TELECOM COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ID# 8500                
INDUSTRY: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
12228 VENICE BLVD STE 559,

LOS ANGELES CA 90066
(213) 825-1100    

COMPETITIVE PROVIDER
Certificate GRANTED on 2/16/2010  in docket CP 1468   Order No. 10-055

Statewide Local exchange authority.

Statewide Inter Exchange authority: Private Line (point-to-point), Switched (toll)

Caller: Card Member Services

Pacific Telecom Communications Group
dba Pacific Telecommunications Group, Inc.
Estela Hamilton, President
12228 Venice Blvd, Suite 559
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Phone: 213-825-1100
Fax: 213-995-9821

Now 360-328-8000

Owned by a Steve and Estela Hamilton  (310) 895-0574

STARTEX, LLC Single Location > 3721 OCEAN VIEW AVE, LOS ANGELES, CA

From: http://www.tillamookor.gov/publicnotices.html

"Nuisance phone calls not originating in Tillamook County
Police here have been fielding complaints from all over the United States about harassing calls from a telemarketer with a 503 area code phone number.

Tillamook Police Chief Terry Wright said complaints have been coming for about three months.

Even though the calls have been traced to a 503 number, Wright said, they are not originating in Tillamook County or anywhere else in Oregon.

The number - (503) 457-1034 - is registered to Pacific Telecom Communications Group Inc., a telemarketing company in Los Angeles, according to the website for the Oregon Public Utility Commission.

According to another website, Scaminformer.com, Pacific Telecom Communications Group provides telephone services for "two layers of hidden companies that refuse to abide by federal regulations regarding telemarketing."

A number of complaints posted online about calls from that number say recipients are asked questions of a medical nature. A Google search of the phone number turned up an online pharmacy that does not give its location or phone number and can only be contacted by sending an email through the website.

Scaminformer.com said similar complaints have been lodged with authorities in Montana about calls emanating from a phone number with a 406 area code.

According to Wright, no complaints have been received by his department from Tillamook County residents. He added that local law enforcement agencies have no jurisdiction in the matter.

The police chief urged those who have received harassing phone calls from telemarketers to contact the Federal Trade Commission at (877) 382-4357 or online at www.ftc.gov and file a complaint."

Good luck!  Only if enough people file informal complaints at http://www.fcc.gov/complaints, is there a chance of putting these scumbags out of business.

Thanks.

P.S. If you get these guys calling from the exchanges listed above, please cut and paste this information to the comments on those numbers.  With them having thousands of numbers, this is going to take a community effort to get the FTC off their duff!

I'm on the donotcall.gov list and these people call my cell non-stop.  I do not answer.

this is full scam 4 total calls from same system, under pacifictel, yahoo, po america, and latest one is afforablevacci, and everytime they have been reported to dnc registry EVERYONE NEEDS TO REPORT THESE GUYS ON THE DNC WEBSITE NOT JUST HERE, can bi*** all you want but if we dont hit the right place it doesnt count, this is just a community post not the gove site

I get a call a day from13605296901 and 13605296963 and I want it to stop now.  This is stupid that these people can keep on bugging me and the government won't do s***!

Just called the 360-529-6901 number back and, like someone above said, a recording said, if I want to be permanently removed from their call list, to press 1.  I did and was told thank you, I've been removed.  Hope it works!

253-382-9978
360-529-6901
360-529-6945

these are all the same company. Any time you click one to remove yourself, they then call you back on a different number. Its absolutely ridiculous. Something about Ann from political opinions of america? Either way, I'm tired of them calling me because they always call super early in the morning. I wish there was a way to stop this scam.

I cannot emphasize this enough ... report them!

We all need to be very diligent in reporting each and every one of these scam calls right away.  The crooks are spoofing lots of different numbers, but they all need to be reported.

When they call, hang up.  Report them.  Do not press any number 'to be removed' because you are only confirming that yours is a real number to their auto-dialer.

Do not press any number to speak to a representative because they are con artists who will steal your credit card and other personal information.  If you ask them to stop calling, they will only laugh at you or curse at you.  Plus you have confirmed that yours is a real number and they will call you even more.

No.  Hang up and report them immediately.

The only things about Obama that are relevant to this web site are:

 1. His lax enforcement of the DNC list law.

 2. His call for companies to set up telemarketing operations near military bases to employ the spouses of active duty servicemen. Apparently, Obama sees nothing wrong with telemarketing, which is about as out of touch with the American people as you can get.

First of all, Babs in NC and everyone else, please don't answer a call when you're driving. All of the evidence clearly shows that it is more dangerous than drunk driving, even if it's hands-free, which makes no real difference. Killing someone in an auto accident is something you'll never really recover from emotionally.

Secondly, surveys do not offer gifts for participating. That would bias the survey. Note that they say there will be a few little charges with that free cruise. That's where they scam you.

Thirdly, you don't have to put your cell phone number on the DNC list. The DNC is for landline phones only. The law prohibits ALL telemarketers from calling cell phones, period. If a telemarketer is calling you on your cell phone, 100% guarantee it is a scam. Unfortunately, the US is one of the very few countries where cell phone users have to pay for incoming calls.

Getting on the DNC reduces, but does not totally eliminate the number of telemarketing you get.

There are 2 problems. One is the exemptions: for so-called charities, for political campaigns, and for surveys, which unfortunately you can never trust because many of them are pretexting or phishing calls.

The other exemption is for criminal organizations, who are calling illegally, but being criminals, don't mind breaking the DNC law, esp. given the federal government's lax enforcement. (This call is a scam.)

A further problem is that Obama recently said he wants the spouses of active duty servicemen to find employment as telemarketers, apparently totally unaware of how the great majority of Americans feel about telemarketing and seeing nothing wrong with pests and scam artists.

Came up Yahoo for me, too.

Suuuurrrrre, I'll answer THAT call. NOT.

Just got another call from Independent Survey and Sarah, not sure who the C**T is but this is the second this weel to a cell phone,  been on the Do Not Call list since it was started, keep updating and renewing, but the calls keep coming, does that Freaking list do any dam good, if not then we need to take matters into our own hands,  anyone know where these people are baed out of,  i have no problem paying them an in person visit.

And screw the FBI and the rest of you lazf federal mother F*****s if you dont want to do the job we are paying you for, do the job and stop the freaking calles when reported, pull their numbers ASAP

unwanted call and text

Two days in a row I got these mystery calls and they hang up. It looks like they have a large block of 360-529-69XX

same thing - this number keeps coming up on my phone but I'm on a no call list.  How can these be stopped?

I do not know who this number (360-529-6901) belongs to so I did not answer. They did not leave a message.I too am on a "No Call" list. How do we stop these calls?

I also get unwanted calls from this number.  I just push the on button then the off button to keep from hearing the phone ringing.  It is quite annoying....but know nothing that anyone can do to stop these unwanted calls.  Hopefully sooner or later they will take me off their call list.

This number came up as Yonk Yonk on my caller id....
They hang up when I answer.
I called back and they say it's for an "expired" political survey....
1.  It could actually be a political survey...which "votes" their way the moment you answer the phone...  Very shady but quite probable.
2.  It could be a sleazy way of getting around the do not call list......
3.  When you call back it could be logging your number to a different system so they can put you on a list of people who actually answer their phones AND call back....  So they can further harass you later...under some other unknown BS number....

I have received 3 of these calls - when I answer they hang up . When you call back the recorded message says it is for a survey that is now closed.

Daniel,
thanks...I'd consider this doing everybody else a 'solid'...
reporting them to their ISP is the closest thing you can do to 'hit them where it hurts'...maybe they're limited as to choice for ISP in their area, and they'll give up and move to another seedy roadside hotel.
I got one call from them the other day, then one from a nearly identical number (only last-4 different) today...it's a group that will also be sued by Yahoo...aka 'Yonk Yonk' (todays number--360-529-6912--maybe they've already been subpoenaed by Yahoo!
Makes me want to hate watching 'Workaholics'...but I can't stop!
HA!

keep getting calls from this number telling me i will get an all expense paid vacation if i take a brief survey.

Another message board also ID'd their address as
821 Dock Street in Tacoma, Washington

Here is their website
http://www.independentsurveygroup.org/about_us.aspx

If anyone out there has the skilz to shut these calls down, you would be doing all of us a big favor