We got the guy

Received 17 calls from these losers this morning.  This company is a joke.  Do not answer their calls or give them one dime.  I never dealt with them or anyone they are collecting for.  They say I owe them $300 from payday loans.  I have Never even entered into a payday loan office.  They don't care that they have me confused with someone else.  They just make the same threats they are making to other posts.
Do Not answer their calls.  You never have to pay them.  They violate every Fair Debt Collection Laws that you can imagine.  Further, I contacted the Better Business Bureau of New York. Call them yourself and complain - (212) 533-6200.
These losers will not even give me their alleged names.
Do not pay them.  They cannot do anything to your credit!

They just called me, put me on hold so I hung up, then called back from a blocked number.  Said she was doing a survey for a college project in marketing.  Really looking to see if our company wants to buy promotional products.

They called again and my mom picked up, luckily I was home and told her to hang up and I finally said mom hang up it's a scam.

The lady said my parents name and then said I'm calling on behalf of comcast.  We hung up then.

Right after that another number came up as 800 860 0412.  On the caller id it says 800 number.

This is getting agitating, because I've been getting a lot of these calls.

These people are driving me nuts.  They call late at night and leave no message.  I have reported this number to the Do Not Call Registry and I still get calls from these jerks.

recieved a call from this  number today at around 7:26pm on march 3 2009. I picked up pwas saying hello, however the person that was on the other end said nothing, but i could hear them breathing on the line...kinda dumb. These ppl need a life.

I have received more than a few calls from this # over a period of time. Most recenlty yesterday from a girl who appears to be very unstable,pathetic and have a lots of time to waste.

I received a call from the Duct Cleaning company. A man with a south asian accent is always the one who calls. recently he has started calling from the number 647 478 3163

They said that they were calling regarding 80% discount at any store services, and want to know my name , I knew that it was a scam!!

Cheats

Do they keep notes on who sounded like they answered last time?
Why hang up without saying anything?
What a waste of time.
What is their motivation?
Are they somehow making money?
Do they get the occasional dummy who gives them money?
Or are they insane?
I don't understand.

i got a call just earlier today, a person claims to be some sort of mob from my country (taiwan) saying they have 2 brothers who are here in CANADA that need money to go back to the country. He asked for $20,000 CAD so they can go back.
Even harassed me that if I dont help out.
Blood will be shed
pfft
gimme a break
economy is bad and people are trying every possible way to make money

Phone number is being linked to any local service provider. It is a Skype VOIP number and is untraceable.  Any person with internet access can call via Skype and have this number show up on the call display. Contact your service provider and have this number blocked from calling you. Only solution thus far.

I a really strange call from them. I actually thought the call came from someone I knew. A guy kept telling me not to get mad and that he was thinking about me for weeks. He was breathing very heavily, it was hard to understand him but he had a chinese accent. I kept asking who they were but they wouldn't tell me, I wasted 11 mins in total listening to them. Then when I hung up they kept calling me so I had to turn off my cell. I don't know what the purpose of their call was, but it's so EVIL. Got me down for the rest of the day until I googled this number.

they called me a mutated freak......
not lying and they knew my name

The reason you are unable to call back is that each of these callers is actually caller from a real number but they are Primus customers, so their real number actually gets re-routed through one of many Primus main numbers.

My father has Primus and whenever he calls me the caller ID shows one of the many Primus numbers, usually I get 416-646-3601, but I have also seen others.

So basically if you signed up with Primus today as your phone provider you too could make calls randomly to people and they would get a Primus # on their call display.

It is so frustrating and Primus should not be allowed to mask the caller ID number.

They called me this morning and I didn't pick up. When I called back, it's always busy.

Collecting on behalf of Canadian TIRE...Collection company!!

They called me this morning and I answered.... Thank you for calling the Royal Canadian Mounted Police how I can direct your call…
They hung up and never called again …ahahhaha

CALL ME AND ABUSED

This is seriously annoying, today I got a call from +40555600842 on my cell phone at 11:09, I was asleep, luckily with my ringer on very low, obviously I didn't wake up to answer it, at 11:10 and 11:11 I got calls from a private caller, then an unknown number at 11:12, at 11:14, our friend at 416-646-3601 called, and then at 11:15, a caller from 662-505-2872, I finally woke up at 11:18 when another private caller called. At that time I looked at my phone and saw all the missed calls, no messages though. How do these people manage to find my phone number, and why do they feel that calling 7 times in 7 minutes is going to get a response?
I tried to trace the numbers, the unknowns and privates didn't work out, but the first call was from a caller calling through Romtelecom in Romania, but calling through the provider from outside of the country. I literally don't know any person or have any connection to anything remotely Romanian. The area is Caras-Severin, which includes Transylvania. Perhaps it's Dracula.
The next number that came up, the 662 number originated from Mississipi or Memphis, Tennessee. I'm a Tennessee Titans fan, but otherwise I have no link to either of these places either.
Finally, of course our favourite caller, the one at 646-3601, called in between.

Has anyone received a REAL phone call from any of these numbers?

seems to be a calling card number

just hit *55 it traces the call, call police and file an harrassment complaint. Also write every number that calls I know it costs but if police (toronto) are brought in all their records are opened.

Its either a skype number or calling card number. Got a call today and this number came up and I didnt answer. It was my brother calling from Afghanistan as he is in the Air Force. He left a message. Boy do I feel like an idiot for not answering!

I keep getting calls from this creepy guy. He breathes heavily and says his name is Chris when I ask him. He calls at all hours of the night/day at least twice a week. He called me at 3:30am last night and I am getting really annoyed.

If this is a Primus or Skype number like some people here are saying, then it could be anyone, anywhere.

I just got a call from this number and the person was like "HELLO, do you speak Chinese?", no joke.

Needless to say I hung up.

I tried calling it back and it was a dial tone, as though the # didn't exist!

When I pick up they speak Mandarin and then hang up.

same problem same technics but they knew who i am i guess or maybe this number is usually used for scams. and they also call my friend to montreal by this number. i think it's simply hackers who gots nothin to do. but they can see the names of our numbers i guess so they got a little idea about us before calling.

Does anybody have any idea of how to get rid of unsolicited calls once and for all.

Lately I don't clear up my messages so there is no room in the voice mailbox for new messages, or I just deactivate the mailbox, I have call display, I later decide who I will back.

Sometimes I also set the mail box to zero rings and then the phone goes automatically to my voicemail which announces to the caller that the mailbox belonging to ---- is full, please try again later.

I'm having so much fun without a phone, maybe we can go back to actually talking to our friends in person and screw all the technology that seems to just brings us more problems.

What do you think? Maybe then the phone companies would really sells us features that really worked and they wouldn't sell our numbers?

Primus Canada for my home phone. Calling me to remind me to change my credit card which expires in a month.