If you have an iPhone and are receiving these calls, go into you received calls, click the info button beside the number and block the caller.  Simple and sweet.

Legit company. However treats their employees like s***. Automatic termination happens all the time their if you don't constantly push the customer

If you want to give them a taste of their own Medicine  here is the Business directors personal cell number 416-471-2224 his name is George Tassis have fun!!!!

Yeah I know somebody who applied for a job there too. He took an intelligence test and scored too high so they wouldn't hire him.

Looks like you scored low enough, though. No surprise actually. You might as well get used to the abuse if you can't get a real job.

This is a fraud campaign currently active in Canada using a series of Iristel VOIP numbers.  The objective is to obtain your credit card number.  If you attempt to "opt out" your number will be confirmed as live and added to a suckers list for repeated future calls.

I worked for this company so for all the people who are saying they wanna give them an earfull its that persons job just like u have a job to do so dont cry about someone calling u when scotia bank is the one releasing ur number to us to call all its customers u people need to relax its a simple thing to pick up the phone and talk like a normal human being and tell them to PLEASE put you on the do not call list.....you people are pathetic just cuz u sit at a desk and dont "bother people" with calling them doesnt make u ne better then anyone else u guys just make our job difficult but its ok cuz when u people freak out when we call u just get laughed at when u hang up and talk about how crazy the last caller was so u really only make urselfs look like the idiots....its a phone call not the end of the world calm down so call scotia and freak out on them we dont get a list of numbers its automated in the system and the computer dials out the numbers.....u people need to grow up and realize not every job is the most pleasurable....especially being a telephone sales agent....so pathetic!

It is a call center that is outsourced by more then one company, and they don't even ask for your credit card information. Just the spelling of your name, and date of birth.

you are a d***hit

I get a call from this number about 1 week after I purchase something from the pharmacy (Pharmaplus, Shoppers and Rexall, but only if I purchase directly at the pharmacy part).  It is Optima Communications on behalf of Scotiabank trying to sell me "hospital insurance"  offering to pay me up to $200 a day if I am hospitalized.  The insurance doesn't cover you for anything you have been under a doctors care for for the past 2 years.  Buying from a pharmacy looks like you might be buying meds for an illness.  Perhaps they are ambulance chasers?

THIS IS NOT OPTIMA COMMUNICATION OR SCOTIABANK..THEY CLAIM TO BE BUT THEY'RE FRAUDS. DO NOT GIVE OUT ANY INFO>. I CONTACTED THE POLICE AND ADVISE YOU ALL TO DO THE SAME

This is a telemarketing fraud that should be reported to the RCMP Anti-Fraud Center immediately:

http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.c ... eportfraud.html

It is not a legitimate company - BEWARE.

They're calling on behalf of company's, they're a 3rd party organization. You just have to ask to be added to their do not call list if they call. That will work with any telemarketer.

416 915 7930
rang like i was calling then laughing then hung up
are you sure rogers and telus are hiring provocateurs

Got call around 3.12 pm. Fricky did not leave the mesaage.

I regularly receive calls from 416-915-7933 and 416-849-0650.  No message is ever left.

Got this call today, and every day for the past week or two.  My husband and I do have a Scotiabank account, but they have never called us for anything, so we don't fit with the pattern others have described.  However, because I work at home, I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize.  Similarly, I don't answer blocked calls or calls that come up as "unknown".  This caller has never left a voice mail either, but does call as late as 9 p.m.est.  Aggravating!

They call me once a week! Defintely Scotiabank. Trying to sell some sort of hospital insurance. They don't take no for an answer.

number keeps calling me and never leaves a message.

Hey Mike...

I understand your frustrations. BELIEVE ME!!! Right now I would rather be doing anything else but bothering people at home....but I have no choice...but thats another story...

When you asked him to be put on the Do Not Call list he was supposed to inform you that it can take up to 31 days to clear your name from all of the systems....did he tell you that? I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the guy...you would think that someone calling you at home during personal time would show a little more compassion then that. If you happen to receive another call just ask to speak to a supervisor and they can take your number off right away.  The thing with that Do Not Call list is if you have an existing relationship with a company they are exempt from it so we are technically not breaking any laws. Also, charities, newspapers and surveys are exempt from the list as well. Trust me, that Do Not Call list is not all it is cracked up to be.  Offshore telemarketers can buy that list for $50 and harass you anytime of the day.  You are better off taking your number off the list and when you do receive calls ask them to put you on the internal Do Not Call or you can even add a service to your home phone (if you are with bell) which blocks telemarketers from calling you.....

Trust me Mike.....I hate telemarketing just as much as you do

They have been calling me exactly the same time every day for awhile, most of the time no message. Last time they said it was tami looking for carol from holiday beach resort . I think it is most likely scotia bank and some sleazy sales method...

get this call all the time.  When I answer, there's never an answer back.  So I don't know who or what the caller is.

This number always calls me on Friday mornings, but never leaves a voice mail.

I usually just disconnect from this number because I'm so sick of them calling me at least three time a week.  They just called again and it's Saturday!!!  They are driving me up the wall, I don't want them to phone here anymore.

Hi Brenda....

Next time you receive a call don't hang up...ask to speak to a supervisor right away because the supervisor will take your number out of the system.

It was an autodialer... I heard the delay before the foreign woman started to talk.  I didn't stay on the line long enough to hear who it was though.

When you call it back it says: "if you dialed this number you've been contacted by optima communications international..."   You can actually leave them a message, but I doubt it would do any good.

514906481 and many others. Multiple calls per day. Nobody answering.

DO NOT EVER PICK UP THE PHONE. Everytime you pick up the phone, the phone companies are making money. 4-7 cents a call. Tens of Thousands of calls a day. Millions of calls per month. Millions of dollars earned. YOU GET THE PICTURE. Profits are down dramatically since the arrival of SKYPE and VOIP.

"No answer" calls are dialled by computers. Computers can dial and complete one call every 30 seconds. 24/7. Computer software is cheap. Profits made are huge, driven by people picking up their phones. Only pick up numbers you recognize, or where the name/company shows on the display. If in doubt, leave it to the answering device. If your answering device picks up the call, THERE IS NO CHARGE.

Don't get fooled by "survey" calls, these are not surveys, just lames at the other end who get hired to dial numbers all day long for peanuts. Often you are dealing with immigrants or students, cheap bottom-of-the-barrel labor. These calls are only about increasing the profit margins for the phone companies. Yes, there are credit card scammers and the likes, unfortunately you will have to learn just as much about who's doing what, in order to keep your phone bills down. The cheapest way to do this, is via the answering machine. Private callers will, in most cases, leave a message. However, the latest phone scams (credit card re-balance, loss-of-weight scams) now use voice driven software, that will engage with your answering machine. THIS STILL WON"T COST YOU A DIME. Plus you can recognize easily the computer generated voice, introducing him or herself with a common first name.

Don't pick up the phone. Save yourself the aggravation.


And don't ever be in doubt about banks calling you. All major banks have the same strict safety policy in place. This policy is published on their website. THEY WILL NOT EVER MAKE UNSOLICITED CALLS OR SEND UNSOLICITED EMAILS. PERIOD. Somebody calls you from a "bank" - you know you're dealing with criminals. Pure and simple. The strategy is always the same. Whether it's computerdriven or man-driven. So forget about your bank calling you. It will not ever happen. Unless, of course, you called your branch, and they are rhen returning your call.

got a call from 1-416-915-7933 that woke me up and got me out of bed. When I answered, nobody responded, it just hung up. I called them back and got Optima Communications or something like that.

My business partner and I filled out an application for a Dun & Bradstreet credit rating and have ever since been plagued with these 416 phone calls!  They say they are calling from Dun & Bradstreet but we keep telling them that were not interested in there promotion and to please stop calling.  It hasn't worked.  Aren't there laws against this type of harrassement?

This number calls us at least every two weeks. Just now, I answered and heard a ring - as if it were alerting a telemarketer. Hung-up immediately.

you guys can b***h all you want but until you tell the person on the other end of the phone DO NOT CALL HERE ANYMORE....we will continue to call