I have a cell phone provided to me because I am disabled and on extraordinarily limited income. It is a very limited service, but allows me a phone. The provider is Assurance Wireless, a division of Virgin Mobile. I use it for only a couple of local calls each week.

Today, 6/24/11, I was called many times by numbers with long distance area codes. Only one left a voicemail message, all the rest just disconnected. I answered the last call, and after they answered my "hello" with one of their own, they just hung up. The message left from the call before was a recording saying I had been pre-approved for an $800 loan, and to go to some website of a payday loan business. Sorry, but I was angry and deleted the voicemail and I didn't memorize the URL.

It seems to me that these sharks have gained access to the cell phone numbers of vulnerable people on limited income and they know dang well we are likely to jump at an offer like this. The low amount of $800 seems just as targeted and almost believable. I think either Assurance or Virgin has been hacked or they have sold these numbers to payday loan creeps.

Here are the Caller IDs of the calls so far:

752-314-9119
629-931-4911
820-654-8921
258-331-4917
422-274-7815
302-722-4674
268-331-4917
372-331-8598
267-350-9254

I apologize for posting one entry per number, but I want to warn others by getting each of these numbers in the 800notes database.