survey issue needs to be blocked

when find out it is telemarketer or bill collector I put the number in my phone under billcollector or telemarketer so I know not to answer it and then I can feel comfortable answering other calls, just an ideal where your kids are concerned

This robo caller had continued to called several time today. Last month and the previous month without leaving any message.   We need to change the law change so they will be punished by doing jail time.

This people call me and I call them back and follow their introduction for unscribing call and I do it but they keep calling every day when I still working look like they are trouble maker and they also breaking the law please shurt them down as soon as possible or bring them to justice.

please don't ever ever call me again ok?

You know what? You again the law I follow the intruction on the phone to unsrube call but you keep call me all the time can you please stop f****ng calling me and stay out of my number...

The FTC is having Robocall Summit on October 18th.  For more info go to:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/10/robocalls.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/robocalls

What To Do When You Get an Illegal Robocall; http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/robocalls
1.    Hang Up. Do not press 1 or any other numbers to get off the list.
2.    Consider blocking the number
3.    Report it at http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
4.    Report it at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
Register your phone numbers online at http://www.donotcall.gov or call (888) 382-1222 (must call from # you want removed).

Don't judge our state by one psycho who took every opportunity she could to stick her tongue in George Bush's ear.

Just a note that WCA Subscriber Services is a different scam than the "Lower your credit card interest rate" scams. However they do share the same phone numbers, so who knows if there is some hidden connection.

They claim that you can go to their website and be removed from their calling lists:       wcaconsent
Good luck with that. The bad news is there are thousands of complaints about this company not stopping the calls not to mention the unresolved complaints from the BBB that can't find a legitimate address for the company. All that can be found is a UPS drop box (The UPS Store #4567 -   2643 Gulf Bay Blvd Suite 1560-411, Clearwater, FL 33759) or a virtual office in Las Vegas (Worldwide Commerce Associates, LLC  3651 Lindell Road, Suite D  Las Vegas, NV 89103) with a receptionist answering the phone for multiple non-existent companies.
http://www.virtualofficeslv.com
http://www.bbb.org/west-florida/business-revi ... ter-fl-90107305
http://www.bbb.org/southern-nevada/business-r ... -vegas-nv-82198

Here are some links to their scams:    http://www.itworld.com/internet/118181/beware-free-apple-ipad-scams-facebook
http://www.pcworld.com/article/203946/friends ... pad_events.html
http://consumer.blog.state.ma.us/blog

You are dealing with a company that is owned by a woman in India and registered in Cyprus. If you request to be removed from their calling list and the calls persist then you should continually file complaints with your Attorney Generals office and also file with:
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
If enough people keep complaining then maybe something will get done. The only option is to go after the companies that are outsourcing to overseas boiler rooms.

JACKSON ? The Mississippi Public Service Commission has fined a Nevada company $20,000 for violations of the Mississippi ?No-Call? law and rules associated with enforcing the law.
Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley announced the fine. Presley says the fine was against Worldwide Commerce Associates, LLC of Carson City, Nev.
Presley says Worldwide Commerce Associates violated the law by failing to register and purchase the state?s ?No-Call? list. The company also allegedly called people on the list and used an automated dialing system to communicate with consumers.
The company shall be prohibited from making any calls as a telephone solicitor in Mississippi until the fine is paid in full.

Write your Congressmen and Senators. We need CRIMINAL penalties against the companies that are profiting from these calls. Follow the money, slap them in prison, no one left to outsource to overseas boiler rooms, problem solved.

Registrant:
     REVENUE PATH E-CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED
     Sarita Somani
     IDE Ioannou Court Office No. 203 13 & 15 Gr Afxentiou Str
     Mesa Yeitonia, Limassol 4N CY- 4003
     CY   (Cyprus)
     Phone: +91.2032930242
     Email: sarita@fecdirect.net
588 Domain(s) Use sarita@fecdirect.net As Whois Email       http://www.webboar.com/whois-email/sarita@fecdirect.net
Her Internet hosting service:
Administrative Contact:
    pamei, pouchunlung fecdirect@gmail.com
    FecDirect Pvt Ltd
    Pushpajali Apts
    Flat no 10, Gydney Park
    pune, Maharashtra 411037
    India
    912040072689

It has something to do with a survey

This pisses me off. I never answer numbers I don't know but I always have a shadow of a doubt it could be one of my kids calling because of an emergancy. Thanks to the bottom feeders that do this crap we pay for f*ing phones that we can't answer when a call comes in. May they all rot in the worst kind of hell they believe in, f*cktards. And what the hell good does reporting do? This s*** has been going on for years and in the grand scheme NOTHING is getting done to stop these a$$holes. Call a sentor..ha ha. I live in the same state as that piece of nut job Michelle Bachmann if that gives any idea of what our politicians in this state are like.

Am I sniveling?...you f*ing BETCHA! Because that's all that can be done about this!!! UGH!!!!!

Bad news. You are dealing with a company that is owned by a woman in India and registered in Cyprus.
http://www.bbb.org/west-florida/business-revi ... ter-fl-90107305
Registrant:
     REVENUE PATH E-CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED
     Sarita Somani
     IDE Ioannou Court Office No. 203 13 & 15 Gr Afxentiou Str
     Mesa Yeitonia, Limassol 4N CY- 4003
     CY   (Cyprus)
     Phone: +91.2032930242
     Email: sarita@fecdirect.net
588 Domain(s) Use sarita@fecdirect.net As Whois Email   http://www.webboar.com/whois-email/sarita%40fecdirect.net
Her Internet hosting service:
Administrative Contact:
    pamei, pouchunlung fecdirect@gmail.com
    FecDirect Pvt Ltd
    Pushpajali Apts
    Flat no 10, Gydney Park
    pune, Maharashtra 411037
    India
    912040072689

People should continually file complaints with their Attorney Generals office and also file with:
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
If enough people keep complaining then maybe something will get done. The only option is to go after the companies that are outsourcing to overseas boiler rooms.

Just got to calls from 651/689/1431...didn't answer...thanks for the info

This number is being spoofed. It belongs to an innocent company that has nothing to do with WCA Subscriber Services.

Who the suspects are:
http://www.bbb.org/west-florida/business-revi ... ter-fl-90107305
http://complaintwire.org/complaint/ipzhHRymJA ... gon-robo-dialer
http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/fred-accuardi-and-illegal-telemarketing/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011 ... -companies.html
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/st ... vcapId=23957705
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/cox-353170-agency-companies.html
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0923193/index.shtm
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/29/business/la-fi-lazarus-20111129
http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22278
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/debt/client_services_inc.html
http://www.scambook.com/report/view/71722/Ambrosia-Web-Design-Complaint-71722-for-$998.00
http://onthespotblog.com/the-hunt-for-rachel-at-cardholder-services/
http://www.scamchecker.com/content/cardmember-services-another-scam
http://www.state.ia.us/government/ag/latest_n ... fundraiser.html

How it works:
http://blog.usa.gov/post/30393077932/answering-your-questions-about-robocalls
http://onthespotblog.com/on-the-spot-blog-stirs-up-rachel-at-cardholder-services/
http://onthespotblog.com/tag/cardholder-services/
http://complaintwire.org/complaint/ipzhHRymJA ... gon-robo-dialer
http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/fred-accuardi-and-illegal-telemarketing/

People should continually file complaints with their Attorney Generals office and also file with:
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
If enough people keep complaining then maybe something will get done.

The calls are being made from outside the US however most of the call centers (where you actually talk to someone after pressing 1) are in the US and the companies making the money from the scam are owned by people in the US. They will charge thousands of dollars on your credit card without performing any services.

Many of these calls are coming from Costa Rica and India and they are using spoofed (false) numbers, which in itself is illegal. They do cold calling for or sell the leads to numerous companies in this country and they know that what they are doing is illegal. Tomorrow this same number may be selling Cruises, Timeshares or Security Systems but if you follow the money it usually ends up in the hands of an American LLC. Keep complaining to the FTC and FCC, and start bugging our politicians to pass laws to make it punishable in criminal court instead of handing out fines that they don't pay. Another course of action is to contact phone companies to find out why they won't block spoofed numbers. With today's technology that should be an easy thing to do, unless they are somehow profiting from the use of their systems.

The criminals behind this operation aren't going to pay attention to you asking to be removed from their list. Their calls cost them nothing and they can make a million of them a day so they have no intention of ever removing someone. When you press a key to talk to them all that is accomplished is to verify that they have a working number.
Unfortunately blowing an air horn or whistle doesn't work either. Their headset have noise dampeners plus they are expecting it. However with that said if it makes you feel better then by all means give it a shot.

For anyone thinking of using Special Information Tones (or as they're called in the industry SIT tones) to fake a non working phone number, they won't work. Since around 2001-2002, the costs of digital business lines have dropped dramatically, along with Voice over IP (Internet) telephone service. Neither of these use the SIT tones as the call information is carried separate from the audio.
This separate call information tells the calling party digitally if the call was answered, busy, voice mail, forwarded, rejected, etc. This renders SIT tones useless. Also the TeleZapper products that used to be on the market used this method as well, and were rendered ineffective for the same reasons.
It is also through this separate call information message that the spoofed caller ID information is transmitted.

Robocalls are illegal unless you have given them prior permission in writing (not worded into some small print contract from a 3rd party) and are absolutely illegal to a cell phone.  The Telephone Consumer Protection Act permits individuals who have received certain unlawful telemarketing, such as junk faxes or telemarketing calls, to sue the violator in state courts where they may be awarded up to $1500 for each violation.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/robocalls/  
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/07/robocall.shtm
http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/TCPA-Rules.pdf

Check here first to see if it is one of their phone numbers:
http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com
Pacific Telecom Communications Group
Follow JD's recommendations in the blog and stop them at the source.

Many of the disposable numbers come from Pacific Telecom Communications Group and they are currently under investigation and in the midst of various lawsuits. (The principles involved have been part of actions by the FCC under other business names).These businesses have ripped people off for millions of dollars, yet have paid only a couple of thousand dollars in fines. The only way to stop them is to throw them in prison for a few years to make this criminal activity less attractive.

The Oregon Public Utilities Commission has revoked Pacific Telecom's certificate to provide telecom services in Oregon.

The Indiana Attorney General?s Office filed lawsuits against:
Consumer Credit Group and Proactive Planning Solutions of Arizona for violating Indiana?s Do Not Call Law and Auto-Dialer Act known as the robo-call law. Both companies violated the Credit Service Organization Act and Deceptive Consumer Sales Act by not obtaining $25,000 surety bonds with the state and collecting money upfront without performing any services.
Debt Zero of California for collecting money up front, failing to provide services or a refund and operating without a $25,000 surety bond.
Clear One Advantage of Maryland and Credit Arbitrators of Texas for violating the Credit Service Organization Act and the Deceptive Consumer Sales Act by not obtaining the required surety bonds.
http://www.in.gov/activecalendar/EventList.as ... ation_id=107077

Arkansas sues robocallers:
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/aug/0 ... arketing-firms/
Missouri sues robocallers:
http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/236974-kost ... nies-over-calls

Proof that current laws mean nothing to these scum suckers. Civil action by the FTC against such criminals is totally ineffective. These criminals need to be charged with Federal Felonies and subjected to significant jail time. All of those involved know that they are violating FTC regulations. The FTC levies huge fines, then rescinds them based on inability to pay. The FTC settles for the minimal cash on hand, and enjoins them from future telemarketing. The criminals sign off, then go right back to business as usual. These same people under different companies have been sued in the past and have only paid a minimal fine. Here are just a few:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/12/roycox.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/06/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/03/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0923193/111219roycoxcmpt.pdf
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/donotcall/mediacenter.html
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/afl_financial.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/voiceblaze.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/03/voicetouch.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/robocalls.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/12/robocall.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/09/twi.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/02/robocall.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/robocalls2.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/12/jpm.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/voicetouch.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/11/sonkei.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/05/ams.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/01/khalilian.shtm

Write your Congressmen and Senators. We need CRIMINAL penalties against the companies that are profiting from these calls. Follow the money, slap them in prison, no one left to outsource to overseas boiler rooms, problem solved. Since they are operating across borders it should become a federal felony and should be handled by the FBI under the RICO Act.

This number calls me daily and leaves no message.  They  my private cell number.   It's so annoying.

Please visit this link here for our formal statement:  http://www.ovationcomm.com/index.php?content=phone

Two numbers, this one and a 651-689-1418, are the same group of scammers. I blocked the 651-689-1418 number about 8 weeks ago then low and behold they start calling from the 651-689-1431 number. Keep reporting numbers everyone and hopefully we can stop this non-sense.

To whom it may concern, I am the owner of Ovation Communication at the 866 number in the post and I can assure you we are not placing any phone calls.  Our toll free number can only receive inbound calls, not place them, so it appears someone is spoofing the number.  We are in fact a small training skills company and there is no scam.  We do not purchase lists of newly registered companies or perform any kind of direct marketing like you are suggesting.  We primarily conduct business with Fortune 500 companies through our personal network of business contacts.  

I will of course try to put an end to this from our side, but we do not have many options to prevent someone from spoofing our phone number.  I apologize to anyone being harassed.  I have certainly been the recipient of these calls and I personally use this site to verify numbers as well.  

Here is another post about a company with a similar name to ours in Minnesota: http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-651-256-6185

SCAM Posing as WCA something, Ovation Communications,calls you with auto-dialer and when your phone picks up, YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENTERED in some bulls**t contests or something...  I called number back and got a message that says I am a subscriber!!!!
Then I attempted to "un-subcribe." WATCH YOUR PHONE BILL and BANK ACCTS!  I will be reporting to AG in MN.

This number keeps calling me at work.  When i answer there is no one there and the call goes away.  No message is ever left.

Also getting random calls to my cell, but leaves no message. This junk group, Ovation Communications, is some sort of business training group for communications skills! Yet the robo-caller just calls to harrass people with no message. I think because I registered a new biz recently, that they use public records to reach out to new owners for training services from them. What a joke. I called 866-202-0422, their main contact number, to tell them to remove me from their lists.  P.S. Their website looks pretty "scam-like."

This number has been calling my cell phone at least 2-3 times per week for the last few weeks.  They don't leave a message, and it's annoying.

called. no message. Number is based out of Stillwater through Ovations Communications.  Did a little research on the number.

Called left no message