I recently started getting 3-8 calls day on my prepay cell phone from the number 800-868-1875. I've been ignoring the calls because there is no response when I answer the call or attempted to return the call. It is very annoying. I live in California and they call during the week and weekend and at late hours.  Is there anything I can do?

Continues to call after being asked to stop. Claims I have won $1,000.
Wants my bank account no. Everyone who calls can hardly speak English.
Sounds as though the call is being routed through India. After you tell
them not to call, they call back immediately and you can hear laughing
in the background. Even after threating to sue them, they continue to call. Why can't anything be done about these phone scams? Yesterday I
received 8 calls from this co. who calls themselves United Lending Corp.

Chad, you are not alone!  I feel so stupid - I've been scammed by at least 3 online "opportunities" in the past two years!!  I actually purchased a website from these people, charged to US Lending, aka Smart advertising Solutions, They contacted me under the name of Image Incentives.  And sole me the DEAD website: http://swreunionspromotions.com AND requested that the word "promotion" be in the title in order FOR search engines to pull up!!  Well, they don't in either case!!

Whoever they are, they are ALL guilty as far as I'm concerned!  If their names keep being linked together, they are all making money selling DEAD websites and THEN Charging $4,000 to create a "Press Release" to market said DEAD Website!!!  Mind you, I only paid $200+ (which was too much then) for the website, that's when they hit you with the $4,000 request to market your site by providing a Press Release to drive traffic to that DEAD website they just sold you.

I said no way and I haven't heard from them since!!!!!  I have also made NO $$ from the site as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft search engines don't even Recognize, which makes it DEAD!!  There is no hope of changing this situation either - because WE as owners, do not have access to changing, adding, or adjusting the Meta Content or Meta Tags in order for search engines to pull up JUST the Home Page of their websites (which Google, the largest search engine with 62% of the market, does for free!)

I happened to learn this information from another company who took me to several sites to learn all of the above about Google for FREE!!  Ladies and gentlemen who have these DEAD websites from Image Incentives, or Smart Advertising Solutions, US Lending, and whoever else is selling them, please visit: http://visible.net and they Might be able to help you actually earn money with your site - but I don't know how much they are charging because I don't have ANYmore money to invest further in the DEAD site that I have ended up being SCAMMED into buying and duped into believing their "ready made business" was legitimate.

By the way, I think the only reason the harrassing phone calls from the numbers listed above aren't "people" calling, those may be from animated calling machines that are programmed to dial several numbers - and when the First person/number is answered, it hangs up on all the other numbers it has called.  That I found out about on my own.

I hope this information helps someone else out there...I wish I had the intelligence to Look Up a Company BEFORE I buy into their "too good to be true" claims!  I am learning as I go.  What else can I do?

Thank you also, for leaving your information and Michael, especially for leading the investigation.  Your posts have helped me...we'll see what the future brings.  God Bless and Best Wishes,

Elisa

who are theese people they keep calling me very early no on leaves a message or they will call about 100 am in the morning i mean theeses people nuts .....

My call was from 900-968-1875... i screwed up and while not thinking gave too much info and now i am in the middle of changing all my checking information... i've been scammed by united lending corp.

800-968-1875 caller keeps calling my sisters house asking for me. I dont even live there. When she asked for a number to call them back, they hang up.

I also received this call today on my cell phone (after getting an "unidentified" number a few times when I didn't pick up).  Mine was from a certian Martin Jude, employee no. 4268 also with Unified Services, also offering a 1000 online shopping spree and a 3-day vacation package.  The personal information--name, badge no., etc-- was offered up before I could ask.  He had a heavy Indian accent and plowed right over my "not interested" protests such that eventually he thought I'd agreed to the charge.  We got around to him asking first for the check number I intended to use to send the money, I said I didn't have my checkbook (true).  Then for an account number, which I refused to give out over the phone.  He said "have a nice day" and hung up.

lame. calling me every 10 min

Got 2 calls on my cell phone a couple minutes apart. After finding the number here, I turned off my cell phone.

READ MY ABOVE POST...  for people having pblms with 1-800-968-1875 phone calls.

Here is the Cliff Notes/Reader's Digest Version.
Direct all complaints about 1-800-968-1875 calls to

Smart Advertsing Solutions @ 1-602-453-3333 might try Matt Olsen   or
Five9 @ 1-925-201-2217 might try Chris Kong

Today I have recieved NO CALLS WHATSOEVER ... BUT  in talking with the Tempe Arizona BBB and the Arizonia Atty General  I learnedabout lawsuits and business practices that lead me to believe those companies may play a part in all this mess concerning calls from 1-800-968-1875

The information is provided to aid you in stopping your annoying phone calls. Use it for what it is worth.

they call & call. here is the link to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection complaint form.

https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

NOTICE - PAY ATTENTION - HERE'S THE SCOOP  1-800-968-1875

I also have been getting 10-20 calls a day, I decided to investigate, here is what I found out.

1-800-968-1875 is registered to a telemarketing/long distance call center company in Bangalore, India called ITRONICS. (fun, huh) (stay tuned).

On 14 Jun 2007 stopcallingme left a post/commment on this site referencing information he was able to gather. What he left was not the full story but left a (great) foothold to pursue the needed information. When searching for correct information you must not assume you have all the needed facts, but here is what I found out ..The name mentioned in the above article Mr Raymond Irrer is in no way connected to any of this, he is just a website holder. He purchased a domain name(s) US Lending from Smart Advertising Solutions. The phone number listed 1-602-453-3333 belongs to a company called smart advertising solutions ..www.smartadvertizing.com they are referenced because they sell website domains like the one to Raymond Irrer.  I called Smart Advertizing as my first point of contact and spoke to a Matt Olsen at extension 4525. AGAIN DONT YELL AT MATT, SMART ADVERTISING is not connected to the annoying phone calls. Matt was very helpful in that my phone call as you might imagine was not the first he had received. Matt referred me to a company called Five9 (www.five9.com) and a contact Chris Kong(spelling might be off) at 1-925-201-2217. NOW AGAIN FIVE9 is not to blame. FIVE9 is a large telepony software seller/long distance provider etc too other countries. FIVE9 is NOT RESPONSIBLE ... they just sell as noted by their website the equipment to set up call centers. H O W E V E R as I was talking to Chris Kong I mentioned to him the amount of calls I had received recently and ask him to either use Google or Yahoo seach engine and just type the number 1-800-968-1875 in the search block and just open/check the first couple links the search provided..NEEDLESS TO SAY He was surprised at the magnitude of the situation and the calls. He wouldnt provide me with a name and number but he did tell me the company name ** ITRONICS and that they were in Bangalore, India he said he would contact the company and have them stop calling my number ... I never heard another thing the rest of the afternoon/evening as far as phone calls so maybe my problem is over with the calls, and I post this information here for the benefit of all you other people. If any of you have questions feel free to contact me via email at www.delirioushunk@yahoo.com I plan to put this infomation on other info sites as well as posting a notice to blogger.  I decided to do this to relieve the cuss-out phone calls Smart Advertising Solutions and Five9 are getting as a result of some a***oles over in India.

To set everyone's mind at ease, first this is not a verizon number, it does most likely belong to US LENDING or what ever it is. It is pleasing to note that a search on Google or Yahoo brings up the hundreds of all you other people who are having the same problem. I have been dealing with the calls for about a year now. Most of the time they call a dozen or more times a day, then they quit for awhile. Calls average 4 seconds cause i dont pick up they phone. I have had 8 since 900am this morning. Cell phones, God love em, log every single call, and duration. I think when i get a minute I will start harassing US LENDING with complaints, I believe there number was included on one of these inquiries.

They have called my cell phone at least 100 times in the last month, and they always hang up when I answer.  I have added my cell number to the National Do Not Call registry, and am hoping that will stop it.

8:45 pm both house phone and cell rang from this #. Once answerd they hung up. This also happend at 8:18 the same evening. 8/13/07

The same thing happened to me about 3 weekends ago. The first call was at about 8:30 in the morning and the man asked for my girlfriend(i let her use the number when applying for jobs) when I asked who was calling he stated the companys name some lending thing, and I asked what this was concerning exactly and he hung up. Then an hour later the # called back I answerd they hung up. In the next hour this happend another 2 times. The next time I had my girlfriend answer he then spoke to her, she said she was not interested he kept talkin and she said if he called again she would report to police. 1 min. later he called again I picked up and said please take us off you list. No more calls I thought it was over, then last night between 8:25 and 8:50 2 more calls this time the house phone and my cell rang at the same time from the same #(I did not know they could do that) the first time my girlfriend answerd my cell they hung up, the next she answerd the home phone and I answerd my cell we both got hung up on. when I have time tomorow I am going to try to end this harrasment by contacting some off the links provided in this forum.

They call all the time and most times when I answer they hang up. When a real person was there I told them to take me off their calling list. They still called. The last time they called, I told them that I had already requested to be off their calling list, and I started going on and on about how I researched their number, found out that they are bothering many people and I was going to report them, yada yada, and they hung up on me. So far, they have not called back. If they call you and there is actually a person there, do not give them the opportunity to try to sell you something. Rant and rave and tell them you will report them! Make them tired of hearing you!!!

They have called me every 10 minutes on my cell all day long. I went to their webpage, but it has expired on go daddy.

They call here about 20 times a day...if I stay on the line long enough they connect to me and it is some foriegner and he wanted my husband who is in Afghanistan.  When I asked how I could help him he hung up on me.

I too have been getting calls from this # for the past couple of weeks, and YEAH this is what they do they call phone rings once i pick up no one there or sometimes I dont even have a chance to pick up and the phone stops ringing, when I call back the # is always bussy.
Can anyone get information on who these people are?  I have tried several different web engines and nothing comes up.

They called me back to back a few weeks ago , and then stopped after i contacted one of the numbers provided on this site.  The guy said it would be stopped.  Well today at about 10am it started all over again about 10 tmes in an hour and they are still calling.  I dont know what to do.

keep calling all day every day need 2 stop

I am getting sick and tired of these people calling!  When I pick up, they hang up. When I tried to call the number back, it is always busy.

Heather, I received the same phone call tonite.  I told her that I wasn't interested, and would hang up, and she called back.  She did this three times.  I told her that if I had to give her my information, I wasn't interested.  She said for $1.95 postage paid from my credit card or debit card, that all the prizes were mine.  I consistently told her I was not interested.  She is calling me at my parents house, the number is unlisted, and registered with the DO NOT CALL registry, and am seriously considering turning them in.

They have called my mobile phone 5 times in the last 5 hours.  I haven't answered since I didn't know the number.  I tried to call and it was busy

This number called every 15 minutes today--11 times! Luckily I was asleep & my phone was off, but this is ridiculous!!

Calls and calls and calls!

Almost forgot, that number that keeps calling even calls me after 9:00pm! I know there is definately a law against that! I sure hope the get in trouble!

Yep, I've been getting calls on the hour from the same number & when I answer there is nobody there & they dont leave a message either! Its really frustrating!

I keep getting calls from this number also, when I pick up and say hello noone will talk. They just keep calling doesn't matter what time of the day it is.  It is really getting annoying.