I have received calls from two different numbers under 914. This could prove interesting.

Yeah... no.  If by "correct" you mean to imply that hangup calls and charity calls are the same as the Card Services scammers, then ok.  Otherwise, you're a busybody nitwit.  I'm going with the latter.

There is no reason for ANonieMouse to apologize. We are free to respond to any post in this thread.

>>> Hopewell Junction is 50 miless north of Whiteplains. So it was probably a spoofed number indicating a scam.  All the posts following yours would also indicate Butch was correcct. <<<

Butch didn't say how he found the residential address in White Planes, NY.  He said he didn't answer the call or try to call it back.  Yet, still, he was able to guess that it was a "telemarketer selling interest rate reductions."  This is as amazing to me as it would have been to divine the future in chickens' entrails.

And yes, I did both search Google and this web site for complaints about this number and found none.  Zero, zip, nada.  There were, in fact, no posts below mine at all.  So, without anything other than the fact that someone didn't answer the phone or call back the number to find out who really called, and the fact that no one else had complained yet, a fat finger misdial certainly seemed the most probable explanation.  Haven't you ever misdialed a number before?  And how would you like it if someone posted your personal residential address on a worldwide top 1,000 web site simply because you misdialed their number?

>>> Every thread here starts with the first post. Someone has to go first. <<<

Yes, and I get a lot of what I consider to be junk calls to my business that I never report.  For example, I have one local number that is easy to butt-dial.  I often receive calls (sometimes repeat calls!) from truckers or other drivers in the middle of the night that use up 4 minutes of voice mail time recording nothing but road noise.  I have a fax number that differs by one digit from the main number of the local federal office building with its thousands of extensions.  That number gets loads of misdials.  And I have an "888" toll-free line that gets a lot of misdials, the type of which seems to vary with the season.  For example, in November and December, I get a lot of calls from people who want to recycle concrete.  

I never report one-time hangups here unless there is some articulable reason for doing so.

>>> How did you get here if you didn't get a call from this number or are you the caller trying to cover yourself? <<<

Yeah.  That must be it.  My real name is Christina, and I underwent a sex change operation 60 years ago just so that I could dial Butch and cover myself on 800notes.com.

I get here from the 800notes.com front page.  And I can check comments and replies by checking my profile here as a registered user.  And, in case you didn't notice, the front page of this site lists the most recent comments made in the number threads.

I got here because I have a personal and professional interest in telephone and security systems.  Also, I look here to see whether I can actually contribute something or put a thread on the right track to actually provide clues about who is calling.  Occasionally, it works.  See the 920-202-8226 thread starting at
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-920-202-8226/16
for example.

Just a note on "Bassi Oil," which is reported as the source of the calls in many posts that have been made here:

The NYS Department of State, Division of Corporations shows "Bassi Oil" as having been filed with the state initially on January 3, 2008, in Putnam County, NY, as a Domestic Business Corporation.  However, the company is shown (as of approx. 1am Eastern time, 1/14/2013) with the current status "INACTIVE - Dissolution (Jun 06, 2013)."

Putnam County, NY is covered by area codes 914 and 845.  It is, of course, quite easy to spoof a number and/or relocate it officially or unofficially from one location to another.  That is know as "number portability."  Many people use it to keep their old number when they move or change cellular companies.  Also, because caller ID (CID) is not provided in the same way as caller name (CNAM), it is even less reliable than the CID that you receive when someone calls.  In particular, CID is (or can be) sent to you by the caller, who may be able to choose his own CID to send.  Your own phone company then looks up the CID in a commercial database to find the CNAM, effectively doing a reverse lookup.  There is no guarantee that the two databases are the same, or, that they share listings with one another, or even that they get updated as numbers are reassigned.  And if the CID is spoofed, all bets are off that you will get anything reliable delivered to you a CNAM.

You can connect your own home VoIP server to a commercial CNAM provider if you want.  One that I know about is https://www.opencnam.com , but there are several others, depending upon how much you want to spend to get the most current data.

There's also the fact that some telco providers do not even provide databases of customers.  For example, the reported number here is part of a block administered by a company called "bandwidth.com," which, among other things, provides services for Skype, Google Voice, and Republic Wireless, the latter being a heavily discounted pay-as-you-go cell phone service, if my understanding is correct.  I could be wrong, but I don't recall that Skype or Google Voice provide any database that identifies their callers, or at least doesn't, as I recall, share it with anyone else, if they do.  Republic Wireless almost certainly doesn't.

Thus, to trace these scammers down (assuming that they are, in fact, scammers), it is likely to take more information to identify them than just their telephone number.  Anybody with more information is welcome to report that here, and in the meantime, everyone else has a number identified that they may want to block or not answer.

The use of a confusing Caller ID name tag like "Bassi Oil" already raises some neck hairs about the legitimacy of any charity the caller might claim to represent.

Charity calls are commonly placed by a commercial fundraiser, such as Associated Community Services, Dial America, Donor Care Center, Donor Services Group, Harris Direct, Horizon Marketing, InfoCision, Insight Teleservices, MDS, and TeleFund. Like all non-sales calls, these are exempt from federal and state no-call registries, even though the call centers executing the recurring campaigns are very much for-profit and pocket most of what is collected. At times the ''charity'' client is itself a closet profit enterprise, compounding the deception.

As commercial entities, these hired call centers are expected to honor an internal no-call list and add any number upon request. Break that order, the FTC declares, and ''the telemarketer may be subject to a fine of up to $16,000.'' They are also covered to a point by other regulations for telepests, so you can complain about abandoned calls, bot calls to mobile phones, and so on.

In comments from November 2012 and June 2013 linked below, I've discussed simple steps I took to rid myself of a major pain fundraising boiler room by politely rubbing its face in federal laws. You will note that I never rely on verbal cease-communication demands.

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-914-294-2543/7#p480457181536419195
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-7f0655b0510e7ef/aicr#p572275391492426506

} All the posts following yours would also indicate Butch was correcct.  [sic]

Not really. Butch made a wild guess toward a credit reprice scammer, a very different category of caller from a charity fundraiser, also treated differently by state and federal law, even if the charity appeal is a sham.

Could be at the time ANonie replied there were no remarks describing the call purpose. Butch elected not to explain the speculation. Probing that hunch was a valid reaction. Curiosity which leads to the truth isn't outlawed by the site rules. It's also okay to comment constructively if you lack a dog in the race, so to speak. New posts are visible to anyone who happens to see the home page, and no hidden agendas are required to join in.

Of course it does, But Anonie is also a well respected member here, and at the time he posted, he would and did research it, as we all pretty much do, and if nothing shows, then at that time, then we can't assume anything one way or the other.. Being first doesn't always mean right, let alone wrong..

And no, he's not part of the scam. He's a respected member here and a human being. And looking up a number which may or not be spoofed, doesn't justify posting a persons name and address. I'd say he is right, the number is probably a spoofed number and its not unusual to find the number is actually some innocent persons.

I think it's you who owes Butch an apology. Hopewell Junction is 50 miless north of Whiteplains. So it was probably a spoofed number indicating a scam. All the posts following yours would also indicate Butch was correcct. Every thread here starts with the first post. Someone has to go first. How did you get here if you didn't get a call from this number or are you the caller trying to cover yourself?

Got this call on Jan 5th. I don't know anyone in Whiteplains, New York so I didn't answer but constantly get calls from Whiteplains and Yonkers for donations for one thing or another from telemarketers working out of those locations.

They called at almost 9 pm, I answered, no one was on the line.  Caller id said Bassi Oil.  I hope it's not the damn charities calling again.  I was bombarded by charity calls starting in early October.  I thought they finally stopped.  Most of the time, I didn't answer the phone.  I would come home from work and see numerous calls on the caller id.  First it was AHA (Heart Association) calling, then Breast Cancer, Veteran's, Children's Cancer Fund.  Ridiculous and harassing.  

Just had the same call...   Since the call sail Bassi Oil and he said it was for the Vets Assoc.  I just hung up and entered that number in my refuse list. I belong to ''optimum ''  and can do that....

Caller ID showed Cellular Call. When I answered, the guy said he was taking donations for disabled veterans. When I said my husband is a disabled veteran who can no longer work and has no income, his response was, "Well maybe you can donate next time we call." If he's really working with disabled veterans, he should have asked if we needed help.

caller never said a word, just breathed heavy into the phone.

Called at 8:15pm. Did not leave a message on the machine.

Called at 7 pm...left no message.  Said Yonkers ny.

Caller ID also said Bassi Oil, caller identified himself as calling from the American Veteran's Association. They were soliciting donations.  Since the caller ID and the name of the orginization didn't match, my husband told him not to call back.  

Just had call about five minutes ago .didn't answer machine picked up but left no message. Caller id said bassi oil

Got a call from this number, didn't leave a message.  I'm on the 'do not call' list.  My caller ID showed the name Bassi Oil.

>>> Just guessing it's a telemarketer selling Credit Card interest reduction. <<<

Why?  So far it looks like you are a victim of nothing worse than an innocent misdialed number.  

There are no other reports on the Internet that show up for this number via Google.  How did you get a name, an address, and a motive(!) if she didn't leave a message and you didn't call back?

The person's name and address going with this number is Christina [residential address removed]. I didn't try to call it back. There was no voice message and I don't know anyone by that name. The caller ID was "Yonkers NY". Just guessing it's a telemarketer selling Credit Card interest reduction.