Apr 28, 2011
Got a call from this number for the first time today. Read the comments on a bunch of different websites about this number. Then realized the call must be directly related to what happened to me yesterday:
I called in to cancel a mail order service (Proactiv, to be exact). After pressing the obligatory numbers to talk to a service representative, the representative answered: "Hello _____! (My name)." I thought this was curious but went about cancelling my subscription. At the end of the call, the representative asked for my phone number, saying they didn't have it in their records. I asked, "Then how did you know my name?" and she answered that sometimes the number "rolls off" my account and sometimes they can see it and sometimes they can't. Despite that being the sketchiest explanation in the history of telephone transactions, I stupidly gave her my number. Lo and behold, I get a "Medco" call the next day. I have a feeling that Proactiv, and probably a lot of other companies, sell information like phone numbers to a plethora of other companies, and having me re-state my number constituted some sort of consent. In the future, when someone asks me for my number, I'll always ask them why they need it and if I can opt out.