Another telemarketing scam call (from 289-206-0044)... this time I'd won a "free" trip. It is yet another scam trying to get your credit card information.

You can confirm a call is a scam by searching the # (all 10 digits in this format XXX-XXX-XXXX) on Google, Iquick, or another search engine and checking sources like "800notes.com" or "whocallsmecom". Please report ALL calls like this to the National Do-Not-Call (http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/plt-cmp-eng)list whether you answer them or not. The form is a long, PITA to fill  out but the more people that complain the more likely that some action will be taken.

This call was received Saturday (15-June-2013) at 9:55 PM local time which is, in and of itself, illegal!

A couple of additional observations... I initially hung up as usual when I realized what the call was and when I picked up the phone a few seconds later to make another call the recording was still going. I'd just happened to answer the call on the ONLY wired phone in the house which shares a jack with the base for the rest of the (cordless) phones in the house. I unplugged the splitter which disconnects EVERY phone in the house and after about 30 seconds plugged it back in and the recording was STILL there.

It looks like their equipment no longer disconnects automatically, probably since too many people became wise to the practice of using the three-tone signal the telephone companies use to preface their "this number not in service" recordings (that are supposed to signal auto-dialers to remove the number from their lists) to the beginning of their answering machine/voice mail messages so that the unanswered auto-calls would result in the #s automatic removal...

poor little scammer got himself a new phone number. He makes everybody mad at him.

This is a fraud campaign currently active in Canada using a series of Iristel VOIP numbers.  The objective is to obtain your credit card number and drain your account.

If you attempt to "opt out" your number will be confirmed as live and added to a suckers list for repeated future calls.

SCAM!! Told me I had won a trip to the Caribbean because of an on- line survey I had completed. I don't do on- line surveys! When I inquired as to which survey this was, the gal told me she was just an call centre whose job it was to forward on "valid" qualifiers. The first qualifying question was "are you over the age of "18"? I didn't get to the 2nd question as she flat out asked me if I was interested or not. I said no. The initial call was computerized. I was curious so I redialled the number and spoke to a call centre operator. This is a scam.

Another telemarketing scam call (from 289-206-0044)... this time I'd won a "free" trip. It is yet another scam trying to get your credit card information.

You can confirm a call is a scam by searching the # (all 10 digits in this format XXX-XXX-XXXX) on Google, Iquick, or another search engine and checking sources like "800notes.com" or "whocallsmecom". Please report ALL calls like this to the National Do-Not-Call (http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/plt-cmp-eng)list whether you answer them or not. The form is a long, PITA to fill  out but the more people that complain the more likely that some action will be taken.

This call was received Saturday (15-June-2013) at 9:55 PM local time which is, in and of itself, illegal!

A couple of additional observations... I initially hung up as usual when I realized what the call was and when I picked up the phone a few seconds later to make another call the recording was still going. I'd just happened to answer the call on the ONLY wired phone in the house which shares a jack with the base for the rest of the (cordless) phones in the house. I unplugged the splitter which disconnects EVERY phone in the house and after about 30 seconds plugged it back in and the recording was STILL there.

It looks like their equipment no longer disconnects automatically, probably since too many people became wise to the practice of using the three-tone signal the telephone companies use to preface their "this number not in service" recordings (that are supposed to signal auto-dialers to remove the number from their lists) to the beginning of their answering machine/voice mail messages so that the unanswered auto-calls would result in the #s automatic removal...