Jan 19, 2015
I have been getting calls from various 304 exchange numbers showing Beckley WV as the caller ID for probably 2 or 3 years now. Once someone wanted me to give them a credit card number to renew my FOP membership and for awhile I think they were claiming to be collecting donations for breast cancer research. These calls seem to come in waves and then stop for a couple of months. Around Christmas the FOP scam started up again using the number (304) 362‑6196 and showing Beckley WV as the caller ID. When someone would be on the line they said it was time to renew my FOP membership again. I live outside Wheeling WV so it is not uncommon to get cell phone calls that just show the originating city. I have never given to breast cancer research or had an FOP membership so I am not sure how they got my number. I have just included this information as the posters above noted that their caller ID showed Beckley WV as the caller ID and am not sure if these scammers are related. Today I got a call from 681-220-5287 and the caller ID showed Convergent Res. I answered the phone and an automated recording began playing. It stated that the caller had an important business message for a name I could not recognize though it was not even close to anyone living at my house. It said if you are Monty Mark, the name they were calling for, please press 1, If I was Monty Mark but could not talk right now press 2, If I was someone else besides Monty Mark but that he lived at this number please press 3, If I was someone else besides Monty Mark but could tell them where they could reach Monty Mark press 4, If I was not Monty Mark and he did not live at this number please press 5. I pressed 0 in the hope that it might connect me to a human being that might better explain why they were calling me? Well the computerized voice just responded that they were sorry but they did not recognize my input???? In desperation I pressed 1 and the voice responded to hold the line for the next available representative. Actually in a very short time I was connected to a man who immediately asked if I was Monty Mark. I told him I wasn't but wanted someone to explain why your company was calling me for someone who as far as I knew never had anything to do with my number or residence or that I had never even heard of. As the final insult he cut me right off and said that he had important business that he could only discuss with this Monty guy and that I had wasted his valuable time by not pressing 5 like I should have!!!! I wanted to yell back at him that his time was no more valuable than my own personal time but before I could get anything out he hung up. These morons don't seem to understand that.