caller wanted to know if I knew my neighbor living at 802 (house down the street.  Caller then asked would any of my neighbors know if he still lived in that house or had he moved.  Asked me to take down a phone number and have neighbor call him in california  (This area code is from Texas!).

 Keeps calling my cell phone and leaves no message.   When I try a return the call I get a busy signal.   Ready to report to FCC.  since I get this a work and it is annoying when i'm trying to take care of patients.

This number just rang me on my cell, asked for someone I knew 12 years ago who used THAT first name only for business, such as her land line bill. This is a scammer phishing for info. I am told that they have a device that can call you and it can register from anywhere they choose to program into it.  Comes up on your caller id OR cell as if calling from the number registered, but actually calling from random numbers, supposedly untraceable. Found this out from individual on a local forum who received a call from, understandably, irate caller who said he had received calls "all night" from his number and wanted it  stopped! He assured the call he had NOT called him and later discovered, thru determined effort, how this is happening. FCC told him what and how his number was used for these hideous calls
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This was a local call. They did not introduce themselves by what company they were with. She said the call was recorded. she asked if this was our residentce, and it is but she asked for a name that was not related to anybody in the household. She apologized and hung up. When I called the number, it didn't say who it was, just that the vouce mailbox hadn't been set up.

Calls from this number come in on a regular basis, to both our land line and our cell phones, but mostly to our land line. We make a habit of never - and I mean - NEVER - answering calls from #'s we do not recognize due to the fact that registering with the do-not-call doesn't work for advertisements, but is ONLY supposed to not work for Government (VOTE FOR ME!) type calls. (Really, they are allowed to get through, even when registered with the Do Not Call registry.) We never answer the phone also because, being older (Almost 'senior citizens) citizens we have been the recipients of all SORTS of teller marketing attempts to sell us outrageous things - as is, sadly, often the case with both the youth and older people. If there have been storms in our area, we used to get calls asking if we wanted a new roof or our trees cut, etc. It seems scammers actually go to great lengths to scam, even following the weather.

I have never answered this number, I came in online to find out information about it because I am due for some new calls from specialists I have to go to in the medical field. I am glad to see others replied about it as I was wondered if it was one I should answer, as I have been waiting over 1.5 months to see certain doctor/specialist and I don't really keep a list of which numbers are not to be answered. Since I took the time to WRITE something in here, maybe now I will remember this number and not keep looking it up.