The Better Business Bureau of Northern Indiana warns consumers to beware of calls from two numbers: (201) 621-5694 and (201) 621-5695, from which an area resident reported receiving calls every day, numerous times, on her cell phone, despite her being listed on the Do Not Call Registry. The customer said the numbers appeared to be unlisted or not available via whitepages.com. Whenever she tried to reach them, the numbers were busy, so she was unable to determine who the caller was, the bureau said, adding it appears both of the numbers are part of a scam.
The second number is a scam number that will call and say it's regarding a government grant for which the consumer has applied. They claim they will send you free money for only $3.88 in shipping and handling. Once again, scam. Some people even said they asked for personal information (Social Security. addresses and other information).
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the number 201-621-5694 has been calling me 15-20 times a day and night. what can I do?
This is what someone left on Yahoo Answers " I asked the for all there info, the company is called members edge, they are trying to sell voicemail service. If you would like them to stop calling call 1-866-921-9275 ,finally some resolution to this problem!!!!"
there seem to be calls for multiple purposes coming from this number, all of which seem to be scams. after hundreds (literally) of dead calls from this number (no one on the line when answered) we finally got a hold of someone who said they were calling about a federal grant. by this point in time we were well aware of the scam, and had already contacted the FCC and the BBB. we informed them that if they called again we'd be calling the police. the calls stopped, thank goodness. i read on a forum somewhere that these numbers had been 'hi-jacked' and were being used (obviously) for illegal telemarketing purposes. don't know how true that is, but it seems to make a lot of sense to me being as they call for mulitple reasons (i.e. colon cleanse, government grant, voicemail, etc.) that are clearly not related.
I had just recieved a call from this number literally 6 minutes ago. When I had answered a lady was on the other end. And she was calling about something that I had ordered online. It's possible that this place is getting everyones numbers from online sites where you order things. Because when this number called me they knew my name and the phone isn't even under my name, however my order was under my name.
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