Caller Type: Unknown
Phone Number Report: everyone start listing what geographical region you are rec. this call from, AND what cell carrier you use (do NOT list you cell # obviously).
I rec. this call in chicago area / T-Mobile. (708 is a area code used in the chicago area)
The call source is 99% likely not the legit #, it is spoofing the number, your call is not actually coming from the number listed. If you look at the 'missed calls' folder on my cell phone, this call is the only one that does not list a '1' prefix ahead of the missed call, as it did not really come from the number shown.
In my area you CANNOT dial a number even within the local area, without a '1-xxx' ahead of the number, so it is definitely spoofed. 'reporting' this number to the authorities may not be effective as its not a real #.
also, the source spoofing this number is specifically targeting cell phones as well as the land line at the SAME cell owners home, which means the person receiving the call is the FOCUS, and being targeted, not a random, totally ineffective, telemarketing attempt to sell insurance.
Here is my theory; I do not think this is any attempt (incompetent) to sell/tele-market insurance- this is possibly a attempt ascertain your whereabouts by checking the 'ping' records from the cell tower that your call is directed through, when you answer/return the call. This would only require purchasing the records from your cell carrier either legally or through a illegal deal with a cell-carrier employ who has computer access.
this would be a benefit, for instance, to a collection agency or to a process server who was trying to serve you, so they can establish where you are likely to be found at a given time.
this is not a normal telemarket scam in my opinion, and its important to get to bottom of this.
If a private detective/process server is committing crimes by making illegal/spoofed calls, or buying confidential ping records from their girlfriend who works at T-Mobile, then they are going to jail, and we are entitled to monetary damages- both from them and the carrier.
(PLEASE NOTE- this agency is lazy as they can/could change the number they spoof any time they want, so once they reads this,
the number you get these calls from could be changed completely, OR have a '1' added to the front of it to make it conceivably possible to be a 'real' number..etc, so stay on your toes)
