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Who is 888-695-9405, and Why do They Keep Calling Me?


Joshua Putnam (josh@phred.org)
Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:52:03 -0700

For most of a week now, I've been getting hang-up calls on my cell
phone, showing a caller ID of 888-695-9405. If I call that number
back, I get a recording thanking me for calling the DNC Hotline, and
asking me to leave my number after the beep. I was reluctant at
first, but after enough of these calls I did try leaving my number,
but the calls keep coming.

I've tried all the reverse lookup sites I could think of, none show
that number. A Google search only turns up me asking, over in
misc.consumers, if anyone knew who that number belonged to.

After asking in misc.consumers, though, I have received email from
other people who have received the same nuisance calls from the same
number.

* How do I find out who that number belongs to?

* How do I know that's really the number calling me?

* How, other than logging all these calls at www.donotcall.gov, do I
get the calls to stop?

Unfortunately, the cell phone they're calling is with Cingular, so
customer service isn't the greatest.

josh@phred.org is Joshua Putnam
<http://www.phred.org/~josh/>
Braze your own bicycle frames. See
<http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html>

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