Victim Location 55599
Type of a scam Phishing
We have our home phone number registered on the national do not contact list, so when "SIMPLE NETWORK, INC." (732-451-1111) kept coming up on my phone, I decided to answer and get it over with so they’d stop calling. When I answered, no one was there so I called back, listened to the options on the automated system and pressed ZERO for operator. A woman with a thick accent answered.
Here is the dialogue:
Me: hi, I keep getting calls from this number and I’d like to know what business this is
SN: What is your name?
Me: what does your company do?
SN: I need to know your name before I can tell you that.
Me: no you don’t need to know my name. Our phone number is on the do not contact list and I don’t want you to call here again. Please take this number off your list. (at which time any other company says ok).
SN: What is your name?
Me: I am not telling you my name. Are you taking this number off your list??
SN: ok, what is your number?
Me: (number given) ok, so you will take us off your call list, yes?
SN: Pause. Ma’am, are you there?
Me: yes. What does this company do!?
SN: It is called Simple Network
Me: Yes, I know what it is called, but what do you DO?
SN: I need to know your name before I can tell you that.
Me: No, you don’t. I am in sales. There, now you know what I do. What do YOU do? That shouldn’t be a secret.
SN: It isn’t a secret, ma’am.
Me: Ok, just tell me, what does the company do??
SN: It is for prepaid phone cards.
Me: Ok, thank you, now are you taking our phone number off your list? (no talking) yes or no!? (hear talking in the background, a man and the woman with thick Indian accents.
SN: Ma’am, I just need to (I interrupt)
Me: you don’t need to do anything but tell me that you are taking us off your call list! Are you taking us off your call list or am I calling the ScamPulse.com!? (man and woman talking in the background and I hang up).