It's NOT Global Reach Institute calling you!
Complaint
Rene' Miller
Country: United States
Our company is call Global Reach Institute, and we have received numerous complaints of people receiving calls with Global Reach Int on their caller ID> It is not us, we NEVER make unsolicited calls, and don't utilize telemarketing in our organization. The phone number that is making these calls is not associated with us in any way. Our organization is headquartered in Spokane, Washington, not Los Angeles. Please understand we have done everything we can think of to make them stop using this caller ID and making unsolicited calls, however have been told by the phone company, etc, that there is nothing they can do. We are mortified that our good name is being smeared by whomever is making these calls, but please understand that it is NOT Global Reach Institute, just as your identity can be stolen, so can your company ID apparently. We are a humanitarian/educational travel organization that develops educational/humanitarian international programs to help make the world a better place for everybody. The calls you are receiving are not from Global Reach Institute (for International Education).
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Anyone else got to speak with a represenative? What were they selling?
second call from globalreach int @ 213 452 6539: approx 5:45pm p.s.t., i answered. i hear a call center buzzing in the background, and a woman with a thick "international sort" of accent (which for the record, i don't have a problem with) asks me if i made an inquiry online for free government grant money. i tell her, no i don't recall making any inquiry as such. she interrupts me and says "don't you remember? isn't your email address "____" and i say DO NOT interrupt me, and no, that email belongs to someone else and they are absolutely not authorized to sign me up for anything online without my permission, i am not interested, and i hang up. (the email she read me belongs to my mother, whom i called 30 seconds after hanging up with this solicitor to verify if she had indeed signed me up for free government money online, which she *had*)
third call from globalreach int @ 213 452 6539: approx 6:10pm p.s.t., i answer and now a man named "ralph miguel" calling on behalf of Grant Resource Center calls to make the same government grant information packet offer, if only i will pay the $2.99 s&h fee for the packet. i ask him who global reach international is, and he tells me it is the phone provider company. i say ok, is this call being recorded? he says, yes ma'am. i say: do you have any more of my personal information in your database? at which he proceeds to read my complete street address to me. (yeah, i'm kinda way pissed at this point). so i tell him i want him to completely erase all of my personal information from every database he is authorized to access, and any other company that may have access to *their* database better damn well delete every bit of information they have on file for me as well. i told him although i thought i made myself clear by being verbally forceful on the previous call they placed to me, i now reiterate, remove me from your calling list, and any database you have me in, immediately. thank you very much mr. miguel.
so, who knows if i was being recorded or not, and who knows if that [***] deleted my information. they have my phone number. they have my address. they probably have yours too. if you ever enter anything personal on the internet, who knows who will get it, and who knows what they'll do with it. THE INTERNET IS NOT SAFE. EVEN THE PEOPLE YOU TRUST THE MOST CAN UNKNOWINGLY SELL YOU OUT. and there is not a damn thing we can do about it. ain't technology grand?? ((sorry this was so long guys!))
I really like to tell them that I'm in prison because if they keep on the line I start asking them offensive questions because I've been locked up so long that I need the 'thrill'.
The more you annoy these people and waste their time the less they call. Stop being a victim and push back.
I have now turned my phone off. I have children and grandchildren whom I hate to be out of contact with but have no other method to get these people to stop harassing me.