reference check
Complaint
sarah schroeder
Country: United States
got a call and missed several hang ups, finally i answered, the woman on the line knew our address, names and phone number and said a nieghbor had put us down as a reference for a job, we do not know this person and she was very evasive and said she would call back, i called her adn got a fast busy.
Comments
Since you don't know the person, simply tell her so, and tell her to stop calling you. If they are reasonably professional, they will just move on to some other way to locate the person.
If they are incompetent or abusive thugs, they will keep harassing you anyway, in which case there are ways to get them to stop.
These types of phone services are commonly used by telemarketing and debt collection call centers, among others. They provide cheap and flexible long distance calling from anywhere, with many added services useful to call center, and easy expansion. They may show up on caller id under various area codes and phone numbers, even when the call may actually originate overseas.
When the caller id says "Vitelity", it may mean that the caller is a customer of Vitelity, who is buying their VoIP services, but has not set the caller id message from it's default value.
Legitimate call centers would set caller id to report their company name, or possibly their client's company name, and their 800 callback number.
You cannot trust caller id, since it can be spoofed. In fact, although YOUR caller id is set by your phone company to match your information, ANY call center PBX system can set it to whatever they want.
Fraudulent users of VoIP have been reported to set phony caller id settings, and might appear to be anyone they think might help them in their fraudulent scheme: the sheriff, your bank, your employer, a well known U.S. company, whatever.
Cell phones are frequent targets of sequential block autodialing by scammy telemarketers. The caller might not even have any information on you specifically, but just be systematically cold calling, even if it violates TCPA and the Do Not Call laws. In these cases, the caller id number might be some other company's number, to hide the source of illegal calls, or even a disconnected number.
Consumer complaints include many reports of fraudulent and extortionate calls from overseas scammers that show up with a caller id of "Vitelity LLC". Their services are being used by fraudulent telemarketers and overseas scammers, including fake "payday loan debt collection" scams.
Your debts may all have been discharged in bankruptcy, be legally unowed, you might not even owe any debt at all. Many debt collectors could care less. They will call, threaten, harass, and deceive, trying to con you into paying them anyway.
Vitelity, telecom to the scams.
If they insist then I add them to the do not answer list of my phone.
It's amazing how they get around the Do Not Call List.
Like yourself, if I do not recognize the number, I DON'T answer it.
in the words of the late Jacques Clousseau: "filty swine!"
This is something telecoms and everyone else have to deal with, and there isn't really any way to actually deal with it. Apparently, tracing a call after the fact only allows you to see the spoofed info and the number called. Until government agencies dedicate the resources to put a stop to this we are all going to have to sit back and suffer with it. So, please do everyone a favor and don't harass or blame anyone spoofed into the Caller ID. They had nothing to do with it, and you could be one of hundreds or millions of people calling them. Odds are you do not do business with Vitelity, so block the number or never answer calls showing that Caller ID. As some others have mentioned, any legit caller would update the Caller ID to show their own accurate info.