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
PA, USA and they left a message about reducing electrical rates. Asking you to press 2 if you are interested. I received a similar about a debt last year asking you to press 2 to speak to a customer rep. The previous call would switch your telephone service. These numbers are leased by a telecommunications service.These are bogus firms, telemarkters or scam artists. Never reveal any information to unknown callers.
(810) 213-6594
(810) 213-1018
After finding these numbers on this site, I am assuming it is VITELITY, LLC.
They are ruthless and will NOT quit calling!
We are in Michigan.
So, what can you do.. Perhaps you could complain to Vitelity that one of their customers at whatever phone number is using Vitelity's service for illegal purposes. However, the state of Voice over IP (which is Internet telephony) is such that many people are able to spoof their caller ID to show anything they want - so you cannot be sure that the number on your caller ID actually has anything at all to do with the party calling you. That said, I am quite certain that spoofing your caller ID for the purpose of disguising the actual source of the call is illegal, so there are strong discouragements in place generally preventing people from doing that.
I use Vitelity myself for legitimate purposes - so my family in the US can call me on a local number at no charge to them, and I can therefore vouch that Vitelity is not your enemy, but can probably help should they take in enough complaints about a particular customer of theirs.
I try to find the most offensive and nastiest names like money shot productions etc just bs them. Do forget to say its company policy to give out the info they asked for or keep asking for a valid e-mail. Just have fun. Or try a new product to market to the wolves. They are scumbags spammers.
I adopted this policy because I know for a fact (remember I did this work) that these companies sell this info and operate without privacy statements. Yes, the work might be important to organizations such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) but keep in mind that is NOT the CDC that is conducting the research...it is a private/for profit (big profit) company. They maintain vast records of data and sell it to whomever wants it. You can test this for yourself; just answer a survey and note that you will be inundated with advertising or phone calls from companies selling products associated with the survey topic.
These people can also be hired by political organizations so as to "adjust" candidates messages to meet the expectations or desires of certain groups in certain areas.