Business solicitations on residential phone
Complaint
john
Country: United States
Tried selling business loans to me on my personal cell phone.Manager said his name was Mr.Williams.This is the second time in 2 weeks that I spoke to him.He said they only call business numbers so telemarketing laws do not apply to them.They are not required to have a Do Not Call policy he said.Why not????They keep calling a residential number.Caller ID #727-772-7184
Comments
Too soon to see fully what they are up to. "United Financial" and "Mr. Williams" are both very generic names. No one reports an address. Similar names on bbb.org don't appear to match, based on location, phone number, or nature of business.
Their answer that "they only call business numbers" is too glib, especially when they are clearly calling numbers other than business numbers. So is their claim they are not required to have a "Do Not Call" policy, since any responsible business intending to call only other businesses would have some mechanism to remove unwanted numbers from their autodialing list.
Having a "Do Not Call" excuse at the ready, as opposed to a simple, professional "We will take you off our call list" (and then doing so), is a characteristic of "telemarketers" intentionally violating the Do Not Call law. They tend to have cheap, combative callers, since they are routinely calling people who expect to receive NO such calls.
Could be an advanced fee loan scam.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-727-772-7184
727 includes Aripeka, Clearwater, Dunedin, Hudson, Largo, New Port Richey, Palm Harbor, Pinellas Park, St. Petersburg, Tarpon Springs, Tierra Verde.
There appears to be a group of cross-border Canadian-based scammers engaged in "prize" scams (similar to "Nigerian" scams, with phony up-front "checks", where the mark is supposed to wire back some after depositing to get the rest), as well as "advanced fee loan" scams, reported under various addresses and phone numbers scattered around the U.S., but with commonly reported ties to Canada.
There also appears to be a "debt negotiation" company operating under this name based in Florida.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/searchresults.asp?q1=ALL&q4=&q6=&q3=&q2=&q7=&searchtype=0&submit2=Search%21&q5=united+financial&Search=Search