Harressment
Complaint
melissa
Country: United States
Vitelity LLC has been calling my mother daily. They number is 248-270-3341 (originating in Michigan). They never leave a message. When she does answer, they don't respond, but they don't hang up either. She is on the DNC list, but this makes no difference to them. She is going to report them to the attorney general.
Comments
Although the area code appears to be Michigan, the call might be coming from anywhere in the world.
Best response is to not answer, as it's probably a "con" of some sort.
If you do talk to them, DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY SAY, and DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY ID OR ACCOUNT INFORMATION. These calls are often scams or phone extortion rackets.
STOP THES IDIOTS FROM HARRESSING THE PUBLIC
STOP THEM -THEY ARE LIKE COCKROCHES,CAN"T GET RID OF THEM
They are a RIP-OFF, pure and simple.
Put em on CALL-BLOCK
they have called my home line for last 14 days over 35 times.
cannot get my Comcast "call-blocking" to work with the calls '
from VITALITY, LLC.
NEED SOME RELIEF!!
MY ELDERLY PARENTS IN AREA CODE LIVONIA 734.....THIS IS SAME AREA CODE
THAT THE CALLS COME FROM! comcast call-blocking not working.....
am now calling local law-enforcement of white lake michigan.
Then they had my grand girl call sounded just like her voice and she said they were in court house and to please help her say nothing to anybody so she would not get premantedly scared record from this accident. Then she claimed she had to get off phone. My husband was home I told him and he said not anothern family emergrency. He had had a bad past dreiving himself so he did want to help. when lawyer calledd back he said to get her out of jail they would need 7100 dollars and gave me a name and addrerss in Georgia and bank numbers and I said why in Ga. if they were in LA and he said it had to do with owner of bail bond company. I said well she will have to go to court several times for this to finish how would this help. He said I thought you understood this whole thing could disappear if money was paid and that he or bail company would call when it was sall ready. Then next call was a woman sounded like she was in India very heavy accent and she said chang in plans that the info defender guy gave me would have to change and that now it was to have money go to an account in Bof A in New York state and that even sounded wierder so I said this secrecy they said had to be maintained seemede very wierd but in this two days of calls they had me talk to granddaughter twice public defender three time and India woman once so my husband and I go to bank and they said scam cannot be true they had another grandma in not long before same story but grandson and that she went and sent money anyhow and itr was azll lies and she was outr the money. The bank people called fraud division and I called police about it learned it is being done from Canada and money ends up in Cayman Islands. Police said they could not do a thing out of country. The fraud divsion of bank said when you do not send money they will call back try to get a groung number not cel tgo help with undoing. Oh by the way in this time zone I got hold of grandsoin who lives with that grand daughter and \he knew she was in town and spent night at her own house. Then low and behold a neighbor comes over and says his mother had same thing happen about her grand daughter in Ca. and he said when they call bacvk about why money did not get wire transfered tell them your husband took all the money with him and was on plane to LA. at that a very moment if he could give me address where grand girl was held and his ofgfice and his phone number I would let my huband know when he calls me for it when he lands and he was dumb founded and asked to really mess himself up how much money did he have on him and IU said it was none of his business then he said he had another call coming in and we never herd from him again.
It's often run by scammers in Canada.
It appears that they try to find enough information on their targetted elderly victims to pretend to be a relative in trouble, then try to get the victim to guess some of the details of who is calling, that they feed back as part of the con.
It's all aimed at conning money from the elderly, often for "bail", or "an attorney", for this supposed relative "in legal trouble". They depend on reaching forgetful people with money, who might be convinced some strange voice could be someone they haven't seen in a few years.
Sounds like they had 3 different people all playing along.
Not very surprising one had an Indian accent, as such accents are increasingly reported in connection with phone fraud. Most of the fake "debt collection" calls reported on this site are from Indian scammers ("ASC", "attorney Michael Carter", etc.)
this belongs to directly above scam report.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-214-377-5991/22
Complaints vary from reports of "ATM card cancellation" scams, to more recent "grandchild" cons like you are reporting.
Since this number has been reported since 2009, it's worth reporting to FTC and FBI.
This may actually be an overseas criminal operation, run like a business call center, in the "business" of phone fraud.