This number (314) 863-4706, just showed up on my cell phone so I answered it. The recorded message was asking about my credit card: Visa, Mastercard, American Express… they weren’t picky.
But they wanted to HELP ME cut my rates in half… How nice of them!
They then asked me to punch 1 or 2… Well I wanted to talk to a person so I can tell them to remove me from their call list (Once you tell someone that, they HAVE to abide by the law), but while I stared at my phone, it seems I won the staring contest and ‘it’ hung up on me.
Dang! I was really looking forward to making a live person hang up on me.
I called back immediately, and I got that multi-tone message followed by the “This phone number has been disconnected or no longer in service at this time.”
I believe it’s illegal to market to cell phones, isn’t it??? Or to represent a false phone number? not sure.
[Update: 7 hours later, after the break]
I’m noticing there’s a lot of traffic coming to this article, so I thought I’d add some more info to it:
PhoneOwner.info refers to the number as a suspicious number. (Duh?)
You can file your info there at [http://phoneowner.info/Number.aspx/3148634706]
On 800Notes, a directory of Unknown Callers, there are 3 pages of comments left behind. They indicated a few different things.
A few folk said that this came from a Rick Morgan…. something about lowering their credit card interest rates.
A comment suggest they were phishing for info from people.
Some said that they had a job offer from this number, witha return 1-800 number. (No, I’m not propogating the fickle-nuts number here.)
What’s amazing is that this site got almost all the comments within the last 24 hours of this article.
Wow, they must be paying over-time for the machine to be calling us all and using this stupid fake 314-863-4706 number.
FYI: Area code 314 is the St. Louis, Missouri area.
Here’s a bit from the FCC about “Unwanted Telephone Marketing Calls” and if you feel so inspired, here’s the FCC link to lodging complaints about this noise.
sources: PhoneOwner, 800Notes,
