Claimed they were from the Toronto Police Association doing a fund raiser.Seems suspicious. I don't know why the police department does not seem to be warning anyone about culprits doing this in their name.

730p "on behalf of the toronto police department assocation" called, told them the person at home wasn't here. looked up this number online and got here. comment on rudeness was new to me plus got the idea from one of you to call them back.  some muzak played for a sec till answering machine came on, said my call was being processed and that they wanted to speak to me personally. then told me if i had any questions or concerns to call "toll free" at 1-+1 800-223-5315 "at regluar business hours eastern time"  looked THAT number up online, apparently in use by a Rogers cable comm customer since dec 12 2001.  if anyone knows who please post.

i am getting annoying calls from this numbers all same (police amateur, Canadian cancer, burning victim... wherever) asking for donation(416) 848-7843/ (416) 848-7822 /(647) 722-5905/ (647) 722-5930 / (416) 238-1249 /(289) 841-7109 /1-+1 800-326-1783 / (905) 499-2606 /(416) 830-1439 /1-+1 800-616-2023 / 1-+1 800-365-1522 /(416) 628-4561 /1-(250) 800-2500 /(647) 722-5879 /(416) 848-7850 /(416) 628-4533 / (905) 481-2918 /1-+1 800-713-5190 /1-+1 800-382-3690  when you don t answer they keep playing with number and harassing you

i want to know who is using this number

I get calls from this number several times a week.  I never answer and they never leave a message.  Is there any way to stop this?  I see from the other comments that this is obviously a scam artist who is abusing the phone lines.

Got a call from them tonight, claimed to be calling from the Toronto Police Association to get me to buy a ticket for a disabled child to attend a Christmas event. I said I didn't do donations over the phone and they said that was fine they could mail me something and I could respond with a cheque or money order. The guy asked if I would donate $30 and I said fine - although now I'm wondering why that's important for mailing.He then passed me to a verifier to verify my address which she did. Then she said "visa or mastercard?" like I had forgotten and I repeated that I would respond to their mail if I wanted to. Then she said ok and hung up without even taking down my last name. It didn't seem right to me.I called the Toronto Police Association (found their number on the internet) and asked if they were doing this charity. The guy immediately said "Oh, you got a call from Xentel?", he sounded like he's gotten a lot of calls about this. He says that Xentel purchases add space in their magazine and they do work with them for their charity events. He said they did have a children's Christmas event 2 weeks ago so that's what the call was about. Isn't it weird that they would be asking for ticket money to something that happened 2 weeks ago? I didn't press it further, but this whole thing seems really wrong. The guy on the phone for Xentel was giving me the high pressured sales "don't you want to help a sick child?" kind of thing.The Toronto Police Association should be more careful what companies they sell ad space to and associate themselves with.Hopefully these postings will stop anyone from giving out their credit card information over the phone - just don't do it, for anybody.