So this "thing" has called me for two weeks straight. It started on February 13th and carried through the entire weekend, day and night. By Monday morning, it stopped. The calls began again on Feb 20th, and haven't stopped since. They are primarily during the evening and night time hours. They were all "private" calls, until somehow they managed to forget to block the number. Has anyone figured how to put a stop to these calls?

Tonight, we just got a bunch of calls, like 5 every hour from this number and they would never answer when we picked up. How do we stop it if this supposedly doesnt exist to report it?

He is till at it.  He calls me around 10:30-11:30 every other night and the one time I answered, he said his name was Peter and knew my first name.  Just don't answer the phone.  I am going to change my number when I move.  He's a freak.

I got a call from this number today.it is perfectly fine with me. My suggestion to everybody who receive any unwanted call is not to answer the call...never answer any call, again never answer any suspicious call......you would kill them if you don't... believe me everybody, it worked for me for years, and this number calls maybe every 6 to 7 months which is OK but I never answered them. That's the best solution for any illegal call, everything else never works.

this number called but when i tried to call back there was only a busy signal.  that may mean that they are a marketing company but maybe they were actually trying to progam my phone.  When this happened to my friend who had a business and he kept erasing the stupid numbers they came into his house and cut his phone line meaning they were progamming his phone.

Exact same call as bjay. Person claimed to be from "Visa Mastercard Company" saying I had been selected for a trip to Florida for 4 people. I asked for a contact number to call them back at and they gave me the 1-800 number for TD Waterhouse. Given that TD does not issued Mastercards the whole thing is completely suspect.

Person on the phone requested the 7 digits on the back of my Mastercard (which I made up as well as the fact that I even had a Mastercard at all), then he asked for the 3rd block of numbers on the front of the card, to which I again made up along with the expiry he requested. I asked him if he could verify my card immediately and he answered yes. He then read out a bunch of numbers which was supposely my Mastercard number and asked me to verify. I again questioned him if this was the number he had pulled from his database and he said yes. I can only assume he wanted me to correct his number and thereby give him a legit credit card number with expiry and the security code on the back.

The Caller addresses you as Mr. "insert your lastname here" or Ms. "lastname" and can obviously get your address through the phone book. Do not fall for readily available information as being verification that they are legit!

I've since reported this to the OPP but given that the number appears to be some cover number I doubt it's traceable. My only advise to people is to be EXTREMELY skeptical of phone calls which dangle carrots.