These scammy leadgens are on literally tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of numbers right across every area code and toll free prefix.
There are just as many of the equally ridiculous $100 retail rebate vouchers, under the true guise of trying to give some legitimacy to credit card fraud.
I get sick of hearing them in some sections of real estate, they can literally be on every number.
I’ve logged in excess of 250 consecutive numbers with $100 vouchers on them and roughly the same with leadgen trash.
There are several types of leadgen offers. A lot of insurance associated stuff on numbers waiting for a misdial the only logical assumption or conclusion.
The gift card numbers send out random number robocalls all the time to solicit callbacks. I have hundreds of numbers and haven’t ever got a robocall from a leadgen number.
We destroy hundreds of call center numbers every day. The first thing which is often heard in the majority of them once the number is switched off and discarded, gift vouchers and to a lesser extent leadgens appear immediately.
Who put them there, or are they there all along ready to revert once the number is no longer in use?
I can show hundreds of toll free numbers which were known scams and now host $100 vouchers on them full time.
“Call Haven Partners” being notorious for hosting $100 retail rebate vouchers on toll free numbers immediately after having fake popups on them.
This number I’ve listed as a $100 retail voucher number a long time ago on the 21st of July, but had it stored for some time before listing it
8335906218
I can show mountains of evidence of it without effort.
I’ve tried to investigate who puts these things on the numbers, virtually on all allocated blocks to carriers for retail resale.
They don’t just get there themselves seemingly by magic.
The only reasonable assumption is there is a lot of profiting from this intended outcome of economic misery or despair.
Mysterious things in an industry not known at all for any semblance of ethical behavior.
That’s a fact which can be taken to the bank!