877-441-4758
This is a lead generator. It robodials off large lists mostly targeting seniors and then runs through multiple offers. Life Protect 24/7 happened to be the one you got when you called. It also forwards callers over to ATT (Dish Networks), etc.
Lead generator robodialing is full of TCPA violations given that there must be a business relationship between the caller and the called party for it to not be treated as an improper robodial. Since there's virtually no documented relationship that lead generators can make on their blast lists, the ad guys behind it hide in the shadows but they certainly pop up and make themselves visible to companies looking for inbounds.
@kenzo#80050 Yes this is all true. This number 877-441-4758 is one of the hundreds of numbers I farm every week from 800notes.com because they were all used to previously send out illegal robocalls, usually concerning credit cards, loans, debt relief, and government grants. These robocalls are strictly illicit simply because they do not provide the company name in the robocall, and on top of this most likely did not receive written or spoken consent to send out robocalls. Life Protect 24/7 has many bad complaints filed on BBB given the operator chooses if they want to send help, so if they are having a bad day they don’t have to, (so it is never a click of a button away as the call says) and it definitely isn’t free. (as it says on the call) You get a 30-day trial ( not mentioned on the call) and then you are charged.
@davidslow888#80073 If you want to punish the lead generator, dont press 1 to be transferred, keep pressing whatever option they tell you to skip to the next offer and roll through them all.
The longer the lead generator has to play IVR messages of bullshit offers, the more they get charged for the call.
@kenzo#80076 Oh wow didn’t know that. So they actually get charged for the call?
@Rajeshi_Gardner With toll-free numbers, the carrier that the scammer is using pays whichever carrier charges to terminate toll-free traffic headed to the scammer. No carrier hosting a scammer is going to do that for free (at least not permanently), they’ll pass the inter-carrier fee on to whoever rented out the number.
Scammers are paying their VOIP charges of course by using the money they get from scamming.
In the case of this lead generator--they're not really a scammer that is out to go after your grandma's credit card... they are a traditional TCPA violator making cold sales calls to senior citizens (it's the telephone equivalent of junk mail). This is what the TCPA law was meant to stop. So they're hiding from the FCC, but the companies who are advertising on this robot number seem to either not know or not care what they're doing---they just want the hot inbound referrals from seniors transferred into their sales centers.
Telephone lead generation firms that do bullshit like "MoneyCall" and this outfit are illegal as fuck and need to be pushed off the telecom network.