The caller goes on to say that they will be in the office until 11 p.m. This caller tried 14 million times, leaving a voicemail claiming to be a debt collector from Wells Fargo.Īffecting 12 million, this caller leaves a voicemail from a man or a woman claiming to be from Santander Consumer, a car loan and automotive refinancing company. It made calls an estimated 14 million times. This caller leaves a voicemail claiming to be a courtesy call from the cable and communications network Comcast. With a volume of 37 million calls, this number leaves a voicemail from a woman claiming to be from Capital One Bank calling to discuss an "important business matter." Here were the top 10 robocallers by volume in June.
1 most common robocall, Quilici said, is always about interest rates. to estimate how many people across the country could be affected by robocalls. YouMail then extrapolates and compares this data against the approximately 324 million phone users in the U.S. Once YouMail is alerted to a robocaller's phone number, the number is entered into their database, where their users can contribute additional information such as comments or additional audio clips. The safest thing to do when an unknown number pings your phone is to just let it roll to voicemail.Įvery month, YouMail collects audio clippings from the voicemails robocalls leave on their 10 million users' phones. The problem, he said, comes in when scammers cover their tracks by disguising their caller IDs with legitimate phone numbers, a technique called "spoofing." For instance, the phone number listed for Wells Fargo was confirmed as authentic by a Wells Fargo spokesperson, but scam callers could potentially use it to hide where they are actually calling from.Īll of the numbers on the top 10 list, Quilici said, are risky. According to Quilici, about 29 percent of the robocalls made in May were scams, with the rest being telemarketing, payment reminders or debt collection reminders. Making things more complicated: Some of these callers are legitimate, if no less annoying. With the rapid improvement of phone caller ID – which, on most cellphones, can now warn you of an incoming potential scam call – and the proliferation of apps designed to screen for fake calls, the number of robocalls that actually get picked up on the first try is declining, according to YouMail CEO Alex Quilici. Most of the time, these robocalls are after people's money. Since February this year, the number of robocalls made to phone users across the country has risen more than 40 percent, it says. Robocalls have been on the rise in the United States: An estimated 4.1 billion robocalls were made nationwide in June alone, according to data compiled by YouMail, an app that aims to prevent robocalls by playing an out-of-service message from your phone. Wondering whether you should pick up that random number that just called?Ĭhances are, it's a robocall, and it may be a scam. Ugh, can't believe I partially fell for the first ( likely ) scam.Corrections & Clarifications: This article has been updated to clarify that some of the most frequent robocalls include legitimate payment and debt collection calls. Now I get a letter from supposedly BofA with the same sort of request and that phone number is 866.297.9257 which I've already found being reported as suspicious elsewhere.
The more I thought about the whole thing, it just didn't seem right. They said another department that handles the credit card applications wasn't open and I would have to call back Monday etc to go any further. I asked to speak with a Supervisor who wasn't going to mark the application as fraud because they couldn't verify me.I Indicated I was going to file a police report and then they decided to go ahead and indicate they would put in the notes that I called in and indicated the application was fraudulent.
CALL CAPITAL ONE PHONE NUMBER FULL
Then they wanted my date of birth which I reluctantly gave out ( oops), they said they couldn't find my name with that information and asked for my full social security number.
At first they asked just for the last 4 digits of my social security number which at first I was reluctant but thought, it's just the last 4. I called the number and they looked up the reference number but wanted information from me to verify myself. I didn't apply for a Walmart credit card, however the letter instructs me to provide: a Government photo ID of myself along with my taxpayer id number. I received a letter representing to be from Capital One saying: we're working on your recent application for a Walmart credit card, and need your help to ensure the information we have for your application is correct.
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