I did some more research on this phone number. It seems it belongs to a Publishing Company out of Florida who has never published anything!!

A front company for something or someone has been my findings when I come across company's like this.

Has anyone else on ATS gotten calls from this number? If you google this number it is amazing how many people have been getting weird calls from this number.

Maybe the phones that have received the calls from that number are newly 'bugged'... and they are just making a quick call to see if the bug is working OK ?

Could be an ongoing general monitoring of people who are inclined to visit CT Sites.

Just thinking aloud, sorry!

Last month they were calling all the time and I was about to loose my cool and smash my phone. They would call and ask for someone not me and hang up before I could say a word. It cant be a scam because they never wanted anything. It has to be something like wiretapping. I don't know what it is but lets try to figure this one out.

there is 7 pages of people leaving messages about people getting screwed....with calls and product.......this is some funny stuff ...I have tears in my eyes I'm laughing so hard...zip lock bags of baking soda... to fix your septic system.......It looks like it has been going on for years... I gotta go back and read some more...thanks for the laugh...it is sad though...ya,.,..sure..

ok...I think I solved this.

From what I can see they call people whom they think have a septic system. ie. farmers/ people that live in the country etc. They then try to force them to purchace some wierd thing called Septic Magic. If the person says no...they send it to them anyway. Then they try to force the person into paying by saying that if they don't it will go onto there credit report. Blackmail kind of thing. So...they are basic Florida scum trying to rip off people.

.....I did not mean to imply anything by the area code..954...I was just throwing around ideas that followed that area code....trying to see any weird corelation.

They seem to get some of their "clients" by having some "FREE LAPTOP" ad on the internet if you answer some lame question.

Upon questioning my wife about it she said she had filled out some "Free Laptop" ad that she saw on her Myspace page....She did this at about the same time as I had joined ATS.

So I think that answers the weird phone calls form area code 954.

While I haven't got a call from this number, I've had something similar happening to me this week. For the past few nights, twice a evening, I'll get a text-message from an unknown number, demanding to know who I am. I respond, but they ask again, this time with profanity.

Then again...maybe I just hooked up with a girl who lied about not being married, and her husband found out about it.

Originally posted by whiteraven
I did some more research on this phone number. It seems it belongs to a Publishing Company out of Florida who has never published anything!!

A front company for something or someone has been my findings when I come across company's like this.

I wouldn't just assume it's a front company. I worked in the publishing industry for a while. It was not an uncommon phenomenon to deal with small press publishers that never actually produce anything. You might get an book announcement, but it never manifests. Usually, these aren't really companies, but one or two people with lots of ambition but a lack of talent, ability or money working out of their home; they'll register their business at their home address to appear more professional. Or they'll open a small office in an office-park, but due to a lack of the aforementioned resources, close-up shop soon after.

I bet $10 this is the case with the location. I have no idea what's going on with the number...

I have been receiving calls from this number for the last 6 months off and on, all hours of the day and night. If anyone else has additional info I would appreciate it!

Mmmm, just a side-thought on this but perhaps whoever the mysterious they are who a making these calls are looking for someone and waiting to recieve the right answer in order to proceed forward.

In other words maybe they have voice recognition systems running and so when you answer the phone to this call the voice recognition system scans your voice looking for a certain voice print and those of whom are recieving multiple calls are being multiple scanned becuase their results are turn up as inconclusive.

I would also suggest that the number is a so-called "jacked" number.
I group in another state or country i have heard can hi-jack a phone number from a completely different area and use that number to make and recieve calls whilst staying completely untracable from it.

Just speculation i know but still worth a thought or two.

Has anyone contacted the FL Attorney General's Office? Most states have a Consumer Protection Division to handle this type of thing.

And since this is posted in Skunk Works...I'll suggest the most far-out, paranoid, delusional CT thing I could think of...maybe, just maybe, this is what precipitates the school shootings. A trigger of some sort - cuz ya just never know...

Okay. I'm done.

[edit on 21/2/08 by kosmicjack]