leave me alone!

seems like they have found me. i received a phone call from the phone number 866-383-0986 this afternoon, and of course i never answer phone calls from numbers i don’t recognize. if it’s important then they will leave a message and i will call them back (if i see fit ). anyway, for strange numbers i usually google them to see what i can come up with. so i did so with this one and the large search result was not promising, which means this is some type of scam or phishing scheme call. after reading other people’s posts on their blogs about the number, turns out it was some type of fax number scam (reason #8967 blogs are awesome!).

and, for the last two weeks i have been getting a call everyday from 212-798-9291, which i knew was in new york and at first excited me since i have been applying for jobs in nyc recently. but of course they never left a message… and called every single day at least once, sometimes more than that. what next? google it as it’s not a call regarding a job i’ve applied for! i find out its the number for register.com, who i used to have several domains registered with until i transfered them all the the much cheaper godaddy.com. i have been missing their damn phone calls to find out what they want… must be a sales call as i no longer have any domains registered with them anymore. finally today i was here to answer the call and they were notifying me about my weatherquests.com domain about to expire in a couple of days. i was like, um no i transfered that to another registrar a while back and it still has at least a year left before expiration. so he said to hold while he checks on his end and sure enough…he found that i was right. upon realizing this, he replied ’sure enough it’s registered through godaddy. ok then, sorry about that, and we will fix that in our system’ and then quickly hung up.

ggrrr! calling every day without verifying your accounts database is totally ridiculous!