Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Survey or Sales Call? 571-522-6400

I just got a phone call from a Virginia number 571-522-6400. It was an automated "survey" about Health Insurance, and started asking questions to qualify potential customers, e.g. Would you be interested in buying reasonably priced Health Insurance? Are you older than 25? Are you younger than 65? Etc...

I'm on the Do not Call list, I'll do some more research into it and post it. A simple goggle search does not recognize the number, I will try some other sources.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I started receiving the calls today - according to caller ID they have called me three times today - it is identified as ER PR.

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I was unable to find information on the Internet in regards to the phone number, without paying for a reverse phone number lookup. My Caller Id just said Virginia Number.

I am wondering where they got my number from, as I am currently looking and applying for Health Insurance.

Anonymous said...

I have the same number and the name on it says "AETR, INC.". We are also on a DO NOT CALL LIST, don't these people understand what that means??

Anonymous said...

I'm also on do not call and have been getting calls for ER PR - they are very persistant, but if I don't recognize the number - I don't answer. It is very anoying!

Anonymous said...

If you Google the number, you'll find another blog entry that has the number offering porn videos.

They've called us too. Same story - on the Do Not Call. I wonder what we all have in common?

Anonymous said...

Followup explains it. The other blog (which I hadn't finished) figured out that it was Push Polling, which is political and therefore not covered by the Do Not Call list. (They gauged his reaction to the porn, decided he was for them (i.e. not happy about hearing about hardcore porn in the morning?) and then the same number called with a political survey.) I say publish the number far and wide, asking people not to answer it.

Anonymous said...

I received this today 7pm did not answer it said ER PR!

Anonymous said...

I got a call from this number that was a guy claiming to sell me hardcore porn. When he started describing the acts therein, I yelled and hung up.

Two days later I got a 'bot' political survay from the same number that would have appealed to someone who was angry about porn.

Political calls are exempt from the do not call list, are they not?

Anonymous said...

I rcvd a called from this number late on a Sunday evening. I didn't answer because I didn't recognize. They left no message, caller ID says "Braddock VA". Polls and surveys are exempt from do not call list, but if you answer the call, then specifically asked not to be called again and they aren't supposed to.

Anonymous said...

I just got a call and answered it--it was from Curt Weldon who is a in the US House of Rep from PA--giving an automated poll--guess what--he just lost my vote and i am going to now campaign against him!!