Who Called Us

This number has called my phone six times in two days. Its a non english speaking person want to talk to registered voters in the house. Do not call should apply to politcal ads and surveys.

Asked to speak to a specific member of our household regarding a survey.

Hung up when answered.

called 3 times in 2 hours, never left a message

Political survey

What I want to know is how they get cell numbers that arent given out.

This number has called multiple times past week. will call and no one is on the line. Has called 2-3 tme per day, usually one around 5:30-6:00 pm and one 8-9 pm. We are on the do not call list.

I just got a call from this number. Only thing on Caller ID was the number. Said Hello and was greeted by silence. Its 2:15 on a Saturday afternoon.

TO ALL who have been getting phone calls that are on a, do not call list, have unlisted numbers and so on.
I have been getting calls from the above number and others.
So to get even, I warn them 1st to please stop calling. If they will not stop, I tell them, they will hear the following, I BLOW A WHISTLE into the phone. It's just too bad. Some of my friends are also using horns, pots with a spoon, etc.
I have told my congressman, gave a list of the numbers, and nothing stops these people who do not understand the word NO.

So far I have been getting only one or two calls a day and noticed a major vast improvement.
I guess losing your hearing is more important, then making a call.
I know I and many normal people, would stop calling people who gave you an earful of a whistle!
Good Luck and pass on the whistle idea.

Been receiving calls from this number almost every night 8-9pm. First time she just asked if there were registered voters in the household. I said no (a lie) and hung up. From then on, I just pick up the phone and hang it right back up, disconnecting them. Sometimes, that might backfire as they just want to know what is a good time to catch you home. I hate these people and WHY would they
call and not say anything, doesn't make sense. I'm going to report to the FTC.

dead air, no one on the other end, but they keep calling

calls all the time but never says nothing.

They called twice today. There is a front end recording greeting where a female claims that it is not a sales call and asks to speak to the head of household. When I responded, no one responded. I think that they just robocalling numbers. If someone answers one of the lines then the others go unanswered, like mine today. So I believe that their autodialer will call again.

A little research shows that this is a survey research company called Opinionology from Orem, UT (the caller ID of "Ogden UT" is just a diversion). They were previously "Western Wats". They have a web site, westernwats.com, but you need a login and password to glean any survey results - probably for paid clients only. They have an EU Safe Harbor Truste affiliation, so they are probably a global company. I really don't think that they are trying to harrass anyone, because that would not get respondents. Their autodialer and response techniques may be a little aggressive, however.

Anytime the politicans throw their hats in the ring, we start getting these phone calls, so that's my guess. It happened before the previous preesidential election, and I'm sure that it will go on for this one as well. They'll try a number of times and flag your number then just quit calling. Don't get your blood pressure up. Stay cool. ;) :)

They have called 2 times tonight. The last call was at 8:58 PM and they do not leave messages. We are on the Do Not Call list. If they call back and it is a survey, I will have fun with them and make up random answers LOL

Just came home and found this number and Ogden UT on my caller ID.

They didn't have the courtesy to leave a message.

Called and asked to speak to the head of household.... 801-823-2023 / 6:53PM ( PST ) Ogden, Utah . I tole them to take my name off any all their lists, I would NOT accept their calls, and would not tell them anything.. GO AWAY !!!!

These people continue to call my house and then hang up when I say hello. My husband had answered the phone and she had wanted to know personal information about him, and then wanted him to do a survey. When he had answered the phone (cindy) had answered the phone and asked for an adult in the household.So since she was on speaker phone, my husband and I were both talking to her. She didnt speak english, and kept rambling on making him say definite no or yes, for a question she would tell him to answer yes or no. Then my husband had to leave the room for a min. and I went to go finish the survey and she got smart with me and told me she refused to take us off of their calling list. I told her this is harassment and it will be reported if she continued to keep us on the calling list. I asked her for the company name and she told me target.consultants, that is all she gave me. She got a bigger attitude with me and hung the phone up.

Called three times today. On the third call their number displayed. I was on the phone with a relative so I did not answer this call but as soon as I was off the phone I blocked their number...then I looked them up here and I am glad I did. I have the Panasonic phone listed below and I love the call blocking option. This is a great feature and I do make use of it.......the DNC registry does not work with surveys - but callblock certainly does!

calls every evening about 7-8 PM for about 2 weeks now. Does not leave message. If we answer, no one is there and then they hang up.

They keep calling asking for a registered voter. Now, why a few, "STOP CALLING US" comments wouldn't stop the calls is beyond me. Possibly, next time I will answer the survey, and LIE, LIE, LIE!

actually before some time create the another problem so i am disturb so i tell you don't take risk...........


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Looking for a registered voter for a survey. I just hung up on them and have now blocked them.

Have called six times looking for a registered voter.

It's a survey company, they want you to take a survey about your electricity usage.

In this era of number spoofing and CID munging there is no absolute certainty, which is why these mystery caller databases exist. You'll sometimes have to compare the comments you find against the pattern and content of calls you receive to make a positive ID.

I do not know who this company is... every time they call, I answer the phone and there is silence on the other end. I am dumb founded at all of the other comment: one comment is that the company is a voting or survey company, another is a bill collector, and the other is prank calling. I am concerned because we have a private phone number and we do not know how this person got our information.

I think these folks, and all the other callers like them, have multiple numbers now, so even using call block doesn't stop the calls completely. But I do block them. And I don't answer the phone EVER unless I know who is calling. If it's important, anyone would leave a message. If they call multiple times without leaving a message, I just block them because then it's obvious they don't even know me and have no legitimate reason to call me. No more interruptions.

Caller asked for male adult of the family

"Jeff
Caller thought she had a live person, but was really caught up in voicemail....she kept asking "for a registered voter....hello is anyone there"? She then hung up, but has called two more times this evening."

I had this exact same thing happen on my work phone!

I'm going to call them back and tell them to remove me from their list. Because they are calling regarding voters, they are allowed by law to call even if you're on the DNC registry. It stinks, but look who wrote the laws!

they called several times today since 2:30 this afternoon, until 8:30pm this evening. According to my caller id they called 6 times.

Called 2 times in a row left voice mail asking if there was a registered voter in the home. This is like the 4th time in a week!

They left no message. We don't pick up if we don't recognize the name or number.

They called with my full name and wanted to know if I was voting. This was a woman's voice.

Hello good afternoon this is Kate Gonzales and I'd like to speak to ...

We recieved a call from this number and what sounded like a woman saying something in a sing-song voice to scare us on our answering service. My wife was shaking when she heard it and thought it was spooky. How do we stop this person from making future calls?

stop calling my phone the # 772 873 1123

No one said anything when I answered

Caller thought she had a live person, but was really caught up in voicemail....she kept asking "for a registered voter....hello is anyone there"? She then hung up, but has called two more times this evening.

Got 3 calls in a row did not answer and they did not leave a message-801-823-2023 I am in zip cpode 63026

They called my crop ph 3x this evening ( I have DNC) last one was at 9:20 pm
--- first call I thought it was a robot --- last two calls no one...

Just received a call from 801-823-2023 asking for my husband regarding a survey.. I told her, "no, no, no" and hung up. She then called back and left the following message, "F_uck You".....nice

Did not answer.

Call in the afternoon for the past 3 days (July 6-8, 2010). They have called before. Always no one speaks and after saying hello three times I hand up.

They call 3-4 times a day the other number is 8018232021

Did not answer

Forien accent, may be asian,a survey from my bank wants to know about my service.Since I know the people at my bank, I absolutely know this is a bothersome and hounding call. Never get to what they really want, I just keep telling them to STOP calling. They just won't stop...

Report them to your State Attorney General by phone or their Web site,Also report your calls to FTC
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They wanted me to participate in a survey of problems the Country is facing. I told them I was not interested as I have before. I get a call from this company about once a week!

Could not understand her. Told her to call back when she got a better phone or connection.

I told the woman she has a reputation from one end of this country to the other and never to call my number again. Further investigation shows she works for westernwats.com, a national research/survey firm.

Frankly, I don't believe it, it was too easy to gather information about it.

I'll make the necessary federal reports to the appropriate agencies.

Hung up

Western Wats
801 823-2023
westernwats.com
701 East Timpanogos Parkway
Building M
Orem, UT 84097
Phone: 801.373.7735

Western Wats
801 823-2023
westernwats.com
701 East Timpanogos Parkway
Building M
Orem, UT 84097
Phone: 801.373.7735

Caller ID showed "Out of area" and phone number (801) 823-2023. Left no message.

Have called 30 times in past couple days. Noone on other end.

I've met some of the people who work at this number. Most have police records (and a few are on sexual offender lists). So if they ask for the youngest member of the household, the person is not following the correct survey and off to get their jolly's off.

Calls but doesn't answer

I called the number back, but blocked my caller ID so they wouldn't know it was me. The recording said the company is called Western Wats, and that they do market research. Their website address is WesternWats.com. Let's try to get them on a few spam lists so they can be annoyed like we are!

I called the number back, but blocked my caller ID so they wouldn't know it was me. The recording said the comapny is called Western Wats, and that they do market research. Their website address is WesternWats.com. Let's try to get them on a few spam lists so they can be annoyed like we are!

When you answer either nobody is there or there is a delay. These calls are computer dialed by the thousands and when you pick up, they're transferred to a "live" person who is usually difficult to understand. If a telemarketer isn't available at that moment, you get hung up on. I used to wonder why anyone would call just to hang up. Anyway, I finally got sick of these calls every day so I boughtt a Telezapper on eBay for 10 bucks. It's well worth it. The calls have definitely slowed down alot!

They left a message yesterday and the caller is a female who is very hard to understand. She runs her words together and has an accent. I answered the phone today to hear the same woman asking for the youngest male member of my household. Being that the youngest male member of my household is 9 years old...I demanded to know who she was. She sounded annoyed by my questions and said it was a "veryinterestinggovernmentsurvey". I told her if it had anything to do with the government that I wanted NOTHING to do with it! She quickly hung up.

Folks, I believe the reason these people get away with calling, in spite of the do not call list, is one of a few things:

1. Any company or affiliate you do any business with is at least partially exempt from the DNC rules. That means your bank, insurance, online and brick/mortar stores if you have provided them your phone number, mortgage co, utilities, credit cards, etc., or any company that they are affiliated with can call you no matter what your status on the DNC list is. You have to separately and individually opt out with these companies, and I believe you need to update your opt out status every so often.
2. Survey companies, such as this, can often get around DNC because they are not selling anything. It's the same way campaign calls are exempt from DNC.
3. New phone numbers have a certain grace period before they have to honor DNC, so a lot of businesses simply get new phone numbers every so often. They do this deliberately to skirt DNC, getting new numbers right before the old ones would become subject to DNC.
4. The DNC fines are small potatoes to companies making a lot of money calling people. Many companies simply choose to violate DNC and pay the penalties when they are caught, because they know that, statistically, they are only going to be caught on rare occasion. To them, it's worth it to keep violating the law because they only get caught a small % of the time and the penalties are very small compared to the revenues they earn from calling anyhow. It's a numbers game and, to them, the benefits far outweigh the penalties. The reward makes the risk worthwhile.
5. Offshore companies are virtually exempt from DNC because the US laws cannot be enforced where the US has no legal jurisdiction.

So, it isn't that DNC doesn't work, it's that there are too many loopholes. We need to pressure our legislators to tighten the loopholes. Make it a lot more difficult and expensive for the companies to get around DNC and we will get fewer annoying calls, at least from domestic companies (it's a lot harder to keep foreign companies from calling). Instead of spending time posting on these websites, we should instead be spending our time filing complaints with the FCC and trying to get our legislators to make the laws tougher. And, most importantly, we need to educate our friends and family. If people stopped buying things/enrolling in services/participating in surveys, there would be no money in making these calls and, by definition, they would stop. No company is going to stay in business when they aren't making money. These companies only make money when people take their calls and participate in what the caller is pitching (whether it's something that requires spending money or merely responding to a survey). It only takes a tiny percentage of calls to "pay off" by buying what they are selling or answering their questions if they are doing a survey to make it worthwhile for these companies. If we make it more difficult for these calls to yield anything, they will eventually call less often and eventually stop calling altogether. This is the most crucial part of the puzzle because even if we tighten the DNC laws and penalties for violation, if there's still money to be made in calling people, the business will simply move offshore where it is a lot more difficult or even impossible to enforce DNC laws. However, if the revenue stream from these calls dries up, so too will the calls.

They call every couple of days, at least once. Called it back, went to their website, and called the number. There's an option to be put on the do not call list - let's see if it works. This organization is awful - I don't understand how they even make any money. EVERY TIME I have picked up there was nobody there! Maybe they simply make up information for their clients - wouldn't be surprised.

Why would they never speak? Maybe the callers are paid per call and they just want to keep dialing - it's weird.

Call just came in...so it seems...so many scam calls are coming in. I don' pick up.

I wish these "people" would stop calling. This time I pushed "2" and got live operator. I let him have it with some four letter words and told them NOT TO CALL AGAIN!!! I doubt it did any good, but it wasted some of his time too.

They have been on caller ID 4 times in the last two days . . .and just called tonight at 9pm. I finally answered and they asked to speak to the male voter in the house. I have filed a formal complaint with the Do Not Call registry. I encourage everyone who is tired of these calls to do the same!

If the "Do Not Call" law doesnt stop these people from calling, what is the next step to take this jerk down? I am so ready to get rid of my land line phone. They have no right to call and then not say anything or hang up or not leave a message. No right at all.

They just called me at 9:30 at night on a Sunday..and just like Isabelle stated they did not say anything. Grrr

I just had this number show up on my caller ID. No message left. Now I have a chance to use the new call block feature of my new phone!

It's me again. I was so mad after reading how many people they bothered (there are several websites with complaints about this number) that I went to the FCC website and filed a complaint online. Everyone should do this!
Just go to fcc.gov, look at the links on the left, click on Contacting the FCC, then look under To Obtain Information via E-mail or Online Form and click on File a Complaint. Then choose your complaint type, click Next at the bottom and it will lead you through the steps to file an online complaint.

Time: 18:20 EST (US) Call about a servey.... Told them I wasn't interested ... Also informed them I am on a do not call list... was told that my number was computer generated ... (BS! IMHO) Hung up on them. This is the 2nd call from the same number today.

They call every day, sometimes 2 and 3 times a day. Sometimes they call at 9:30pm! This has been going on for weeks. They never say anything when I answer, just silence. I called the number back and got an automated message saying that they are Western Wats, a survey company. I'm going to see what I can do about these morons!!

These morons called 6-8 times repeatedly but never answered. Good thing too.

Hung up when answered. They know not to talk to me because my wife did not answer. We are on the do not call list as well, which is also worthless.

Called me with a "local government" survey. Ended with "information that will help correlate responses" including number of people in household, age and, most disturbing, my name. I refused and she ended the call.

This is the second time today this number has called. One a 7:53 pm and one at 4:42 pm today. They never leave a message and it is annoying.

Well...it's 5:51 p.m. and within the last two hours I've received 3) calls from whomever this is. I have no clue - there is never a message left and I'm not picking it up!

9:15pm I mean PM and 9:48pm I wish I could bold the PM part! The phone rang from these maroons...when I answered (startled of course)they woke my husband up...no one calls after 9pm they said thank for for taking this call and hung up! It was a live voice ,nice,young girl! Must not know the law about telemarketing after 9pm. Well rude awaking today! I have contacted my local Consumer protection office and the FTC...The do not call list is not working! I am MAD!!!!!!!!! You have went too far this time and pissed off the wrong person! See you in court!

westernwats,a data collection company. westernwats.com
they call and leave a burping sound on my voicemail. Not worth the bother to pick up the phone.
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Woman called, asked urgently (by name) for the person who signed up for our family plan. We JUST signed up and got the phones activated no less than 2 hours ago, so I thought something had gone wrong. She sounded very urgent and demanded to speak to _____ _____ (blanking out the name here). I said she is not available but I will take a message. She insisted it is very important and urgent and demanded to know if I had been in a T-mobile store recently. Now I am in a panic. I didn't purchase the plan, so I said no, then she hung up. Weird. Now I see it was a scam, but she had the full name of the person who just bought this family plan hours ago!!

Three more hang ups from 801-823-2020 (which also comes in as 2021, 2022, 2023), and finally called Western Watts Data, a corporate phone survey company in Utah, which uses these lines. The central number is: 801-373-7735. Press "2" to get the "do not call" registry. I left a message, and lo and behold, five minutes later I got yet another call from 823-2020. This time I answered and a woman said she was conducting a survey for JPMorganChase Bank. Her voice on the line sounded digitized, but she was a real person, and I told her that if she didn't remove me from the call list, I would complain to the FCC and report the company to JPMorganChase. Not sure how much good this will do, but it's worth trying to call Western Watts to complain.

hung up on answering machine three times in two hours

Marketing, wanted me to participate in 12 to 15 minute survey.

I'm actually grateful to have received so many calls from this number... It finally motivated me to install the Asterisk PBX script. :)

Called at 8:45PM, after my kid had gone to bed. I hate these people. There MUST be some way to stop these idiots. Signing up for the Do Not Call list apparentlyl doesn't work. We're now getting calls every night between 8 and 9 from various numbers, unknown numbers, etc., always after my child has gone to bed. I would get rid of my land line if I could.

Receiving three calls per day--morning, early evening and 8:45 pm. Started a couple of days ago. 12/4/2008.

Called @ 7:27pm on 12/3 - left no msg.

This firm has called me over 12 times in one day. I keep asking them to STOP calling me.. I have already reported the firm and the phone number to the FTC. I'm not sure how they got my cell phone number, but this is driving me nuts.

Number: 801-823-2023

10-22-08
7:19 pm

Less than 3 minutes after a call from 801-823-2020, which I screened, I received this call from virtually the same number. They claimed to be a polling firm and wanted to ask me political questions. After a few questions, it became apparent the questions were phrased in a manner to produce a positive feeling toward Republicans and negative feelings toward Democrats; that is, it was a "push" poll. I refused to answer any more questions and demanded the name of the firm behind the poll. They are the Winston Group (found online at WinstonGroup.net).

This number called on 10/17/08 at around 8:45pm. When I picked up I heard a loud beep like someone was still dialing, then a distant-sounding voice that said they were such-and-such with some marketing research firm doing a survey. She sounded East Indian, pronounced Saint Louis "Sant Louise" the background noise sounded like 1000 other people talking. I told her I didn't have the time for a survey and after I hanging up I blocked the number.

In the last couple of days we've also had several dead-air calls from 801-823-2021, the same number as this - except for the last digit. I'd blocked that after the third call. Wish I could block everything from a given exchange.