The phone is ringing, and I don't recognize the number,
All Caller ID says is, "NAME UNAVAILABLE".
Please help me figure out who is calling and what they want

Valentine & Kebartas, Inc.

See also whocalled.us (Valentine and Kebartas).

A rather aggressive collection agency known to get cheap DID's (phone numbers) using VOIP providers local to their targets to trick people into answering their phones. Should you call the number back from a different phone using *67 the number will identify itself as Valentine & Kebartas.

It seems as though they use an Asterisk-based PBX and get new DIDs wherever they are collecting. They don't have a St. Louis office, yet they are calling from an area code 636 number in some cases. When called back, you get a tell-tale Asterisk (rather, TrixBox) bug where the greeting starts playing before the channel is fully connected, so it sounds like it starts midway-through.

If that's true, they will keep coming up with more and more numbers, as DIDs (dial id's, phone numbers) for VOIP channels are cheap. At least in the case of the numbers I've personally seen, they are getting throwaway DIDs from peerlessnetwork.com Peerless Network, whose site already appears to be very sketcy, with little description of who they are or what their business is.

Further reading can be found at their website:

http://www.vnkinc.com/

Also at Ripoff Report

http://www.ripoffreport.com/collection-agency-s/vki-valentine-kebart/vki-valentine-kebartas-thi-c3edc.htm

and the Complaints Board

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/valentine-amp-kebartas-c173375.html

Valentine & Kebartas, Inc. calls from 20 phone numbers:

800-462-4884 877-250-7416 866-598-2788 800-731-7766 978-687-0296 208-639-6839 978-687-1354 208-955-7218 978-687-0584 941-803-3003 978-687-0142 208-639-4428 978-332-5480 314-627-5854 636-323-4445 636-323-4446 636-529-0122 900-000-0000 484-224-1346 888-648-4120

Who Called Us

Valentine & Kebartas, Inc.