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    We've all had to deal with the same thing. Your phone rings 24/7 and shows no sign of stopping, but if ever you should pick up, all you hear is the incessant yabbering of a telemarketer or nothing at all. You're infuriated by the anonymous calls jamming your phone line. Is there some way of finding out who is on the other end? Do you pick up or leave it ringing? Who is calling?
    Sound familiar? There are thousands of people asking the same question every day. In response to this universal problem, tellows functions as an online database of telephone numbers associated with spam and scam activity reported by you, our users. By sharing your experiences with unknown numbers, you'll be providing vital warning information to other users unsure about whether or not to trust a certain caller. The more information is shared, the bigger the database grows and thus the chance of finding out who's at the end of that anonymous call becomes higher and higher. Thanks to the tellows app you can identify unknown callers on your iPhone and Android! Whilst you are at it, take a look at our various other useful tools in our tellows shop today.
    Here at tellows.com, not only can we provide up-to-date information on regional nuisance-call trends and currently active numbers with the heatmap, we also pinpoint the origin of your call and display it on a map by identifying the prefix.
    Used by over 200,000 people daily, tellows provides its services to people in over 47 countries, but tellows.com is geared specifically towards those residing in North America. Want to hear more? We have some light reading material that might be of interest to you. Check out our tellows blog for news on the latest scams, tellows products and updates in telecoms regulations that affect you or grab a copy of our free tellows magazine,which came together after our many years of experience on the subject of telephone terror and scams. This not only includes important background information about phone fraud but the methodology behind it.

    New unwanted phone numbers

    On tellows, thousands of phone numbers are reported by the community every day. Here you can find phone numbers that were reported for the first time and were classified as unwanted.
    1. godzilla-9 reported Readers Digest-not with the number ‎9148990180 as Sweepstakes, lottery

      4/26/24, 2:22 PM

      So many people won $9 million from Readers Digest they had to make a pre-recorded message. You will ...

      1 Rating for 9148990180 (Mamaroneck)
    2. The number ‎9144838667 has been assigned to unknown

      4/26/24, 12:19 PM

      ...

      2 Ratings for 9144838667 (Poughkeepsie)
    3. Tom reported posing as Medicare with the number ‎6789511337 as Telemarketer

      4/26/24, 4:04 PM

      Same India scam telemarketer ID theft group who have now called 500 times since 08/11/23 using diffe...

      1 Rating for 6789511337 (Georgia)
    4. Posing as Amazon (scam) has been reported with number ‎6783625196 as Harassment calls

      4/26/24, 4:16 PM

      Same India scam telemarketer ID theft group who have now called 501 times since 08/11/23 using diffe...

      1 Rating for 6783625196 (Georgia)
    5. No me interesa este tipo de llam reported Ventas-Compras with the number ‎7043608893 as SMS spam

      4/26/24, 12:46 PM

      No me interesa este tipo de llamadas desconocidas Spam...

      1 Rating for 7043608893 (North Carolina)
    6. Ahmed Habbibullah reported unknown with the number ‎8553337110 as Aggressive advertising

      4/26/24, 1:18 PM

      Scammer _big time - impersonating AT&T Direct TV - asks for your information and credit card number ...

      1 Rating for 8553337110 (Toll-free telephone number)
    7. Karen reported unknown with the number ‎+64220444044 as Telemarketer

      4/26/24, 12:25 AM

      Keeps raining everyday trying to sell health insurance...

      1 Rating for +64220444044 (Mobile Service (2degrees))
    8. Portfoliorecov has been reported with number ‎2292794049 as Debt collection company

      4/26/24, 4:36 PM

      ...

      1 Rating for 2292794049 (Georgia)
    9. unknown has been reported with number ‎19982404401 as Telemarketer

      4/26/24, 11:59 AM

      ...

      1 Rating for 19982404401 ()
    10. The number ‎3475917068 has been assigned to unknown

      4/26/24, 11:51 AM

      ...

      1 Rating for 3475917068 (New York)

    Recently added comments

    1. Portfoliorecov has been reported with number ‎2292794049 as Debt collection company

      4/26/24, 4:36 PM via Nize

      1 Rating for 2292794049 (Georgia)
    2. Posing as Amazon (scam) has been reported with number ‎6783625196 as Harassment calls

      4/26/24, 4:16 PM

      Same India scam telemarketer ID theft group who have now called 501 times since 08/11/23 using different numbers (I keep a full record w/dates & times, many calls also recorded w/some posted on YouTube (google: v3 YouTube telemarketer, mine is 1st). They screen the calls then xfer to US companies, of which I have exposed two: One Digital of Chicago, IL (312-756-8874) & Clear Link of Utah (801-424-0018).
      This call posed as Amazon claiming a laptop was purchased on my account & they wanted me to tell them my debit card number (I don’t use debit cards). This is an ID theft call. They often call posing as a cable company, Medicare & other Govt offices, banks (fake fraud dept scam), or selling health insurance, car warranties, solar panels, accident claims, loan scams, free internet deals, etc., in attempts to steal your ID & banking info. They have been told to stop calling 100’s of times but they won't stop & don’t care. Calling # back plays msg stating # does not accept incoming calls

      1 Rating for 6783625196 (Georgia)
    3. Tom reported posing as Medicare with the number ‎6789511337 as Telemarketer

      4/26/24, 4:04 PM

      Same India scam telemarketer ID theft group who have now called 500 times since 08/11/23 using different numbers (I keep a full record w/dates & times, many calls also recorded w/some posted on YouTube (google: v3 YouTube telemarketer, mine is 1st). They screen the calls then xfer to US companies, of which I have exposed two: One Digital of Chicago, IL (312-756-8874) & Clear Link of Utah (801-424-0018).
      This call claimed to be with US Healthcare saying my Medicare card was expired & I needed to tell them my account number & doctor before they would send a new one (no one in this home is of Medicare age). This is an ID theft call. They often call posing as a cable company, Medicare & other Govt offices, banks (fake fraud dept scam), or selling health insurance, car warranties, solar panels, accident claims, loan scams, free internet deals, etc., in attempts to steal your ID & banking info. They have been told to stop calling 100’s of times but they won't stop & don’t care.

      1 Rating for 6789511337 (Georgia)
    4. Jared reported The Coolest Air with the number ‎2542787800 as Trustworthy number

      4/26/24, 3:40 PM

      Called for routine hvac maintenance, this is the new company number for the business

      1 Rating for 2542787800 (Texas)
    5. The number ‎8339811372 has been assigned to unknown

      4/26/24, 2:43 PM via Nize

      1 Rating for 8339811372 (Toll-Free)

    Where does the information on telephone numbers come from?

    Huge amounts of data are entered into tellows sites worldwide each day - further comments on existing numbers as well as entirely new number profiles from first-time searches - all thanks to our users. User contributions are key to tellows' central function: the tellows score. Each time information on a number is given, the information is put through a complex algorithm to generate a trustworthiness rating, on a scale of 1-9. The respective score is clearly displayed at the top of the profile page for each number, making identifying an unknown caller possible in a matter of seconds and saving you not only time, but the frustration of dealing with annoying sales calls.


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