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(713) 696-5500

is a Nonprofit Robocall

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This number also appears as 713-696-5500, 7136965500, (713) 696-5500

  • Risk Level:very-high
  • Carrier:AT&T Southwest
  • Location:Houston, Texas
  • Line Type:Landline
  • Recording:
  • Transpript:Hello? Hi, my name is Tatiana with Clothing Pickup calling on behalf of Paralyzed Veterans. Would you like to donate? Hello?

About Houston

Houston is the largest city in Texas and is located in the southeast of the state. It is known for its cultural diversity, as it has a large Hispanic and African American population. The city is located near the Gulf of Mexico, making it an important port and commercial center. The area code for Houston is 713, 281, and 832, while the zip code varies by area. Unfortunately, Houston is also known for being a city with a high incidence of fraudulent calls. Common types include phone scams related to false taxes or public services, as well as unwanted automated calls to sell deceptive products or services. To protect yourself against these fraudulent calls, you can use Realcall to intercept them before answering.

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20 user reports for (713) 696-5500

Mar 10, 2023NacomanrandysavageCaller Name: HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACEGeneral spam

scam requesting money

Nov 21, 2022laveijaGeneral spam

This is a legitimate charity but they are persistent and a nuisance

Nov 10, 2022Tony T 10000Caller Name: DonationsTelemarketing call

Scammers

Nov 8, 2022pineapple_piCaller Name: UnknownGeneral spam

No message

Oct 27, 2022tannecobbCaller Name: Houston AchievementGeneral spam

Clothing Donations

Oct 17, 2022DisneyFan7290General spam

I've asked them to stop calling

Sep 16, 2022MindoggieGeneral spam

Unknown

Sep 9, 2022fun237Scam call

scam

Aug 19, 2022Orlando KenCaller Name: TexasGeneral spam

f*****g annoying

Jul 14, 2022JollysaintrickolasCaller Name: FRAUD charity donationsScam call

Fake fundraising scam asking for donations that they keep for themselves. This is a fake charity fundraising scam! 99% of these unsolicited phone calls from fake charity fundraisers that pretend to raise money for veterans, police, firefighters, breast cancer, leukemia and other cancers, autism, colleges and schools, the NRA, political organizations, and other seemingly worthy causes are ALL SCAMS!! If you want to donate to these causes, do your own research, research the Charity Navigator website, and you will find reputable charities that actually donate most of the collected money to the actual cause that they represent. All these other fake fundraising scams rotate through various charity causes every day and keep all of the collected money for themselves, some of these fake fundraisers purposely overcharge your credit card thousands of dollars and then disappear, and they all really ruin the trust that people have for the reputable charities. Many of these fake fundraising scammers use automated interactive voice response (IVR) software that sounds very human, but you are initially talking to a software-based robot who asks you some questions and responds based on your replies before transferring you to the real scammer who steals your credit card number under the pretense of raising money for a variety of fake causes that these scammers rotate through every day. The human scammer often says they will mail you an envelope so you can mail your donation in, but then they immediately still ask for your credit card number. The robot caller usually begins the call with either a pleasant female voice or a stern male voice asking, "Hi, this is (fake_name), how are you doing today?", "Hi, is the head of the household there?", or "Hi, is (your first name) there?" Scammers often use IVR robo-dialing to automatically match the name that the robot asks for on the phone call to the name that is associated with millions of phone numbers and addresses on phone marketing databases that anyone can purchase. Many of the thousands of India phone scammers also use these same phone databases and they often ask for you by name to sound like a personal phone call to gain your trust. If you reply "No, John is not here" or "No, you have the wrong number", the IVR robot is programmed to say "Maybe you can help me" and still ask you for a scam donation. All of these IVR robot-based fundraising scams have been robo-dialing using the same IVR software voices and scripted dialogues for years now, only varying the charity/cause that they falsely support from week to week. During the holiday months of November and December, these scammers usually change their IVR recordings to say they are fundraising for cancer research, autism, veterans, etc. During other times, they pretend to raise money for police, the NRA, political organizations, schools, etc. More than 90% of all North America scam phone calls originate from crowded phone rooms in India and the Philippines that run numerous fraud, extortion, and money laundering scams every day. Some fake charity donation scams are also run by American scammers. Like all the other Indian and Filipino scammers, these fake donation scams spoof thousands of fake Caller ID names and numbers so you can never call them back on the fake number that shows up on Caller ID. Nowadays, NEVER trust any unsolicited caller who supposedly represents a charity, a pharmacy, a Medicare or car/health/life insurance offer, a computer support person saying your computer has a virus, a fake robotic recording of a Social Security or IRS officer saying your Social Security has been suspended or you have unpaid back taxes, a fake debt collector threatening you for fake debts, a fake recording from Amazon/Microsoft/Apple/Verizon/AT&T/bank, anyone who phones you with any kind of sales offer (more than 90% of unsolicited sales calls are scams so your odds of saving money are very poor), any kind of legal or arrest threats, any claims of suspicious activity on an account, any claims of refunds or auto-renewed/auto-debited accounts, and any pre-recorded messages. Any unsolicited caller with a foreign accent (nearly always Indian or Filipino) should immediately be treated as a scam until carefully proven otherwise. Scammers usually use VoIP phone numbers or spoof fake Caller ID numbers that they frequently change every day. Legitimate businesses never use hundreds of area codes and tens of thousands of fake Caller ID phone numbers where you cannot call them back. They are all FAKE and they all try to steal your credit card or Social Security numbers, or they ask for your bank and personal identity information. Anyone, including you, can use telecom software or a third-party service to phone using fake names and phone numbers that show up on Caller ID. It is really very simple and easy to avoid phone and email scams - if you assume all unsolicited calls are malicious in intent, you will never be scammed and have thousands of dollars or your identity stolen from you. Sometimes I love to play with these scammers by pretending to be a gullible target and stringing them along on the phone call for 30 or 60 minutes so I can at least waste their time and prevent them from scamming someone else while I cook and eat and toy with them.

Jul 3, 2022Chickyt15Caller Name: Charity Cloth DonationGeneral spam

Spam

May 18, 2022Ace-SaxtonCaller Name: Clothing Donation ScamScam call

This place is a SCAM! They're "houston achievement place" or "family thrift" Let me give you the run down on this place.. this place is called in fact HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE and they do come and collection clothing donations in the Houston ares .. BUT it's a whole scam. They get these clothes for FREE from DONATIONS saying they're giving to the youth and families in need and some things are being sold to gain money for some homeless program but it's literally false information! They sell your donations to people at some t****t shop named FAMILY THRIFT in south Houston and they sell certain things .99c on thursdays.

Apr 27, 2022Amelia1939General spam

Scam

Apr 22, 2022Ehamp70477General spam

Donation request

Mar 28, 2022Jtomega7General spam

Unsolicited

Mar 8, 2022SpotSpot WorthingtonGeneral spam

Charity donation request

Feb 15, 2022BadichonCaller Name: Charity Clothing DonationGeneral spam

I’ve had calls from them during the day and sometimes even at night.

Jan 12, 2022anointed vessalGeneral spam

Bad reputation for stealing donations

Dec 11, 2020sjjdhdjdhhdCaller Name: To help children who have or have had cancer.General spam

NCCS- Nat’l Children’s Cancer Society. They send a truck to pick up your donations and this is by appointment only.

Oct 2, 2020good job 53General spam

Charity clothing pickup

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