Cosmos mystery house yelp7/13/2023 ![]() ![]() I called my phone company to ask for help. Greeley Pest Control does not seem to exist. I learned this when I called the building’s office, which is also how I also learned that there is no unit or suite 1401. If this was just a mixup regarding where the phone calls were going, surely the business owner would want to know why they weren’t getting any calls.īut it turned out that the listed address isn’t a business, but a federally subsidized senior low income housing apartment complex. I took a closer look at the address associated with the business to see if I could find another phone number associated with it. If this was a scam to get business, surely the phone number needed to go to the entity collecting the money. But that still didn’t explain why the number was ringing my phone. ![]() Perhaps a startup exterminator (it had no ratings on Yelp yet) was posing as a brand name exterminator in order to get business. (I have redacted it from the photos because I still don’t know what the hell and I don’t want to invite more trouble.) It even had a clip art-style logo.įor a moment I thought maybe some part of this made sense. However, there is a business called Greeley Pest Control LTD that listed the same phone number that was routing to my phone. The first thing I tried to figure out is whether I could talk to someone at the real Orkin in Greeley, which is how I figured out that there is no Orkin in Greeley. Soon, I was getting more calls and a lot of hangups. And yet, if you dialed that number, either by tapping the call icon displayed next to the result or by dialing the number directly, the call went to my phone. Except for the area code, it wasn’t anything close to my number. The really weird thing was that the number that displayed when you clicked on the Orkin result was not my number. My sister in Denver got me on the line when she tapped to call Orkin, and so did a friend in Boston. And when I tapped on the icon to call Orkin, my phone beeped to indicate that I was receiving a call. When I got off the phone with her, I did exactly what she had done. She told me that she’d used her smart phone to search for “pest control” in Greeley, Colorado, and then she’d clicked on the result for Orkin Pest Control to call that number. This time, I asked the caller to explain the exact process by which she’d ended up calling me. How was he getting my number from Yelp if my number wasn’t listed on Yelp?Īnd then I got another call. It wasn’t coming up on google searches either. But when I went to Yelp and did the search the guy had described, my number was nowhere to be found. The idea that my unlisted number was now featured on Yelp as the place to call when you’re looking for an exterminator made me want to bury my phone in a deep hole. I told him it wasn’t and by the way, how did you get this number? “It was the second thing that came up on Yelp when I searched for ‘pest control in Greeley, Colorado,’” he said. I figured it was a wrong number, and didn’t think anything more of it, until I got another call from a guy asking me if this was Orkin Pest Control. ![]()
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