Trying to get bank account number AGAIN!!
Complaint
Ann
Country: United States
My mother just received another unsolicited phone call from a company called "First Consumer"--when I dialed that number last night is what the machine said, I just called now and the message said Fraud Watch?!
I think it may be tied in to her money fraud from InterBen as they have all of her information.
They acted like they were going to give her back some of the money that they electronically took out of her bank account--they even went so far as to give her a case file number. This company uses the amount of $279.00 with the calls that they make according to my Mom's experience and what I have found about them on the internet.
The number they gave her to call is 855-649-0679.
I think it may be tied in to her money fraud from InterBen as they have all of her information.
They acted like they were going to give her back some of the money that they electronically took out of her bank account--they even went so far as to give her a case file number. This company uses the amount of $279.00 with the calls that they make according to my Mom's experience and what I have found about them on the internet.
The number they gave her to call is 855-649-0679.
Comments
"For Release: 05/21/2013
FTC Seeks Public Comment on Proposal to Ban Payment Methods Favored in Fraudulent Telemarketing Transactions
In an ongoing effort to protect consumers from deceptive telemarketing, the Federal Trade Commission seeks public comment on proposed amendments to strengthen the Telemarketing Sales Rule’s protections against bogus charges and services.
The Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking announced today would curtail the use of four payment methods favored by con artists and scammers. The proposed changes would:
Stop telemarketers from dipping directly into consumer bank accounts by using unsigned checks and “payment orders” that have been “remotely created.” These instruments can make it easy for unscrupulous telemarketers to debit bank accounts without permission, according to the FTC.
Bar telemarketers from getting paid with traditional “cash-to-cash” money transfers, as well as “cash reload” mechanisms, that scammers rely on to get money quickly and anonymously from consumer victims.
The FTC has found that unscrupulous telemarketers rely on these payment methods because they are largely unmonitored and provide consumers with fewer protections against fraud. The FTC’s proposed changes to the TSR would make it a violation for telemarketers and sellers to accept any of these payment methods in any telemarketing transaction.
The proposed changes also would expand the TSR’s ban on telemarketing “recovery services” in exchange for an advance fee. In the Commission’s experience, telemarketers who call consumers offering to help recover losses they suffered through an earlier fraud are often engaged in deceptive practices. Currently limited to offers to recoup losses suffered in a prior telemarketing transaction, the existing ban would be expanded to include offers to recoup losses suffered in any prior transaction.