phone call harrassment
Complaint
Karen Inman
Country: United States
This scam has been operating here in Ohio for months. They won't respond to the number on the web. We are getting electronic messages 2 and 3 times a day. How may I get my phone number removed from these people? Karen Inman
Comments
These scumbags goal is to get you to reveal your credit card information and your personal information. What they do with it after that is very likely to cause you enormous grief.
Don't bother attempting to be removed from their calling list. Pressing any key on your phone merely confirms that your phone number is valid. I use a device called 'Intelliscreener' to block them - either by number, or name. It responds with SIT tones to tell the robo-dialer that this is a non-working number. Unfortunately, this wonderful device is no longer being made. If you can find a used one grab it!
PS I really have to laugh at all the people who invoke the DNC list. Since when did criminals start complying with laws?? The DNC list is honored only by LEGITIMATE companies doing LEGITIMATE business!
I realized this today when, after pressing the number to talk to a representative (apparently the connect number varies by locale) the phone rang and then switched and rang again and then was answered. I remembered that this happened before, but quickly enough that I didn't realize it until today.
Here is what is happening:
1) Call originates from a call-out number only through an exchange
2) Pressing 1, 9, 3 or whatever, gets you back to the exchange only
(this why you get strange messages when you try to call the number, there is no incoming connection to number, just the exchange)
3) exchange(A) forwards your request to another exchange (B)
4) exchange (B) calls, and connects you to, a call center, possibly in your area.
5) The people at the call center may not even know who called you, only that they are to pitch a specific product or service.
I put this possible scenario together after trying to get more info from them. During one call I was able to befuddle the young lady on the line long enough for her to blurt out a name of a company (and not creditcard services) and a local (509) number, unfortunately I was without pen and paper and was not really expecting her to be truthful and so have neither. Needless to say the call was quickly terminated from her end (supervisor overheard?).
The reason they would use this method is twofold:
1) You have no record of the call center's number (they're safe!) You may only have the number that called you and that probably is fictious or won't be used to call you the next time.
2) What is worse is that you actually initiated the call to the call center and, therefore, they are now possibly exempt from the DNC regulations for this call and for a year more. Now both the call center and creditcard services are safe!
This entire operation is as brilliant as it is annoying.
THIS IS HARRASSMENT.
Bet from NC
Would love to files a local suit, though would most likely not result in anything since identifying them is a challenge...
"live person". When someone answers I let loose with a long shrill blast from my whistle.
With any luck I will ruin someones day.
Give them one: http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-numbers/
Poison their data with fake names and numbers.
Make a list of numbers and keep it with your phone. When they call, give them the next number on the list (with made-up name, expiration date and CVV...they have no way to check these)
This is clearly not the case in many of our situations, as the human we are connected with is abusive or completely inappropriate. Hanging up, calling people names, THREATENING PEOPLE.... that is all beyond any remote sense of human decency I can feel. As far as I am concerned, everyone directly or indirectly involved in this scam is a knowing, willing participant and deserves whatever they get - which would preferably involved jail time but will likely be little more than stress and possible hearing loss.
It is apparent it is happening all the time some body do some thing please
Make them stop please