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We need CRIMINAL penalties against the companies that are profiting from these calls. Follow the money, slap them in jail, no one left to outsource to overseas boiler rooms, problem solved.
Since they are operating across borders it should become a federal felony and should be handled by the FBI under the RICO Act.
These calls are coming from call centers in Costa Rica and India and they are using spoofed (false)
numbers, which in itself is illegal. They do cold calling for or sell the leads to numerous companies in
this country and they know that what they are doing is illegal. Tomorrow this same number may be selling Cruises, Timeshares or Security Systems but if you follow the money it usually ends up in the hands of an American LLC. Keep complaining to the FTC and FCC, and start bugging our politicians to pass laws to make it punishable in criminal court instead of handing out fines that they don't pay. Another course of action is to contact phone companies to find out why they won't block spoofed numbers. With today's technology that should be an easy thing to do, unless they are somehow profiting from the use of their systems.
Robocalls are illegal unless you have given them prior permission in writing (not worded into some small
print contract from a 3rd party) and are absolutely illegal to a cell phone. The Telephone Consumer
Protection Act permits individuals who have received certain unlawful telemarketing, such as junk faxes
or telemarketing calls, to sue the violator in state courts where they may be awarded up to $1500 for
each violation.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/robocalls/
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/07/robocall.shtm
http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/TCPA-Rules.pdf
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/donotcall/mediacenter.html
People should continually file complaints with their Attorney Generals office and also file with:
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
If enough people keep complaining then maybe something will get done.
The FTC has already taken action against some of them however they just pay a small fine and are back at the same scam the next day:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/afl_financial.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/voiceblaze.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/12/roycox.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/03/voicetouch.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/robocalls.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/12/robocall.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/09/twi.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/02/robocall.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/robocalls2.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/12/jpm.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/06/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/donotcall/mediacenter.html
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/03/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/voicetouch.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/11/sonkei.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/05/ams.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/01/khalilian.shtm
I will say it again, we need CRIMINAL penalties against the companies that are profiting from these
calls. Follow the money, slap them in jail, no one left to outsource to overseas boiler rooms, problem
solved. Since they are operating across borders it should become a federal felony and should be handled by the FBI under the RICO Act.
First I never answer the call to begin with. I made that mistake and now I'm on their new phone list weekly. So after I reject the call, I just add them to my "blocked" callers on my phone whenever I get a call from an out of state number. If they really know who I am there are several other ways to get hold of me besides my cell number. Good luck!
Get a few calls from 305-202-1132 every few weeks or so. Now I no longer even answer. Spoke to a few people a time of two. They alwa's have a broken accent that's hard to identify. The 301 code is from Florida, and can be either a land line or a cell phone. One wanted to lower my credit card rate, another wanted to sell me on line meds. Personally, I think it's somebody running a business that can identify
and ID a caller for a fee. Very likely a company that shows up on this same page when google the phone number in question.
Apparently 'Rachel' with Card Member Services has added a new number. She used to call me from 801-647-0293, but now she's calling me from 305-202-1132. Same ol recorded message, same ol illegal scam. They're just trying to get a gullible person on the phone and get real credit card information so they can make that poor sap miserable. Don't fall for it. And yes, what they're doing is illegal, they are law breakers, so they don't care if we're on the Do Not Call list, and they won't take you off their call list. There's got to be a way to find out where these people are and make them regret what they're doing.
Yea, my old friend Rachel called me too on her NEW number. She calls me at least twice a week trying to scam me. Funny how she gets a new phone every week. Probably can't pay her phone bill. Maybe she needs financial counseling from one of her fellow scamming employees. If you ask any questions, they always hang up on you. I usually speak professionally & respectfully to them, but from now on, screw that. They'll get an ear full. Last week, I threatened a lawsuit. Guess that didn't work. Why did we bother signing up on the Do Not Call List?