claim to be credit card company looking to lower your rates...when try to call back, it says the number is a non-working number. How is this possible????
Would I like my credit interest rates lowered? It's no secret what they are trying to do. We receive a call from these people at least twice a week. I've told them not to call here anymore, but they call back anyway. Where can we report them? Who has the power to put them out of business?
People - For starters, There is NO "000" PREFIX anywhere in the USA - ever! So if you see that, you know the number is spoofed (faked).
Sadly, with the advent (and ease) of products like "MagicJack" now *ANYONE* can have a "local" USA phone number to try to scam you out of your credit card info -
The PROBLEM is - the Government cannot "track" these VOIP phone calls and numbers - for as soon as they get a lock on them, all the CROOK simply has to do is unplug (probably from Nigeria or the likes) and simply move to a different IP - It's a terrible problem with new technology in the new millennium...
As they continue to call me about once a week after repeated request to be removed from their call list, I just reverse the problem.
After pressing '9' to "Talk to a representative about lowering my credit card rates." I advise them to "Go F_ _ _ yourself!" and I mute the microphone as they try to engage me in conversation. They usually talk to themselves for almost a minute before they hang up thinking I have disconnected. It waste their time, and often results in some humorous monolog.