"Credit Card Services". Yeah, right. Like a bull "services" a cow.
This time it's "Heather". Well-spoken young lady, clear and distinct. Obviously trolling for seniors.
I pressed "1" for a person, got a gentleman with good English and a slight accent: refined, educated and exotic but with no discernible locality. Clear and patient.
This time I was able to hold him for a while, pretending to dig out a credit card from a carrier I don't use, giving a number I've been practicing for a while. (Decoded, it reads: "Financial fraud, (spend in jail) all day, all week and all year, twenty to hell-freezes-over"). He had some way of checking and confirming right away that it wasn't a valid number. I gave it again, with a couple of digits transposed and a few more times until he finally gave up.
A little fun, I suppose, but no progress on stopping these scum-buckets.
Since they're criminals anyway, they won't honor the "Do Not Call" list. Maybe getting a useless "Credit Card" number will make them stop calling me, but I'm not holding my breath.
If the NSA is so all-fired powerful, monitoring phone calls higgledy-piggledy, why can't they recognize a pattern "Heather from Credit Card Services" and at least block the perpetrators' access to U.S. phone services, if not completely fry their equipment and arrest them!
Yeesh! What are we paying our taxes for?
I got a call from 212-964-8091 at 1:31pm today (MDT) and the caller ID showed up as "BINDERY CONDOMI" which, according to our pal Google turns out to be Bindery Condominiums 324 Pearl St, New York, NY 10038 (212) 964-8090.
I'm pretty sure nobody in NY would be calling me and they didn't leave a message so either it's a wrong number or someone borrowed their name as a way to get people to pick up the phone and possibly fall for whatever scam they're peddling. Or maybe the scammer lives there and this is how they're paying the $450,000 to $870,000 price of those condos.