Is there no way to stop these scammers? Just since 7/12 they have called from three different numbers:
818-471-4969
800-288-2020
213-519-5751
Overall I have recorded their use of twelve different numbers since last October with multiple calls from each number. If this is not harassment I guess I don’t know what harassment means.
This is apparently a California company making calls within California ignoring both Cal PUC and Federal regulations.
Try to block them and it works for a while but they just switch their calling number and the calls continue.
After about 20 of these calls I had had enough. So I hit "1" and talked to a rep. I let them give their pitch which they said was 90 seconds but it seemed more like 3 min.
Then I kept asking who paid for the system (as the robo-call said it was already paid for). They can't really answer that of course and keep trying to explain the "promotion".
Then I said since it was paid for a transaction must have been made and asked if they could send me the money instead.
When an agent spends time with you they don't want to give up and keep trying to explain it which was rather humorous.
Finally I let them know that since they had wasted so much of my time I'd decided to waste a little of theirs and asked to be taken off the list. We'll see if that works. I feel sorry for the agent who has such a crappy employer but all I can do is get back at their system.
We have gotten at least twenty calls from Medical Alert in the last two months ... The tell us that we have a free medical alert device, postage included ... Recorded message and then they ask you to push on # 1 and when connected to that extension they request your credit card number I have requested them to not call me any more but the calls keep coming every evening.
My question is why can't our US Department of Justice catch these wicked, lying law violators. This group has got to be the worst out of the worst, and trying to reach them is an impossibility. I've received numerous multiply daily calls from these crooks. We need to put more pressure on our government because they are not doing enough to protect us from these blatant criminals who are seriously financially abusing many incompetent seniors. I was told months ago by Comcast to click *57 to uncover the real names of these criminals, but by the time you follow through with Comcast's decipherable directions you get nowhere in trying to report the abuse to "your local police departments." That *57 number is only another ruse to push us out of the way.
The phone companies don't want to be put in the position of being the "phone police". Simple reason, it would cost them money to provide the service in addition to losing phone revenue from the offenders. They have lobbied against every proposal to make them more accountable to their customers in this matter.
One can report the offenders to www.donotcall.gov but that is only a data base for investigators to look into. It does get referenced but there is not way for a citizen to force the issue there.
We could lobby the congress for tougher laws and lobby the executive branch for better enforcement but that's about it.