Lots of calls from this number today. Last week I got a call from a guy from this company. I actually was nice to him and spoke to him for a couple of minutes. He said he was calling from Canada. The number is California based. Car fire is too kind. They are a financial connected service called SecureRights. If you have applied for a loan or any other sort of financial service on line with the SecureRights logo on the page. How deceptive! Secure my fanny! The disclosure on the securerights.org site says once you have entered your info to say Quicken Loans one of their premier members or one of the 150 other companies that use them, they then have the right to collect whatever information you put in and sell your name and e-mail address to anyone who sells financial products, loans or mortgages or whatever. What the original guy on the phone was trying to do is to you me to agree to let him give my number to 4 mortgage people in my area. They get a fee for this referral and for selling your information . Then the local sharks have permission to call you. Now that they have this number they are now calling it to ask for Wendy Peterson. It's not my name. Who is Wendy Peterson? How do we get our name and number out of this fraud?
got a call from this number (323) 443-0260 and asked to speak with my wife and when I said who it was they just hung up. When I call back it rings about 5 times and hangs up. This must be some kind of social engineering or phishing.
Got a call from this number at 8:25am, caller ID "Los Angeles". Upon answering I requested that we be removed from the list. The arrogant flea on the other end said, "No," and hung up. Phoning back, there was no answer just ringtone followed by disconnect at three minutes. Within the next hour I received three more telemarketing calls from three different area codes/numbers and I suspect these are related to this call.
We have been harrassed by telemarketers for months now, ever since we moved into this area code and unfortunately inherited this number. We have an unlisted number and are on the Do No Call list, and I repeatedly request to be removed from the list, and I also repeatedly file complaints with the FCC/DNC complaint center. Since the problem isn't going away, I have found some other solutions. I have discovered the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA). People, it pays to be diligent, keep logs of all the calls and your requests to be removed. Then initiate a phone trace and find out who has actually been calling... in my experience calls from various area codes lead to the same call center because the dialers use pseudo-numbers. Once you know who has been harrassing, you can sue (within the four-year statute of limitations) and they are liable for damages of $500-$1500 PER PHONE CALL. This applies to debt collectors also. Hit them in the wallet, that is apparently the only way to win this battle. Call your phone service provider to find out how to initiate call trace. Here is more info on the TCPA:
Yet another phone call at 10:17am, this time when I said, "Hello," they just hung up. I tried phoning back twice, the phone just rings and disconnects after three minutes. It is a strange ring sound, periodically it drops out or sounds muffled at random intervals. I remember it distinctly from trying to call back the other day. I traced the call, and added it to my log of phone calls, and filed a DNC complaint. My log records of harrassment keep growing in number and detail, and with each phone call the law provides for damages of $500-$1500. If these jerks would bother to ask they would find out we are not the people who previously held this number. But that's okay, I will keep logging until the day I file suit under the TCPA (see my previous post). What their intellect can't comprehend their wallet will have to pay.