I got calls from both Carmen and Rachel from cardholder services for months! Waiting to speak to a person and telling them I don't have credit cards and nicely asking them to stop calling (several times) didn't work to stop the calls. I then called back from my home phone I was receiving the calls at. After the prompt, I pressed 1 to be added to the do not call request. After 48 business hours processing time, the calls stopped.
I agree totally - if enough folks punk 'em by giving bogus info and wasting their time, eventually they will get over-sensitive and start hanging up on actual suckers, making their business model totally nonviable. With these credit card guys, I like to talk very slowly in my 'old-man' voice and give them a totally bogus CC#. I have it written down so I can repeat if asked. This number has several '3's' and '8's', and I tend to get them mixed up when the first read-through comes back invalid. My record stringing them along is about 10 minutes, but the real artistry is sensing when they are getting impatient and are ready to hang up - I try to get in the '1-800' number on the back of my card. Mine, for some reason, reads "1-800-Do-Not-Call Registry"...Woo-hoo, great fun!
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