On July 26, 2012, I got a call from this number. It registered on my caller ID as "Financial Ctr." I did not answer the phone. On today's date, August 15, 2012, I received another call from "Financial Ctr." except this time the number was 503-457-1407. I answered this call. The recording said that this is my final courtesy call to lower my credit card rate to 6%; all I need is $3,000 in credit card debt and one card in good standing. It also said they have tried to contact me several times and that this is my final call for my yearly credit card review.
The automated recording did not give a key to press to be removed from their list; It said "Press 1 if you are interested in lowering your credit card debt..." So I pressed 1 and got a woman who said "So i understand you are interested in lowering your credit card payments?" I said, "No, but I understand I want to be removed from your call list." Before I could finish my sentence, she hung up on me!
If you get a call from "Financial Ctr" on your caller ID, DO NOT ANSWER!
I have done this several times already and every time they hang up on me. How am I to get off this list!???
I waited through the pre-recorded message to talk to a real person. Asked them to put me on their do not call list. The caller SLAMMED down the phone. Reported to Do Not Call.
I'm on the Do Not call list and this company keeps calling me, never leaves a message. I'm tempted to answer the call, record the conversation and submit to the DNC complaint dept.
Same credit card scam. Left voice message advertising a lower credit card rate and then you give them your credit card number and they have you. They have lots of different numbers and they lie when they say that this is the last call that you will receive.
"you are a telemarketer, and I don't do business with any company that uses telemarketing as a form of advertising" (stolen from a comment on this web site -- I love it). And do not answer name unavailable ever as calls are now starting to say that often.
Robo Sarah calls my cell number and my voip phone. She offers a free cruise for a 30 second survey about the bad state of politics in this election year. Other people have said that it is a ploy to sell you a cruise.
I have a lot more than 20 numbers from these people. But to keep it simple, these are the area codes that they are using (not all of them are in Oregon:
202 206 253 and brand new area code: 425
360 503 724
727 971
And each area code had several numbers from several calls. Each area code has 9,999,999 numbers fyi (7 digits). I am going to copy and paste and post this info for each number that calls me for this web site.
Nothing is going to stop these scammers and lazy collection agency who call everyone with the same name instead of looking up the right one and all we can do is block them or use call forward selective.. DNC does not work when they are robo dialing all possible random numbers. The authorities can not or will not help either.
So, just block them, don't answer unknown calls, and continue using this great site for information to be in control of your own home and cell phone calls. If it turns out that you did not answer a call from someone you know (number not on this site), just call them back. No problem. Its alot of work that I do (checking the number on this web site, blocking the caller, and making my own excel spreadsheet of numbers) but at least I FEEL like I have a little control of the situation. Maybe I'm delusional.
Its our life and we need to take it back.
One person said to call forward selective to the FCC whose number is 1-717-338-2533