Received a call from Teresa at "Account Services." She wanted to "reduce the rate" of my credit cards. She asked if I owed at least $2,000 on any credit card with over a 10% interest rate. I asked her what company she represents. She said M/C and Visa. I asked her through which banks? She told me they represent all 551 banks! (what????)
I asked for their website. She explained that she was in the call center and they only have outgoing phone calls and they did not have a website. She just acts to "qualify" a person for credit reduction and suddenly the amount increased to $3,000 credit card balance to qualify for reduction assistance. She needed to prove that I had six months of good credit history to QUALIFY. I asked her how do I do this?
I asked her FLAT OUT if she expected me to give her my credit cards. She said she needed the phone number on the back of my credit card. I asked her how she thought she would get my account information since it is personal and confidential. She THEN told me she needed my credit card number! I said "what?" She went on to say that I am covered under the "Consumer Protection Act" against fraud and theft.
I told her no. I am not giving out my credit card information and asked her if SHE WERE crazy. Gone. She had hung up.
Oh, yes. She claimed to be in San Francisco, CA and she stumbled over that as she spoke. The White Pages reverse directory just shows this number being a land line in De Leon Springs, FL and it is a South Central Bell telephone number. I am calling them and the De Leon Springs, FL police fraud department. I suggest you all do the same.
Crooks. Let's get em people. You do know that these crooks are able to circumvent the caller ID and throw up any number they choose right? Someone please explain to me how crooks are outsmarting intelligent law enforcement? I am so aggravated I could spit nails. I fear for the elderly and the young and honest people who would be fooled and have their credit ruined and folks this does happen to others. PLEASE do your research on these numbers and take the time to call the Fraud Department of the Police Department when you track down the location of the number that appears on your caller ID.
Same here... call from 386-985-5500, press 1 to save on your CC, 2 to be removed. 2 does nothing, 1...might get you a person...might get you dead air. If you get to a person, if you [***] about being removed you're hung up on. I'm going to try and play along next time and see how long I can keep them on the phone.
Decided to ignore call, if it's important they'll leave a message.
No message left of course.
Glad I googled the phone number to find out about these scam artists.
These [***] call me constantly and leave the same message as everyone else gets and if you do pick up it is the same thing...press 1 for person and 2 to be removed. 2 does not work (obviously) and 1 gets you some [***] that will hang up when you tell them not to call anymore. I will hunt these b_ll-less [***] down and I will stick their phones up their *ssess!!!!!!!! Reporting them here has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!! We need the government to do want they are supposed to do and have promised!!!!!!! They are just useless straphangers with cushy jobs. From now on I am going to give these pr*cks my senators phone numbers (yes, their home numbers as well as their office) and see how they like it.