About lowering your interest rate on credit card Called 3:10pm on May 5th with name "Out of Area", went to my voice mail. Voice mail started in the middle of a sentence from a womans voice. This "company" with the same BS voicemail has called before but under a different number. Scum of the earth annoyances!
This call came in with the Caller ID MasterCardRewar. When they asked for my card number, I knew it was a scam. If they were legit they would have had that information.
I have received this phone call previously. I called back and started asking questions as to who they were and they hung up on me. I have started receiving the phone calls again. I am on the State and Federal "DO NOT CALL LIST". I am going to contact them again. It's a $2000 fine for each call. If this does not stop it, I will call the news media to see if they can help.
I am beginning to love these calls. I have developed a few ways to mess with their heads (assuming you have a few minutes).
1. Get the operator on the line.
2. Begin giving out as much phony information as possible. Make the operator spend as much time as possible with you (REPEAT: give out PHONY information). I especially enjoy giving out street names and towns with very stange or salacious names that will make the operator feel awkward. I like to use Toe Suck, Nebraska :-)
3. Ask TONS of questions. Some personal like where they are, how is the weather. Nothing too accusatory, not at first.
4. Make the operator feel as awkward as possible. I've pretended to have certain medical conditions, I once told them I was an emancipated slave from Senegal.
5. Finally, drop the hammer, tell them you know it is fake, and since you've been on the phone long enough, you've traced the number and you're sending a recording of the call to the FBI (in most states...it IS legal to tap a phone call, as long as at least one of the parties knows this.)
YES, I CERTAINLY DO LOVE TO HUNT! JUST GIVE ME SOME NUT CASE RUNNING AROUND BOTHERING PEOPLE LIKE THAT, AND THAT IS JUST ANOTHER CHALLENGE FOR ME. HECK, LIKE OLE CHUCKIE SAID, I"D CHASE THEM TO THE GATES OF HELL.." JUST TO GET ONE..JUST THE TRUTH, DIDN'T MEAN TO SCARE ANYONE --AND MINE WAS THE SAME AS HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT BEFORE..THEY CALL ABOUT LOWERING MY CREDIT CARD CHARGES FOR ME...WELL, DANG, HOW ABOUT THAT!!--I USE ONLY 1 CREDIT CARD AND IT IS PAID IN FULL EVERY MONTH SO I NEVER HAVE TO PAY ANY CHARGES, ANYWAY.
My husband answered the phone, and when the caller started with that "we can lower your credit card interest rate" spiel, he was informed that we were on the Do Not Call registry and the caller was breaking the law. His response was that we were not on that list, because if we were, he wouldn't be calling. My husband repeated that we were indeed on the list. At that point the caller became abusive and used foul language to curse my husband, who said mildly, "You have an attitude, Jack." Then we hung up and I used our call history to get the number so I could do a reverse lookup to determine where the call originated. We will be using that information to register a report online. I think we all need to keep reporting every call that violates the rules. It takes time for the authorities to build a case against these bottom-feeders and the more reports and evidence we provide, the more likely it is that they will be stopped.