Just received a call from this number - didn't answer- no message.
Couldn't we use a "Selective Call Forwarding " service to dump pesky numbers into the same pit?
They'd have to run through a ton of phone numbers or go out of business.
This is a scam operation calling itself "Debt-Free Lifestyle Today."
The caller ID says "SERVICE MSG" (it says something similar when they call from one of their other numbers, like 406-224-9208). A recording from "cardholder services" threatens that this will be the final notice (if only!); sometimes it's a man, other times a woman, always with a different name.
Press 1 to speak with a person.
(If you get disconnected, you can call these losers back at 310-568-6007 or 877-282-3707.)
No matter how many times you deal with them, you'll probably speak with somebody different, always an American-sounding name but a foreign-sounding accent. I've talked with Janie, Roger, Vivian, Jason, Henry, Ivan, among others. If you push hard enough, you'll discover that the supervisors have last names - like Phillip Reed, Dexter Young, and Nathan Howard. (Mr. Howard claims to be the top man; he has no boss, he says.) It's kind of fun getting through to the actual managers, since most are fictional (like "Mrs. Promin") and spend their entire days in a meeting and can never come to the phone!
The first-line guys think the "company" is based in Boca Raton, FL, but the managers claim it's in Inglewood, CA. One thing is for sure: NOBODY will give you an actual mailing address.
I've gotten this far in the game. How can I sue them without their address? Help!
I have an active complaint on file with the MN AG, who is taking every number these monsters use to call me on (EVERY DAY) and working on going after them. I have also gone to www.donotcall.com and filed repeated complaints, tracked them back to their number and selected "1" to "be removed from their calling list," and even talked to numerous employees who assure me that they will remove me (LIARS ALL!)
I am working on some consurmer resolution, given the apparent reluctance by bureaucraps to go after them and Qwest wanting to charge me (in what I feel to be extortion, given that I pay for a nonpub number) to block them from calling me.
There MUST be something one of us can come up with in the face of what seems to be general ineptitude of authorities to protect us from these filthy scum-buckets. Isn't there some kind of "call zapper" out there? Maybe some "Con" to feed back to them (I dream of getting my bank to give me a nonworking debit card to give them the number for and then have them refuse payment without a physical address - - then get the authorities to move in on them and arrest them all for "terroristic activities.") I am fed up and at my wits end. This all started JUST TWO DAYS into a new move with new numbers (They call me ON BOTH NEW NUMBERS) and seem to know who I am, so I think the phone company needs to investigate their employees. This is just too much of a coincidence.
If anyone has any ideas that are legal, safe and effective to give them a bit of their own medicine or render them dysfunctional, I would be interested in knowing them. I thought about a whistle, but worry about hurting some young kid they conned into working for them. I wish I had some way to electronically disturb their phones and render them dysfunctional, but am not savvy enough for that. Would a whistle blown at the recording disrupt them?
Personally, I think DHS SHOULD get involved as, to my mind, this is terroristic. My phone is being used as a weapon against me and I am being attacked in my own home by what feels to be terrorists trying to force some con onto me. This has been going on for A MONTH STRAIGHT NOW! I am going to have to start shutting down my phones to get some peace.
I have been receiving calls from this number for the past couple weeks. They identify themselves as "Card Service" - I have a credit card with that name - so the other day I contacted them about call me about decreasing increase rate. I was informed no one had called me from their company. I would like to know who I need to contact to stop these calls.
Call received 07/07/2010 at 1:40pm
Recorded announcement said they have tried "numerous times" to reach me (They have NOT done that, thank goodness) and this was my last chance to take advantage of new low interest rates on my credit cards.
On callback, I selected option (2) to be removed from their calling list.
Let's hope!
Just received a call from this number - didn't answer- no message.
Couldn't we use a "Selective Call Forwarding " service to dump pesky numbers into the same pit?
They'd have to run through a ton of phone numbers or go out of business.