Called me again today 7-18-2011. 1-407-936-9999. These @sshats just don't quit. I kept the guy on the phone just a bit until I was about to lose him because he actually got aggrevated because I didn't have my CC statements in front of me to give him specifics on interest rates per balances on the multiple cards I told him I had. I only have a couple and they have no running balances. I just wanted to keep him on the phone. He actually said less than a minute into the call that he gets paid by the hour and that he needs accurate info immediately. He used the word "dude". I finally let him have it with choice words mixed in with fraud, scammer, and low life pieces of ****!!!! The phone then went dead. I had one of these guys last year during the tirade part of my call, call me by my name and say he knew where I lived. I invited him over if he had a pair if he didn't like the words. He hung up. I wish these jack@sses would put my number on a list to pass out to all their scammer pals that my house is wise to them and to quit wasting my time and THEIR OWN and move on to look for some poor sap that believes their attempt at theft.
This # keeps calling here and I see no reason for it. If I don't answer, no message is left on the answering machine. If I do (accidently) pick up, there is a recorded message by a very fast talking lady. Very annoying plus invasion of my privacy.
Got a call... pressed 1. after I went into a tirade I was hung up on. When I called back I get the Permit dept of some city. I doubt very much if this calls are actually coming from this number... but how do they manage to get that number to appear as the number they are calling from??
The 407-936-9999 was caller id'ed as Robert Kennedy. He/they left no message. Then a few minutes later a call cam from 407-660-9999, the id was an "Out of Area" call. Again, no message. Very likely these 2 numbers are from the same source. Why answer a call from someone you don't know, just a waste of time. That's what message machines and voice mail are for. It is apparent that these 2 calls are a continuation of more of the same SCAM.
Report this fraud to the Florida Attorney General or your state Attorney General - action will be taken; a similar fraud was shut down recently. Posting complaints here isn't going to do anything about it - the reports must be made to the relevant authorities.
U.S. district court, acting at the request of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has approved a settlement shutting down two groups of Florida-based telemarketers that allegedly flooded consumers with misleading recorded robocalls falsely promising to reduce their credit card interest rates.
The settlement permanently bans the two related operations from making robocalls and selling debt relief services. The orders are the latest in a series of enforcement actions the FTC has taken to rein in robocallers -- especially those who try to take advantage of consumers affected by the economic downturn.
Scammers at work
According to the FTC, JPM Accelerated Services and related defendants made thousands of illegal recorded robocalls to consumers, identifying themselves only as "card services" and offering lower credit card interest rates.
Consumers who pressed "1" after hearing the automated pitch were transferred to live telemarketers who falsely told consumers that JPM's services would allow them to lower their credit card interest rates dramatically.
The telemarketers charged an up-front fee typically ranging from $495 to $995, according to the complaint, and promised consumers they would save thousands of dollars in a short period of time as a result of the lower interest rates, and that they would be able to pay off their debts faster. The defendants also falsely stated that if consumers did not save thousands of dollars from lowered interest rates, they would receive a full refund of the up-front fee.
After collecting the fee from consumers, however, JPM allegedly failed to deliver the promised interest rate reductions and savings, and routinely refused to honor its money-back guarantee. The FTC complaint also charged the defendants with violating the Telemarketing Sales Rule by calling consumers on the Do Not Call Registry, blocking or "spoofing" caller ID and making unlawful robocalls.
Restitution ordered
The settlement orders also impose judgments of $5.9 million against defendants associated with JPM, and $3.2 million against six individual defendants associated with an affiliated operation called IXE Accelerated Financial Centers, LLC. The judgments, representing the amount of money consumers lost through these robocall schemes, are suspended, based on the defendants' inability to pay< But, they will become due if the defendants are found to have misrepresented their financial condition.
Two of the defendants in the IXE operation, Ivan X. Estrella and Jaime Hawley, also are liable for an unsatisfied $75,000 judgment recently entered against them in a case brought by the Florida Attorney General.
The orders were filed in the U.S. District Court for Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division on November 9, 2010, against: 1) Ivan X. Estrella, Jamie M. Hawley, and Kimberly Nelson; and 2) Jeanie B. Robertson, Brooke Robertson, Alexander J. Dent, Micha S. Romano, Paul Pietrzak, and Ashley M. Westbrook. Estrella, Hawley, and Nelson worked with the IXE corporate defendants listed below.
The rest of the individual defendants worked with the JPM corporate defendants. At the FTC's request, the court also has dismissed the charges against Paige Dent.
Corporate defendants
The court is reviewing the FTC's request for a default judgment against the corporate defendants in this case, including the IXE corporate defendants (IXE Accelerated Financial Centers, LLC; and IXE Accelerated Services Inc.), and the JPM corporate defendants (JPM Accelerated Services Inc.; IXE Accelerated Service Centers Inc.; MGA Accelerated Services Inc.; World Class Savings Inc.; Accelerated Savings Inc.; and B&C Financial Group Inc.). The proposed default judgment includes monetary judgments of $3.2 million against the IXE corporations, based in Orlando, Florida, and $5.9 million against the JPM corporations, based in Melbourne, Florida.
International Cooperation
The FTC brought this action with assistance from other law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Canada, including: the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; the Attorney General of Florida; the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs; the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission; and the Toronto Strategic Partnership, which includes as member agencies the Competition Bureau Canada; the Toronto Police Service Fraud Squad - Mass Marketing Section; the Ontario Provincial Police Anti-Rackets Section; the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and the United Kingdom's Office of Fair Trading. Assistance also was provided by the Better Business Bureau of Central Florida.
they have been calling at least twice a week for the last 3 months, including the last three days in a row.i punched 3 on the phone at least 6 times to opt out of these calls to no avail. i waited to talk to an agent 3 times, when i tell them to quit calling they hang right up. this is annoying and needs to be stopped.