You can't stop these kinds of illegal calls. Don't pick up. let it go to answering machine. If you have a caller I.D do not pick up, it only serves to inform them that yours is a working number. There is nothing you can do, this person who is bilking millions from these scams has been fined and baned from certin states, he is not going to stop, so please just don't answer.
You can't stop these kinds of illegal calls. Don't pick up. let it go to answering machine. If you have a caller I.D do not pick up, it only serves to inform them that yours is a working number. There is nothing you can do, this person who is bilking millions from these scams has been fined and baned from certin states, he is not going to stop, so please just don't answer.
Absolutely right. Do not answer calls from unfamiliar numbers. Picking up only confirms that yours is a working number. Pressing any number to 'be removed from their list' (which never works) or to 'speak to a representative' also confirms to these scammers that yours is a working number. JUST DON'T ANSWER. If the robocall leaves a voice mail, then you'll know it's a scam and you can add them to your phone's address book under SCAM or, if you have that capability, you can block the number. If no message is left, come to a forum like this, plug in the number, and you can see if it's a scam or not.
Last, but not least, REPORT ALL THESE SCAM CALLS to www.donotcall.gov.
I haven't yet compiled a list of numbers like wierdo, but I think these are actually medical debt collectors. I started getting robocalls from Rachel and Kelly as well as about some kind of stimulus program after I complained to the FTC about finally getting from a human who told me they didn't have to comply with the FDCPA so long as they didn't give their name and only said they were the medical provider. Turns out the robocalls also violate the CanSpam Act, but the FTC delegated enforcement responsibility to HHS's Office of Civil Rights, which justifies nonenforcement because it's been zero budgeted. BTW, I didn't pay a medical bill supported by altered electronic medical records, which is against the Hi-Tech Act. The medical entity's been sanctioned by DC courts for records alteration, but it apparently still does it as part of its self-insurance strategy. Ditto with my insurer, which diagnosed me with a condition shortly after I signed on (so it becomes a preexisting condition and limits switching) and then only offers treatment with known ineffective drugs and only puts providers such as record-alterer on its approved list if they also lack expertise. When I complained, they bragged about their clout with "all regulators" and that they "always win" because the "just pay off the lawyers", suggested I get other insurance or pay out of pocket, fired all 3 in the office which allowed me to see my records (both entities insist that only prepaid paper records are legal and stressed the employees behaved unethically because their primary duty is to the shareholders even if electronic records access is the law), and raised my rates three times within one year. Sure enough, HHS OCR, MD and VA all whiffed. Like the FTC on these robocalls. Just before the election they posted that they were shutting down the Card Services calls from Heather and Kelly (just google) Methinks the robocallers found political business more lucrative for a while, for the robocalls resumed afterward, and now they just seem to eliminate the supposed woman introducing herself at the front.