I received a call on my cell phone from number: 214-496-2580. They asked if I was "responding to the lower your credit card interest call" -- I instead asked how they got my number. They hung up immediately.
I get this call every few days. It's taken me quite a while to get any information out of them like a company name, Card Services. Usually when you ask questions they hang up. I finally got them to give me their phone number and it was a phone sex line. They won't quit calling.
I looked it up and found it was a phishing scam.
So I've got a new tactic. An air horn sitting next to the phone. Now when they call at least I get the satisfaction of giving someone an ear piercing blast.
I googled "credit card services recorded message" and got this board. I've been getting these kinds of calls, although I don't have caller ID, so I don't know who/where they are from. If you wait long enough, they tell you to press "2" to be taken off the list. I've done that twice now, but they keep calling. I pressed "1" to get a customer service person and complained to her. She hung up on me.
I read through the comments and messages and it sounds just like my situation. I received a call today in which a prerecorded womens voice asks if I want to lower my credit card interest rate to 6.99%, press 9 for immediate assistance. I pressed 9 and was transferred to a live agent, a women, who asked "Were you interested in lowering your credit card interest rates?" I replied, "Yes". She then asks me for my name. I then asked her for her companies name, and she proceeded to hang up. These people are the scum of the earth. I wished the New York State attorney general would investigate and prosecute these people to the fullest extent of the law. They like to prey on innocent victims, like the uninformed and elderly. My tele number is on the do not call list specifically to avoid getting these annoying calls. I have caller ID and the telephone number came up as "PRIVATE", which means these people are ruthless low-life criminals.
Got a automated female voice inferring that there was some kind of problem with an unspecified credit card account and to disreguard the message if the account was paid. Then the auto-woman voice gave a pitch for lower credit card rates, press nine for more information. I pressed nine and got a real person.
I asked,"What company?"
"Card Services."
"What card services?"
"Card Services IS the Company"
"I am on the do not call list. You are not to call me."
"Give me your number so I can take your number off our list."
"You called ME! You take the number off!" "Why are you being such a [***]?"
"I am on the do not call list. Do not call or I will report you"
I have received the same type of automated call numerous times from a "card services". Normally I hang up. Today I pressed "1' to speak to an operator. I first asked who the company was, and was given an indirect answer "we help people get lower interest rates, do you have any credit cards?", to which I asked if they were familiar with the Do Not Call Registry" to which the 'gentleman' rudely told me "Hey Lady don't press '1' again and get off my "fuc..." line - click. The calling number is masked, as well.