Got another call from these criminals about 15 mins ago. Why doesn't the government (state/national) come down on these companies that violate the do-not-call list? And I constantly get calls from investment brokers who tell me they can take me off their list (of course, that's NOT how the "do-not-call" lists work!!). Meanwhile, the only thing you know about their companies are that TO BEGIN WITH they're breaking the law by calling you. Not exactly a good basis for forming an investment relationship with them. Apparently Dun & Bradstreet sells these "lead" phone numbers.
They called a number of times over the years, with different phone numbers. never press any number on your keypad unless you know for sure who you are dealing with. now when these jerks calls I just leavr the phone off the hook, when they are done I hang up, they are paying for the call and I hope it's expensive. this is another fraud to stay away from.
As reported in the Oct- Nov AARP Bulletin the "people"(creatures) employed as telemarketers by the "card services" scammers are mainly drug addicts trying to make some money, to feed their habit,by ripping people off. I can picture them sitting in their rows of phone banks,shaking uncontrollably and sweating profusely as they make their scam calls.
So, like many of you, I've received calls from this number.
As inventive as some of these suggestions are (I love the airhorn!), I decided to go another route. After completing a backtrace of the phone number, I discovered which phone carrier they were using. I obtained the details of the carrier and gave them a polite call.
The guy who answered informed me that they took a very dim view of people who abused their service. I gave him the number that had repeatedly called me and I also informed him that I had reported the number to DNC and the FTC complaints.
He told me that the number would be passed on immediately to their engineers to investigate and potentially block the service.
Am I naive enough to believe that this will resolve all the calls I've been getting? No.
Do I believe that I may have at least thrown a virtual flaming bag of dogcrap at Card Services? Yes!
For those of you who want to give it a shot, here are the details of the phone company leasing their lines to Card Services:
LUCRE Inc.
(616) 361-0128
4011 Plainfield Avenue, N.W.,
Grand Rapids,
MI 49525
http://www.lucre.net
I keep getting calls from 616-613-2126. Both my home and cell phone numbers are on the Do Not Call list. I have not answered the calls, but continue to get calls