I was home for this call because of the snow here in North Carolina. It was a recorded message about how there is nothing wrong with my credit cards but they can get me lower interest rates. But it was odd and I think there was something wrong with the machine on their end because the message was playing at a fast speed. I pushed 1 to talk to a representative. Lisa came on the line. And said some stuff too fast for me to hear but I did hear that she said she was with “Card Services.” I have gotten enough calls like these with the exact same company name to know that if you start asking too many questions, they will hang up on you; a sure sign of a scam in my book, so I lied when she asked if I had more than $40k in debt and said I think about $60K on about 5 cards ( I actually do not have any credit card debt. Keep in mind that my objective is simply to; 1. keep them on the line as long as possible, and 2. potentially gain information from them so as to reduce their effectiveness. Item 1 will save a few other people from getting calls.)
We discussed a few things and she then wanted the 1-800 number from the back of the card which kind of threw me off, I had not heard that before and I since was expecting a guest at anytime I gave up the charade and said “Lisa, you should know that I lie a lot”. After a pause she said so you mean you don’t have that debt. And I said yes. She said I wish you had told me sooner. You wasted my time.” I said “what about all the peoples time you waste and annoyed by working for a company that calls thousands of people?” She became agitated and said did you enjoy wasting my time? And I said no I did not but that is the only way I can get any information from you people since you hang up on me as soon as I ask questions like you are about to do right now. She said that she hoped the new year would bring me lots of bulls__t because that is what you are is bulls__t. I said as gently as I could “No Lisa, your job is the bulls__t.” But I’m not sure she heard that since she had hung up on me.
I was able to keep her tied up for a little over 5 minutes but I was not too successful at getting any information other than she said she was in a call center in Texas. I think it is possible that she actually believes she is helping people with credit problems. She is just a cog in a bigger machine.
My caller id showed their name as CALLNOTES.
Note that she said she was in Texas but the caller ID showed and area code in Kansas
I am on the Do Not Call list. This was a solicitation call in violation of that. They have called me twice. Any lawyer that wants to sue these [***]? I would be glad to help.
1 (785) 270-1653 CALLNOTES, Lower your Interest Rates, Computer. This is why I have VOIP, I set up When they call again, it says "Disconnected" Power to the people! (I use VIATALK VOIP)