Pr-recorded message; Ann from Account Services, 'press 1 for additional important messages', I did and was told I was 12th in line waiting, when I got to 3rd I hung up.
It is another credit card interest rate scam.
Everyday these idiots call me, I have report and put on do not call list!! So so sick of this crap, is there nothing a person can do to protec5t our phone numbers!!! Day after day!! Going to get me a blow horn and blast their ears!
You may as well systematically jack with these [***]. Maybe consider it your patriotic duty to keep them on the line as long as possible so as to run interference for your fellow Americans and lessen the number of gullible folks who get scammed.
Rachel of Credit Card Services is the FTC's enemy number one; wow! 200,000 fricken complaints each month. Imagine how much those cost to process. They have scammed your fellow Americans out of $30 million dollars. We can send a man to the moon, but we can't burn Rachel at the stake?! Gimme a break!
So here's my drill for these CCS turkeys who typically call three times a week. (Even going silent, never answering calls from numbers I don't recognize FOR FOUR MONTHS, didn't work.) So now I:
1. Play along, acting like an interested prospect giving them fictitious data, including a combination of two different credit card numbers
2. I am oh-so patient, even dutiful, as I respectfully repeat myself and make a point of speaking slowly and clearly since these telemarketers aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.
3. Then, upon request, I give them my credit card company's real telephone number so that they can waste their time calling while I hold. Inevitably they come back on the line and want to review the info I've given them.
4. Then I let 'em have it (and this is the FUN part). When they say that my info didn't work, I respond, "Well maybe that's because H-O-O-O-O-O-N-N-N-K-K-K-K [from my air horn; and I've nearly exhausted three of those bad boys] you've been pranked! So please call back tomorrow if you want more [***]. Eat [***] and die, you predatory human garbage!"
It is SO FUN to switch to my crazy-assed Mr. Hyde after so convincingly portraying Dr. Jekyll. Incidentally, if you get really lucky you might even persuade them to give you a REAL number at which to call them back. Then please post it here so that the rest of us harassees can call them ad naseum.