Didn't answer, when machine picked up it was a recording talking about for-profit universities screwing over students with non-transferable credits. Machine cut message off before it said who it was or why they were calling... Assuming it's trying to get you to enroll in online classes or something.
Didn't answer, when machine picked up it was a recording talking about for-profit universities screwing over students with non-transferable credits. Machine cut message off before it said who it was or why they were calling... Assuming it's trying to get you to enroll in online classes or something.
Student loan forgiveness robo-call; most likely attempting to reach a former student of a for-profit school. Not scammers or "cockroaches", just super irritating to get 3 calls from them on a daily basis. Listened to the message this time and at the end it instructs you to "press 9 to be placed on our do not call list". We will see if that works.
There is no "student loan forgiveness", at least not the way they want you to do it, which is to pay them money for something any college graduate should be able to do for free. They also just simply spam call numbers. The one thing that won't work is pushing a number to get them to stop calling. It will result in a lot more calls now that they know they have a live one on the other end who will do anything they ask just to get rid of them.
Out of interest, I picked up one of the calls today and spoke to an agent. Apparently, for some students who attended for-profit colleges (I went to a private art school for a 2nd degree), there are open complaints against the schools and they will fill out the paperwork to apply for loan forgiveness under these complaints. I didn't qualify, but there was never a discussion of paying them. This piqued my interest,, so I asked very candidly how they stay in business. It seems the attorneys who are litigating against the schools pay for each student they successfully get into the program. They also offered to fill out forbearance and deferral forms for me for my Federal student loans. I found this kind of silly, because you can access these forms online very easily.
Mostly, the agents don't seem to be very knowledgeable or well-trained. I work in finance (currently in credit card collections actually) and from my experience I wouldn't qualify this as a scam. But it does seem shady that they are being paid by the attorneys...