May 26, 2012
The telemarketer claims to be the American Senior Benefit Program, offering to sell me a medical alert system. BTW, the real American Senior Benefits has a prominent note on its homepage stating that any telemarketer claiming to represent them is a fraud. Although the displayed number is an Idaho area code, nobody recognized the name of the governor of Idaho. It is possible that they may have learned it by now, so if you want to waste their time, choose a different name. They did ask me to repeat my credit card number, so it can be good to have a fake 16 digit "credit card number" and 3 digit "security number" ready in advance. (Which I do.) Remember that Visa starts with 4 and Mastercard starts with 5. When they told me that they are having a problem with the number, I decided I'd wasted enough time.