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Dec 23, 2013
Here is a suggestion that I did, with a warning:
If you press 1 they forward the call to a call center BUT they claim YOU called THEM, which is true since you pressed 1. They will then claim they have absolutely no idea what marketing company called you first and referred the call "since we get calls forwarded by so many". Of course they are doing it themselves, but newsflash, people lie. Also, if it was an outside company they would have to know so they would be able to pay that company for the referral.
All that said, I believe that having pressed "1" for one call puts you on the express hassle list so you'll get more of them.
I played along and make it sound like they hit a grand slam, telling them I had all kinds of cc debt. Then I told them I was at work and my boss just walked in and I needed their number so I could call them back. Once I got that I looked up who they were and filed a complaint with the FCC that bore some weight. When I called them back I told them not to bother hanging up because I had their number, and they did stay on and got me a supervisor. He referred me to the "owner" who did not call me back and that is when I filed the complaint.
BTW, they make money even if you don't answer because the "lookup" system for caller ID bills your local phone company for that local phone company accessing the databank so that it can display their number to you. The scammers have teamed up with a small telephone company out west so that telephone company will collect millions which they split with the scammers. One CC scammer can make 10 million calls a day, so even at a fraction of a cent per call they are making some serious jack. So they make money by scamming other phone companies, not just you. Now you know why they call so much.
If you press 1 they forward the call to a call center BUT they claim YOU called THEM, which is true since you pressed 1. They will then claim they have absolutely no idea what marketing company called you first and referred the call "since we get calls forwarded by so many". Of course they are doing it themselves, but newsflash, people lie. Also, if it was an outside company they would have to know so they would be able to pay that company for the referral.
All that said, I believe that having pressed "1" for one call puts you on the express hassle list so you'll get more of them.
I played along and make it sound like they hit a grand slam, telling them I had all kinds of cc debt. Then I told them I was at work and my boss just walked in and I needed their number so I could call them back. Once I got that I looked up who they were and filed a complaint with the FCC that bore some weight. When I called them back I told them not to bother hanging up because I had their number, and they did stay on and got me a supervisor. He referred me to the "owner" who did not call me back and that is when I filed the complaint.
BTW, they make money even if you don't answer because the "lookup" system for caller ID bills your local phone company for that local phone company accessing the databank so that it can display their number to you. The scammers have teamed up with a small telephone company out west so that telephone company will collect millions which they split with the scammers. One CC scammer can make 10 million calls a day, so even at a fraction of a cent per call they are making some serious jack. So they make money by scamming other phone companies, not just you. Now you know why they call so much.