301-882-9986

We also received a call from that number and let the answering machine pick it up.. They did not leave a message and after getting on here to check the number out I tried to block the number and I get a recording saying that the number can not be blocked.. What the heck is going on that you can't even block the freaking call..  I  have an elderly mother whom they could easily drag into these scams..  We also are on the DO NOT CALL registry..

Got a call from 301-882-9986. I never answer numbers I don't know. I just let my answering machine do the work. Naturally, this number did not leave a message. I always check this site to see if a number is a problem number. I am definitely going to take one poster's suggestion and file a complaint at the website the poster provided.  I too am on the Do Not Call List.

Picked up the phone; no one there.  I had to do the *69 at a cost of $1.50 per Verizon to retrieve the number.  These calls are annoying.

From looking at the other messages from those who've received calls from the same number, I wonder if I call the number back and tell them I'm on THE DO NOT CALL LIST if they will stop?

I would never press a number one of these calls referenced, nor would I try to call them back.  There are scams out there that will transfer your phone so people can use it for long distance calls.  This has been done by inmates running up people's phone bills.  All I did was look at caller id and put them on block.

I received a call to day and have followed your suggestion to call the FTC.  They have given me a reference # and if I receive any additional phone calls/numbers I have been asked to call back with any new information to add to their information as well as my own information.  Thanks....

I just sent this number and info to the State of Wisconsin "No Call Registry" after getting calls from them.  Hope is works.

Received the same information, requesting to lower my credit card bill.
Was hung up on when I told them that I was on the Do-Not-Call List

Caller ID shows "Call Center" from this tel#. I didn't even bother answering because I know that it is just either some telemarketer or some sort of sales.

Thanks for this link. EVERYONE needs to take time to file this form. The FCC will investigate. No call complaints need to be filed after every offending call. but also an FCC complaint. Take the time to file and we will get action.

No they will not stop! It will get worse. Report them to the FCC. Link to FCC email form is in a post above. NO CALL complaints only go in a data base. No one reads them unless a complaint is filed with the FCC then the FCC checks to see if complaints were filed with no call. This is why everyone must report this to the FCC. I still advise emailing your Congress person about this violator that willfully violates the no call system paid by tax dollars and the slow time consuming process required to get the FCC to stop them. The no call system should have the power to trace these crooks and stop them. Phone companies should be held accountable for not disconnecting offending numbers when reported. Time our Congress does sometime to help the common folks instead of bailing out credit card companies paving the way for scammers like these. Bring back bank bankruptcy and these kind of scams will disappear and credit card companies will be more CAUTIOUS WHO THEY LOAN MONEY TO.

Here is an easy way of locating these crooks. Have law enforcement call them claiming credit card debit. Give them a credit card number to charge their $695 fee to and then they can be traced through the credit card charges. Finding these crooks is not difficult, finding law enforcement that cares is. The FBI could have these crooks in less than 48 hours.I think it is well established they are located in Florida and that makes sense because Florida is full of all kind of scammers. It is a scammer paradise because of lax laws and failure to enforce the ones they have. Scammers and harassers like these are too small to get the Feds excited. I would not be surprised if money scammed by this company goes to fund terrorism like other Florida scammers. I am just sick of politicians weakening law enforcement and passing laws that help scammers.

Got a call from 301-882-9986 at work.  Nothing.  Didn't say a word when I answered the phone.  Just hung up.  Why do these morons bother?  lolol

They just called and it listed out of state on my home phone through t-mobile. I answered and pressed 1 to speak to someone to tell them I'm on the do not call list. She said all I had to do was press 2 to be removed and then hung up on me. I don't know if that will work but verrrry rude.

A female called one day and then a male named "tim" called the next day reporting that they could lower my current credit card rates.  They refused to give a phone number that they could be reached at.  Both callers stated that this was the last day to take advantage of this offer.

Several repeated calls over a 2 week period--again--wanting to know if I wna to refinance my home, etc...or they hang up when answering machine picks up////

Hello,  I am calling regarding your current credit card account.  I'd like to inform you that we can lower your current credit card rates.

Spammer Scammers wanting to lower my CC rates. I push one and call the other person a "LOOOSER"! Most of the time they hang up and every now and then you get one that will get mad.

There is nothing we can do to stop them so after you get mad start getting even.:^)

They get called loser enough they will find a REAL JOB.

IF THEY ARE STILL CALLING - FILE COMPLAINTS WITH THE FTC IMMEDIATELY - THEY HAVE BEEN BANNED!

Credit Card Rate Reduction Scammers Banned From Telemarketing
Canadian firm ordered to pay $7.8 million fine


July 13, 2009
A federal judge has slapped a telemarketing ban on a Canadian outfit that targeted U.S. consumers with false claims that it could reduce their credit card interest rates.
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the court entered a permanent injunction that puts the defendants out of the telemarketing business. It also bars them from misrepresenting that they are affiliated with consumers' credit card companies, or that they can get consumers' credit card interest rates reduced.
The court also ordered the defendants to pay more than $7.8 million.
According to the FTC's complaint, the telemarketing operation cheated about 12,000 consumers out of more than $7.8 million between 2005 and 2007 by falsely claiming that it could substantially reduce consumers' existing credit card interest rates and save them thousands of dollars in interest and finance charges.
The defendants are Select Personnel Management Inc., based in Ontario, doing business as Select Management Solutions Canada; 1402473 Ontario Limited; 1489841 Ontario Limited; 2105635 Ontario Limited; Special T Services Group Inc.; United Registration Services Inc., as well as individual defendants James Stewart, Luigi Paulozza, and Philip J. Richards.
The FTC charges that they stated or implied--falsely--that they were affiliated with consumers' credit card companies. For $675 plus $20 for shipping and handling, according to the complaint, the defendants sent consumers promotional materials with promises to substantially reduce their interest rates, and a "financial profile form" for them to complete and mail back.
The complaint states the defendants promised to reduce the interest charged on credit cards to rates between 4.75 percent and 9 percent, save consumers at least $2,500, and refund the cost of their services to consumers who did not save at least that much money.
In fact, according to the FTC, the operators of the scam did little more than add their own fee to consumers' credit card balances. The extent of the rate-reduction services consisted of setting up three-way telephone calls with consumers and their credit card companies, and asking that the companies lower the interest rates. Those requests typically were denied.
The FTC said the defendants' misrepresentations violated the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The agency also charged the defendants with violating the TSR by "spoofing" telephone numbers so that their calls appeared on consumers' caller identification services as coming from another number, and by failing to provide the names of the defendants or their telemarketer on caller identification services.



http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/07 ... ixzz0LA5BKhMQ&D

They called me today and I let them go through their whole spiel. Here's what they do: they take your credit card numbers, the 800 numbers on the back of the cards, etc., then they "qualify" you. You have to have a high interest rate and more than $4000 in debt. If you are in "good standing" with the credit card companies, they transfer you to a "financial advisor" (mine was Marjie Taylor, she said). She explains that they make their money by helping the credit card companies get more people to use their cards, which people have stopped doing as much because of the high interest rates the banks are charging. The credit card companies started this "client retention program" because they figure if they can get those high interest rates down from those evil, greedy banks, I will use my card more often.  It so happens I do have a business card with a high interest rate, which explains why I was on the line with them for so long. Plus I was reading everyone's comments and the FTC information on their site so it took a long time to get through all that so I kept it going. Marjie explained that for the measily sum of $1,590.00 that I would mostly miss being on my credit card because of the savings that, my new lower interest rate would basically absorb, for that amount would basically "disapear" and I would not even notice its' having been there!  Wow!  That's some kind of math, I said!  I tried to say no thanks, I'll contact the business card myself and since then I've gotten a number of calls from them.  I got off the phone cleanly to get another call, after telling her no, but I didn't wait till she GOT THE MESSAGE, so she kept calling back and I kept ignoring her call, thanks to Caller ID.

So there's the whole story.  Save yourself the trouble and hang up or don't answer in the first place.

Karen

Received a call from this number-- caller ID said New Market, MD. They left a message on my machine telling me it is my last chance to settle my credit card debt. Being as I do have some debt I was worried until I found this page...scammers...beware!

They called me on July 14th, five days after a US District Judge issued an injunction against them.  I reported them to the FCC, but the so-called "Do Not Call" list isn't worth the paper it's printed on.  All that filing a comnplaint will do is put them on a list of complaints recieved, the FCC do not actually prosecute complaints, the list is maintained for the use of local & state enforcement agencies, so as well as logging a complaint with them, file one with your state AG, and, in this case, with the US District court that issued the injunction.