832-377-3059

OMG! People are getting revenge on these card services [***]! This seems to be the most recent video/call prank on youtube, but there are so many others if you search "card services". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv1HpNxHkkI 

They wont stop calling, and I'm on the DNC list, so I'm totally going to try this!!

Calls from this number continue to come in at our home, but there is no way to opt out.  What use is the National Do Not Call Registry if jerks like this are able to persist, freely, in invading the privacy of our homes and adding to our frustration.  There is no way on God's green earth that we have any "pre-existing business relationship" with these idiots.  

Take them down and out, fast!

GREAT NEWS - The calls have stopped ... I think.

Here is what I did.  

I decided on that I would start calling the companies that were listed and speak directly to someone in authority.  I decided not to be angry but to mearly explain to them that their names were being associated, on the complaint blogs, with a scam and that I didn't think that they would like it if were true.  I told them that I had no information that they were making the calls but that because they were in the telemarketing business then maybe they cold stop it.

Well, I only called a few companies.  I spoke to Key One Solutions of AZ and spoke with a very nice woman.  I also spent a bunch of time tracking down someone from AnswerNet who would talk to me.  I eventually went to the President's page on their website and clicked through to his LinkedIn and Facebook pages.  Then I sent him a message.  He said he was going to do something but didn't so I called the company and spoke with his executive assistant.

What every I did, or maybe it was something else, IT WORKED.

My hats are off to AnswerNet for doing a good job.  The same thing for Key One Solutions.

Ted C.

Spoofed numbers are already illegal.

How it works:
http://onthespotblog.com/on-the-spot-blog-sti ... older-services/ ...
http://onthespotblog.com/tag/cardholder-services/

We need CRIMINAL penalties against the companies that are profiting from these calls. Follow the money, slap them in jail, no one left to outsource to overseas boiler rooms, problem solved.
Since they are operating across borders it should become a federal felony and should be handled by the FBI under the RICO Act.

These calls are coming from call centers in Costa Rica and India and they are using spoofed (false)
numbers, which in itself is illegal. They do cold calling for or sell the leads to numerous companies in
this country and they know that what they are doing is illegal. Tomorrow this same number may be selling Cruises, Timeshares or Security Systems but if you follow the money it usually ends up in the hands of an American LLC. Keep complaining to the FTC and FCC, and start bugging our politicians to pass laws to make it punishable in criminal court instead of handing out fines that they don't pay. Another course of action is to contact phone companies to find out why they won't block spoofed numbers. With today's technology that should be an easy thing to do, unless they are somehow profiting from the use of their systems.

Robocalls are illegal unless you have given them prior permission in writing (not worded into some small
print contract from a 3rd party) and are absolutely illegal to a cell phone.  The Telephone Consumer
Protection Act permits individuals who have received certain unlawful telemarketing, such as junk faxes
or telemarketing calls, to sue the violator in state courts where they may be awarded up to $1500 for
each violation.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/robocalls/  
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/07/robocall.shtm
http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/TCPA-Rules.pdf
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/donotcall/mediacenter.html

People should continually file complaints with their Attorney Generals office and also file with:
http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
If enough people keep complaining then maybe something will get done.

The FTC has already taken action against some of them however they just pay a small fine and are back at the same scam the next day:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/afl_financial.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/voiceblaze.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/12/roycox.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/03/voicetouch.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/robocalls.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/12/robocall.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/09/twi.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/02/robocall.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/05/robocalls2.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/12/jpm.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/06/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/donotcall/mediacenter.html
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/03/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/voicetouch.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/11/sonkei.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/05/ams.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/01/khalilian.shtm

I will say it again, we need CRIMINAL penalties against the companies that are profiting from these
calls. Follow the money, slap them in jail, no one left to outsource to overseas boiler rooms, problem
solved. Since they are operating across borders it should become a federal felony and should be handled by the FBI under the RICO Act.

Arkansas sues robocallers:
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/aug/0 ... arketing-firms/
Missouri sues robocallers:
http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/236974-kost ... nies-over-calls
Proof that current laws mean nothing to these scum suckers, same companies that have been sued in the past:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/12/roycox.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/06/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/03/asiapacific.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0923193/111219roycoxcmpt.pdf
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/donotcall/mediacenter.html

Write our Congress and Senate. We need CRIMINAL penalties against the companies that are profiting from these calls. Follow the money, slap them in jail, no one left to outsource to overseas boiler rooms, problem solved.
Since they are operating across borders it should become a federal felony and should be handled by the FBI under the RICO Act.

Lately there has been a lot of information about AWD, LLC from Phoenix being one of the major scammers that have charged thousands of dollars on peoples credit cards without performing any services.
My question is if anyone knows if this is "Americans With Disabilities" (a known fraud outfit) from Phoenix or "Ambrosia Web Design" also out of Phoenix. I don't believe these companies are linked but that is why I am asking.

They are rude and obnoxious... no mercy for these scum bags who refuse to follow the rules and get business the old fashioned way... earn it, ethically.

An employee working there told me the name of the owner....He uses a spoof number on the dialer to call people and is actually a scumbag lawyer running  a side business. His name is Mr. Robert M. Rosenberg, give him a call at 832-816-2955.

They all me all the time.
One time I really got this guy going and he ended up calling me a stupid [***] and to [***]...ect.  I would like to report them but I am not sure how.  I know that when they call they are from the WCA.  I am still trying to figure out how to record them from my phone.

I have been receiving calls from these 'card services' telemarketers for over a year now. I have been blocking each number they have called with (over 35 at this point). And I have been filing complaints with the FTC Do Not Call Registry and the FCC complaint site, to no avail. I do suggest you all do the same, and do not talk to them or call them back.

But to really get some attention, I created a petition on the White House We The People site. Please go there and sign it, we have to get the word out any way we can:

http://wh.gov/pJ8s

Tried to read it and sign, but the petition apparently didn't get enough traction & the link doesn't work anymore:

"The petition you are trying to access has expired, because it failed to meet the signature threshold. "