I am willing to believe that "Saver" / "Savor" (and Savoir / Savion / Simon Says / Whatever Alias Is Next) was kept in the dark about the true nature of a call center job. I am not willing to believe that those same ignorant phone drones never have heard any of the following from people they are meant to "qualify" for sale closers:
- "My number is on a Do Not Call list." - "I've told you people X times to stop calling here." - "I have no credit cards." - "I have no problem with credit card debt." - "I am happy with the rates I pay now." - "I will call my bank and not deal with strangers on the phone when I want a rate change." - "I know all about your scam and I'm not buying what you're selling."
The "just doing my job" and "poor college kid" defenses don't hold water. When you begin to suspect that your actual purpose and the job as described by recruiters are two different things, *YOU ARE NO LONGER INNOCENT*. When tele-frauds are taken to court, both companies *AND* individuals can be named as defendants. A refugee of a fraudulent business who wants to help wreck his old boss must accept some risk. If you're too worried about covering your own tail, that's going to help the offending company more than the authorities.
I have gotten a bunch of calls from this scam, credit card services, using or spoofing, it would seem, the number 435-645-8529, which is super creepy, because that number used to belong to a family I know. The discontinued it years ago. So, somehow the scammers got that number out of our phone history, it would seem. How is that even possible? So, they called me, with this spoofed number, that I did recognize. I picked it up because the curiosity was killing me. I know that number is no longer used by the family that used to have it so that made it even more strange. This last time when they called and I answered is when I heard the robo-call pitch to get lower interest rates. So, on the caller ID there was this number I recognize and just city and state. Super creepy that they could get that number and use it to specifically target me. I can't find any record of that number being used to call anyone else when I search online. Again, super creepy!
Don't you just hate it when your brain auto-corrects something when you read it? I meant to write, "They discontinued it years ago." I know that the family who used to use this number got rid of their land line service years ago and in the process, also discarded this phone number. Again, super creepy that the scammers could get it and use it to get me to answer. I always ignore their calls. I have found it's the best way.
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Got this name & number by being persistent when my own name & phone # showed up on my caller id... Card Services @ G-mail.com.... Name: Jason.... 800-647-2911...
This week I have received 19 scamming calls. By far, most of those calls had no CID information and were placed in the wee hours of the morning. For months the calls came during the day, but after I blocked hundreds of them, I'm now getting them all night long. How does it feel to selfishly and abusively telephone people who do not want to be called? Why on earth would anyone trust a caller who hides his/her identify and tries one manipulative tactic after another in an attempt to trick people into answering the phone? Why would a legitimate business interrupt their potential customers' sleep? Your excuses are pathetic. Get an honest job.
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