A REAL company wouldn't spoof their name on caller ID. "John" from "New York" - I hung up on him. Wish we could block more than 10 callers... but then they use a different phone number. You'd think the legit phone companies would find a solution for these scammers...
Unfortunately, the name (CNAM) that appears on your caller ID is dependent upon which databases your own phone company uses to look up names based upon the callerID (CID) that they receive from the phone company sending them the call.
The caller ID can be spoofed easily enough, which makes the caller ID name useless, of course. But even if the caller ID is NOT spoofed and the call is legitimate, the caller ID name may show up incorrectly, anyway. There has, to my knowledge, NEVER been a single database that handled every assigned telephone number that has ever existed. Even when people used to think that AT&T was the only phone company there was, there were still other phone companies with other databases. A small town on the west coast that you've probably never heard of before fits this description. The had some areas with AT&T service, but also a LOT of the population was covered by ITT, instead. The town's name was "Los Angeles."
To this day, I am having trouble with my current phone company making sure that my name shows up correctly in the most-used databases, and even when I can confirm it does get sent to some phones, it **still** does not show up correctly when I call certain ComCast phone customers. It never has, and probably never will.
The moral is, don't rely on CallerID to give you a correct number for a person calling you, and NEVER rely upon the caller ID name AT ALL. If you have the callerID name feature, you may be paying extra for it. Just learn the numbers of the callers you expect to be calling, and don't answer calls from numbers you don't recognize. Send them to voice mail first, if anything, and then do a reverse seach of the number on your computer at your leisure, if you want to do that.
We had the exact same experience. NA Bancard demanding we pay $800.00 to cancel account. We never received the Bancard document detailing the 3 year term which which was "buried" on page 14, item 24. This has been a terrible experience. Never again will we make agreements with phone solicitors.
I just had a LONG conversation with Evan from Sekure Cost Analysis (although when he gave me the email address to which he hopes I will send our statement it ended with "sekurecostreview"). He informed me that 70% (NOT 30%) of his company's business is derived from customer referrals. That seems like a big difference. Furthermore, how would one check on that statement?
He also asked me when I could get the statement to him and when I told him it wouldn't be before next week, he talked a bout a "big portfolio going out the end of this week" and pressured me to send it by the end of this week, saying he will call me Thursday to "follow up". What's to follow up on!?
Some of these folks are relentless and patient. I once talked to a telemarketer for a processor for over 45 minutes (I was curious to see how long he would keep trying). Their ability to answer all the questions still does not protect a potential victim from outright lies OR from the frustration, lost time, and lost money entailed in trying to back out of a situation once the light dawns.
Ask other business owners who run a tight ship which processor they use and what kind of rates and customer service they are receiving. Knowledgeable personal referrals are as good as gold.
Hi guy, I am currently unemployed and saw an advertisement on Kijiji Montreal that they are hiring right now. Checked their phone number on CANADA411 found their company names SEKURE CARD SERVICES.. Started researching and found your website. Appreciated the feedback from you buys and thanks for your warnings!
Okay, I have a question. Where are you really located?
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Peter Davis
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I've been worried about doing business over the phone for a long time but I honestly was surprised to see that these people really did deliver on what they said they would do. I had close to 1500 in cancelation fees with Chase and they paid it off and got me a really great rate, contract ? Of course there's always a contract but 3 years is a lot better than the 5 years was going to be stuck with Chase paying nearly 5 percent.
I will admit the calls are dammed annoying though, they must have called 25 times before I agreed to send my statement. In the end I'm glad I did but I still receive 15 calls a day from different companies claiming they can do better...Is there a way to get all these people to stop calling me ?
Why would they stop calling when their tactics worked? You seem to respond to telephone harassment in a way that the harassers want. Hey, let's call this guy over and over and over - that's what he needs to convince him to sign up for our services. Duh.
I would never even talk to, let alone consider doing business with any entity that cold called me. Guess you're different. And by "different" I mean "shill".
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