Im constantly signing up my number on the Do Not Call list, why do you have to always sign up for that? You would think once you sign up, your on it for good, not every couple months
Once you put the number into the list, its there permanently unless you remove it or change it Jeff. There is no need to do this consistently.. The DNC also isn't a call blocker though and can not protect you from the criminals and illegal telemarketers that don't obey the laws. Consider maybe getting a call blocking device or phone.. You can google them and many are around $60.00 or so.
Apparently I called myself from my own land line number at 2:19 today while I was at work. And, if it is a scammer, I can't report them, since the phone number on the caller ID is mine!
I would like to track these people down, and sign them up for every mailing list on the planet, to the point their mail person would have to hire a tractor trailer just to deliver the mail every day.
Regarding the call blocking device, this is a great idea. I bought the Digitone call blocker and it worked great for several months. It cost about $100.00 and was well worth it. I plugged in all the toll free area codes and also pressed "block" when other numbers came in. The offending call would ring once and hang up. The problem is the device only can store 100 numbers. My husband and I usually get about 4-5 annoying calls a day - more during voting season. So now we are getting all the annoying calls again. I may have to just go back and block entire area codes instead of individual calls.
today at 3:45 pm CDT I got a call that displayed my name and number on caller ID. It was a credit card scam to lower my interest rate. I do not have a credit card.
Seriously, this is the answer you choose to give to people in distress?!?! Are you one of these phone harassers? Please do not listen to this person, there own name is anonimouse! Very close to Annonymous itself. In no way shape or form is anyone going to start a nuclear war over this subject matter. I sincerely hope you folks reading this have more sense than this. You folks have every right to be angry with these harassers and you have every right to ask the very people we pat taxes to to protect us! If you get harassing phone calls report them to the FCC, FTC ACT, your states attorney general and anyone else you want to complain to. If they cannot help you it has been my experience they WILL tell you who to call that can help you! but please please please, you have to call!! Lots and lots of calls is what gets these people interested. Large groups of victims looks better than a handful to there stats. I know that isn't fair but it is the way it is. They can't help if no one is going to call because they feel no one will help. It's a guarantee no one will if they don't know who you are. A lot of info given on this website is good info. Don't answer numbers you do not recognize. Most of these harassers and scammers call using long distance numbers. If you do not know anyone with that states area code you can count on it being a scammer. If they are not they won't mind leaving you a message. Most importantly if you do see a call from your own number we all no it isn't legitimately possible so just do not answer it. If they do leave you an obnoxious message than as said before this is your evidence and a lot of times if you file a police report with your local police department the phone company will put a "trace and trap" order on your phone for you. If you do use this method you will have to keep a written record of the time the harassing call came in if it is not marked by a caller ID system or answering machine. The phone company will need to know what date and EXACT time to look at. To keep vigilantism under control you will not be privy to the info they come up with, that is the reason for filing the police report. They give the info to the police department directly. During the investigation if they need to they will ask you if you have e er done business with "whomever" it is that has been calling but not always. There is help out there but you have to ask for it. Please do not think that any one person has the power to start a 3rd world war over our united states protecting its people!! That's just ludicrous of anonimouse to say that!! Hope this helps, V
We have been getting those calls on and of for 2 years. Started after my husband inquired lowering mortgage payments w/ Obama initiative. These calls, known as "Spoofing"" started offering 1% interest, that is urgent and expiring. They tell u to push 1 to talk w/ someone and 3 to be taken off list. It doesn't matter if u pus 3, they still call and if u push 1 to tell them to stop, they get angry and hang up. They are now using local towns and our own number on the caller ID. I've called back and its disconnected but in 2 minutes they call back. I've pretended I was interested to get info but they hang up on me, I've answered and said nothing, breathed heavy, or hung up when they started talking ( I know its not helping but makes me feel better ) They call early or late, sometimes leave message on machine, its maddning. I just put in report to Better Business Bureu last night. Their post said hang up, not answwer, and never give out financial info. We are on the no call list but it doesn't block them. The best way right now is to not pick up at all, it works for awhile. Hope this helps, if I get info I will report it and would love any info from anyone else!
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Receiver of call
I've received 2-3 calls from my own landline.
I finally was home tonight when ' I called' to find I'm offering myself a lower interest rate on my own credit cards. Yea me!
I asked myself for a 0 % interest rate, I was told no. So I told myself forget it.
Yeah pretty strange when the incoming call lists your name and number.
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Richie
Here's how they do it:
In 3rd world countries where the calls are coming from (we'll use India as an example here), they have a variety of tools they use, such as:
1. MagicJack, which allows them to use a different phone number each and every time they call; 2. Online call tools, which allows them to spoof a number; And last but not least, 3. a huge call center in the middle of nowhere.
Here's what they do: Let's say you're John Doe, with the number 212-555-0160.
The scammers get your phone number from a public source, such as a phone book.
They then use one of the tools listed above to spoof their out of country number (which may look like +9102030303030).
In doing so, they may use your own number against you.
Now, when they are asked for a number for a caller ID, they can simply input 212-555-0160 and call 212-555-0160 from 212-555-0160.
Now the phone is ringing, and your Caller ID says to your amazement: "John Doe 212-555-0160"
You answer the call, and you get the simple message: "Hi! This is Rachael from Card Services..."
I think you're missing ANonie's characteristic wry humor, trying to drop a little sugar on a depressingly plausible speculation. Yes, American government structure can be of help to current and potential fraud victims, but it can also be indifferent and even work against our best interest. We do have rights, but it's often left to each of us to enforce them, rather than wait for action from elected officials who first swear their allegiance to the corporations and PACs which bought their seats.
ANonie was also deflating a lament seen fairly often on complaint sites, that somehow "da gubment" has to wipe our bottoms each time we get into a mess. When apathy sets in, everything is Someone Else's Problem to fix. The hitch is that Someone Else may never show up or even see a problem.
It's not unlikely that the same disconcerting compromises reach across international borders, to the very places which harbor the criminal gangs responsible for fraud at a distance. First they misused email, because it was cheap and disposable and easy to falsify message sources. Now they also misuse the telephone networks, because VoIP makes the calls cheap and disposable and spoofing makes it easy to falsify call sources.
Companies which do business in the US have given up a massive amount of data traffic to South Asia, a place too corrupt and crammed with poverty to give any serious thought to protecting data privacy. Why do you think we don't see the same hotbeds of call center fraud shops in the European Union, where attention to privacy is closer to a sacred trust? To win back control of our data, Indian and Pakistani labor will have to be repriced higher than American wages. Since that won't happen soon, the US needs to make it much more costly for companies to abuse and exploit Americans. Some get fined and sued. Too few times, someone goes to jail. Too many have made fraud part of their business model, for either lack of manpower to stop them or a lack of will, or both. We're fighting not only the criminals with autodialers but people who have seized power without ever appearing on a voter ballot.
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