FTC Shuts Down Robocall Scammers Pretending To Be FTC

The best thing to do with these vermin is to pretend that you have a lot of credit card debt, with a high interest rate. Then tell them you have to "find" your credit card. You can usually waste several minutes of their time, while you work on something else. This ties up their representatives so they cannot scam money off genuine suckers. I think one of these "Rachel from Cardholder Services" clones tried to discourage that by making you wait to talk to a representative (I just hang up at that point), but they also discourage people from whom they might actually be able to steal credit card information. It cuts both ways.

By the way, if they impersonated the FTC, or any other Federal agency, that is a crime as opposed to a civil tort. They ought to be prosecuted criminally by the Federal government. Some scammers even impersonate the FBI, which investigates Internet crime; an excellent way to get themselves to the top of the FBI's priority list!

I bought a Panasonic KXTG6841B phone that lets you block up to 250 numbers. It can also block unidentified numbers. I have entered about 60 numbers but it looks like only about a dozen are constant repeat offenders.

Waqar