On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:04:24 -0500, "Atila Iskander"
wrote:


"Hell Toupee" wrote in message
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On 8/2/2012 12:39 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
Years ago I put my name on the national no call list. After reporting
Card Holder Services to the National Do Not Call Registry web site
many times, I bought a phone that blocks phone numbers. The phone
still rings once, but then reports "caller blocked"

Card Holder Services still call from different numbers. I have even
asked several of the callers who I could sleep with to keep them from
calling. (I may have phrased it a little differently) They still
call. I have asked to speak to the supervisor and they hang up.

Anyone think this would work?
http://lemberglaw.com/debt-collectio...FQP0nAodPyYAcQ


These people are running a phishing scam where they convince you they can
get you a lower interest rate on your credit card, and then ask you for
your financial information to set it up. Since they're crooks, no, you
really can't expect to get their cooperation, and you can't expect them to
pay any attention to your complaints. Sadly, they find some victims among
the financially desperate, the gullible, and the elderly, who tend to be
much more trusting than younger generations.

According to a friend of mine whose husband has been investigating them,
part of the problem is that as their boiler room employees learn how to
run the scam, they go off and start up the same business themselves.
That's one of the reasons for all the different phone numbers. Plus the
fact that they're boiler room operations, meaning they shut down and start
up again using different numbers whenever the law starts to catch up with
them.

She said something else they'll do, if you keep asking them for
information about themselves, is to give you the names and phone numbers
of legitimate credit card companies and banks. Gullible people are taken
in by that; suspicious people will hang up and call those companies/phone
numbers, only to find out they have nothing to do with the scam.

Since there's no such thing as content-based killfiles to catch phone
spam, the best you can do is hang up as soon as you hear 'Cardholder
Services'.

There is software that will use a modem to monitor your phone line
You can enter numbers that are allowed to pass through and numbers that are
blocked
The modem will intercept and block those numbers on the black list

I haven't had a modem in a computer for many years, but I still have a
drawer full of them. If I could find software that would block what
was on the caller ID I would use it.
Not always, but even from new numbers the caller ID says Card Holder's
Services.