"George" wrote in message
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On 8/2/2012 3:04 PM, 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



Most VoIP services can have blacklist or whitelist but the problem is they
are using bogus numbers so you don't know what the next number they will
sending when they call will be.

I have had my call display show my own phone number, indicating that I am
calling myself with my own phone. Sometimes the number displayed is
123-456-7890, or many other numbers that they dream up.