Telemarketer Using Pay Phone,

guido

Well-known Member

Yep! That was the case a few
minutes ago. Must be a smart pay
phone. I could lower my interest
rate as LOW as 6.9% by just
pressing 1 to get it!

Guido.
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That's encouraging.

Think I'll start doing financial business with somebody standing by a pay phone, what could possibly go wrong?
 
It has to be true because it's on the caller ID

when was the last time you saw a payphone?

caller ID can be fudged to represent any dam thing they desire

did you do a callback?
and by doing so to express your hatred fall victim to everything imaginable
identity theft
associated transference of your billable acount for their please to make the next 14,000 telemarket calls
and maybe a few $1000 in amazon gift cards on the house
 
It's called spoofing or ghosting. About a month ago I got a nasty message on my voicemail. I have my cell phone set so that if someone not on my contact list calls it won't even ring just go straight to voicemail. Some guy was ticked off because he was getting multiple telemarketing calls from my phone and he wanted it to stop. He apparently did a reverse phone number lookup and called me by name. He went on to say to stop calling him or my number had been "hacked". I stopped in at my cell provider to find out what was going on. I was told telemarketers use random peoples numbers in the hopes someone will pick up. There is nothing I can do except change my number but they could just as easily use that one next. Usually they stop using a certain number after a couple weeks anyway. They figure by that time people will recognize that number and not pick up. I was also told it's not illegal as long as they don't try to pass themselves off as me when they are talking. They can however use my number to appear on peoples caller id. I fail to see a difference as far as I'm concerned. I get several telemarketing calls a day on my house phone from some medical brace. Comes from a different number each time. I don't answer them just skip and erase the message. I don't get them on my cell phone since I set it to do not disturb. I was for a while but I guess they don't like the fact the phone won't even ring so they quit. The Do Not Call List is a complete joke. There is no means of enforcing it so telemarketers just ignore it.
 


My wife and I were once eating at a Dennys in Watertown NY. The 2 guys in the booth behind us were obviously a financial advisor of some sort and his client. I couldn't help overhearing the conversation and the claims of untold wealth the advisor was promising. They left well before us I could see the advisor getting into his car and leaving. I said to my wife, "Never use a financial advisor that meets you at Dennys for supper and drives off in a rust bucket Chevy Cavalier...".
:shock:
 
Apparently it's getting more difficult to spoof numbers in the United States, though. They're going overseas now. Dad got a robocall the other day that had two 1's at the beginning of the number, but the last 10 digits were a local area code and exchange.
 
Fools and their money (if they have any) are soon separated. YOU are the most concerned money about YOUR money. From WHERE does the money
come that supports financial advisors? How could you possibly police them to put YOUR interests above theirs? If they ask you what do you expect
to make as a return on your investment and they get LUCKY and make more, do you get it?????? Doubt it....ok it's their reward for being
LUCKY.....really! Thanks but no thanks.
 
Oh there are means of enforcing the Do Not Call List, but our do nothing congress or corrupt state houses won't put any effort forth. If nothing else use a poison pill attack where someone gives the tele-scammers the data they so desire and when they use it they go to jail, if the bank doesn't know who is using it they go to jail. They say the problem is money, well that means the fines aren't high enough. If it costs them $100,000 to investigate and prosecute a case then the fine should be $200,000 so they have funding for the next one. Also put into the aw that if a person, company or organization is caught in their first offense and plead out early in the process their fine will be reduced BUT the also have to post a bond insuring they don't revert back to their ways. Before anyone gets huffy about it banks have a responsibility to know who they're dealing with.
 

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