Rachel is one persistent little bitch. She calls me about every three days, always wanting my credit card (and she doesn’t specify which!). I hang up on Rachel ever since I tried to stay on the line to tell them to put me on their do not call list (they hung up on me that time). I figured it was a scam since she never identifies the credit card she’s calling about. Plus, pushing #3 to end the calls does not work.
Glad to hear the FTC is doing something. There’ll be another one tomorrow, most likely a Nigerian prince…
I actually haven’t received a call from Rachel or Heather in the last couple of weeks. It used to be daily.
But it could be because my phone is busy with other robocalls wanting me to switch my electric company. Important message about your electric service. The government has approved an electric rate decrease. Save money on your electric bill. Important changes to your electric service. President Obama wants you to save on your electricity.
The electric service robocalls are coming in at the rate of at least two a day.
For me the calls come in waves: one week I’ll get a half-dozen calls, then nothing for a few weeks. It’s downtime now, but there’s no way to tell if that’s just temporary of course.
I’ve gotten a gazillion calls saying “It is urgent that you contact us concerning a problem with your account”, but no Rachel or any other name. Is this a different genre of robocall?
None lately, but as Ravenman says they come in waves.
Because of the Feds stupid approach to scams, they won’t stop. The FTC will stop the company but won’t stop (i.e., jail) the people involved. The companies are just shells. When one is “shut down”, they just rename the operation under a different company name and keep going.
The actual people doing this have to be thrown in jail. But that takes time and effort to go thru with a trial. So the Feds take the easy route and ask them to shut down. The company is “closed”, but the same people in the same rooms just keep going.
A notorious example of this is that “free credit report” company. Impossible to cancel during your first free month. The Feds told them to stop doing that. So they just changed their name and kept going.
Speaking of lax punishments, I have proposed this several times and it hasn’t caught on, but I have no doubt that it soon will: the penalty for these types of telemarketing calls must involved armed Predator drones.
They should pick up “Rachael” (by that, I mean the guy running the thing in AZ), take “her” to a small dark room, then charge a fee to watch them beat the living crap out of “her” on a live Internet video feed. I’m sure they could cover all of their litigation expenses and save the tax payer money.
Or they could make it into a facebook game like cow clicker only you have to buy your clicks.
1 click = phone rings once in “Rachael’s” room
20 clicks = we smack “Rachael” with a wet towel
100 clicks = we shove a cell phone up “Rachael’s” ass
… and they can get more creative from there.
I got one just now from “Cardholder services.” No name mentioned, but they said this is my final chance to lower my card interest rate to as little as 6% if I have $3,000 or more in debt. I was supposed to press 1 to speak to a “friendly agent” but it hung up on me before I could.
Final chance? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! I don’t think so.
I’ve never gotten “Rachel” or “Cardholder Services” but I do constantly get robocalls with a woman speaking in Spanish, from at least a dozen different numbers always ending in -8989. Sometimes they’ll call 10 times in an hour, and then nothing for a month or two, then 3 times every hour for a whole day, then nothing for a few weeks, …
Not understanding Spanish I have no idea what it’s about, but from what I read when Googling the numbers it’s some sort of scam.
I answered “yes” before reading the thread. My last call from “Cardholder Services” was over a week ago, though.
Although we used to be in debt over our heads many years ago and sometimes DID get legitimate collections calls, we paid everyone off long ago. The infuriating thing is that, because of our history, Mr. Legend actually pays attention to these calls and worries about them. I take care of all the finances, so I know that no one legitimate will be calling us, but he freaks out every time he hears one of these messages.
Just got one today! Wife pressed “9” to talk to a rep and asked to be put on the Do Not Call list. They said “no.” So she asked for the company name and they told her to “shut up.” This is exactly why I just don’t answer unknown callers anymore.
We got two this past week. The first time I pressed the number to speak to a live rep, but I didn’t get finished with, “Take me off your call list” before they hung up on me. The second time I just pressed the button and listened to the rep saying, “Hello, hello?” until they hung up. I figure it might have used up the time for one extra call. Anyway, I found it amusing.