# Credit Account Services Is At It Again **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232 "2012-04-28T14:19:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/1 "2012-04-28T14:19:05Z")
The contemptible creeps at Credit Account Services (may fleas infest their nether parts) have moved to the next level of harassment. They have been calling me two or three times a week trying to sell me a new credit card. Repeatedly telling them not to call has done nothing, reporting them to the attorney general of my state has done nothing, issuing a string of obscene abuse to the mindless drone who bothers me has done nothing. Now they are engaged in activity which goes beyond annoying into outright criminal. They now are claiming suspicious activity on my “bank card” and calling me up purporting to be “Fraud Prevention Officers”. And, of course, trying to get me to give them my credit card number over the phone so they can steal from me. When I asked how they knew I had suspicious activity on my account if they did not know the account number, the irritating fucknugget hung up on me. What the Fucking Hell. If you are going to try to rob me, at least put a little effort into it, so I can have a chance to suddenly switch to asking about sexual relationships with their household plants, or something at least mildly entertaining. Dropping the call because you cannot answer the most obvious question there is shows a disturbing lack of commitment to your chosen career of attempting to steal from the gullible. Let’s see you do a little better next time. You snot-sucking offspring of the unholy union of a syphilitic musk ox and an unwashed toilet. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/2 "2012-04-28T14:33:32Z")
Let me suggest that sex with pets or farm animals is a lot more entertaining a subject than sex with house plants. But maybe that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/3 "2012-04-28T14:37:41Z")
You need to widen your horizons. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/4 "2012-04-28T15:32:16Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > You need to widen your horizons. > > Regards, > Shodan You are a jaded man. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/5 "2012-04-28T15:34:00Z")
> [@Hung\_Mung](#): > > You are a jaded man. 😃 Poison Ivy will do that to a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/6 "2012-04-28T15:47:41Z")
> [@Hung\_Mung](#): > > You are a jaded man. 😃 No, he’s still working on the vegetable kingdom, and hasn’t moved on to semi-precious stones yet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/7 "2012-04-28T16:10:47Z")
When you get a new credit card, I wish the issuing company would give you an additional fake number that automatically triggers alarms when used. Then you could give it to idiots who claim to know your account has been compromised, but they don’t know your number, but they need you to tell them your number. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/8 "2012-04-28T16:31:26Z")
One of my favorite features of our landline is an audio announcement of the Caller ID. We always wait for the second ring and announcement before getting up to answer the phone. “Unavailable,” “Out of Area” and known scum like Card Services get ignored. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/9 "2012-04-28T16:38:45Z")
> [@bup](#): > > When you get a new credit card, I wish the issuing company would give you an additional fake number that automatically triggers alarms when used. Then you could give it to idiots who claim to know your account has been compromised, but they don’t know your number, but they need you to tell them your number. A few years ago, my bank was in a merger and cancelled one of my cards to replace it with a new one that had a new number. No problem, everything went smoothly. Then a few months ago I started getting messages on my machine saying that there was a problem with my card, and giving the last four digits of the card that had been cancelled. I ignored them until one day they called while I was home. I told the guy that the card was cancelled, and he actually started to argue with me. He said that I owed money and would be in big trouble if I didn’t pay it. I hung up on him. A minute later, my phone rang, and I didn’t think before picking it up. It was the same guy. He started screaming at me for hanging up on him, and told me that “the bank” (he clearly didn’t even know which one) would be cancelling all of my cards because of my rudeness. At that point I just hung up again, and fortunately have never heard from him since. He must have obtained a list of names with last four digits somewhere and was trolling for victims. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/10 "2012-04-28T17:53:49Z")
Does it appear to anybody else that friend **Shodan** is developing a rudimentary but functional sense of humor? Anybody don’t believe in God now? ---
**Author:** ![Docta\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Docta\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Docta_G)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/11 "2012-04-28T19:54:46Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > The contemptible creeps at Credit Account Services (may fleas infest their nether parts) have moved to the next level of harassment. > > They have been calling me two or three times a week trying to sell me a new credit card. Repeatedly telling them not to call has done nothing, reporting them to the attorney general of my state has done nothing, issuing a string of obscene abuse to the mindless drone who bothers me has done nothing. > > Now they are engaged in activity which goes beyond annoying into outright criminal. They now are claiming suspicious activity on my “bank card” and calling me up purporting to be “Fraud Prevention Officers”. And, of course, trying to get me to give them my credit card number over the phone so they can steal from me. > > When I asked how they knew I had suspicious activity on my account if they did not know the account number, the irritating fucknugget hung up on me. > > What the Fucking Hell. > > If you are going to try to rob me, at least put a little effort into it, so I can have a chance to suddenly switch to asking about sexual relationships with their household plants, or something at least mildly entertaining. Dropping the call because you cannot answer the most obvious question there is shows a disturbing lack of commitment to your chosen career of attempting to steal from the gullible. > > Let’s see you do a little better next time. > > You snot-sucking offspring of the unholy union of a syphilitic musk ox and an unwashed toilet. > > Regards, > Shodan Fuck off, nobody cares. Regards, Docta G ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/12 "2012-04-28T20:17:00Z")
Well, we’ve identified who has been calling **Shodan** , haven’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/13 "2012-04-28T20:42:58Z")
No, it was definitely a human voice on the line. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/14 "2012-04-28T21:02:28Z")
> [@bup](#): > > When you get a new credit card, I wish the issuing company would give you an additional fake number that automatically triggers alarms when used. Hell, I’d pay extra for a version that automatically triggers an airdrop of hentai tentacle zombies on the scammer’s address when used. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/15 "2012-04-28T21:41:35Z")
OP, have you ever considered an air horn? Maybe you can deafen the scammers. I recommend talking real quietly so they turn the volume up before blasting away. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/16 "2012-04-28T22:01:19Z")
I did, but I started a [previous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=571685) on these people. Some one said they probably have automatic noise dampeners on the phones they are using to annoy me and try to steal from me. I still scream at them, but that is mostly for my own amusement rather than an expectation that they will experience any ringing in their heads. Not that their heads will ring - sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/17 "2012-04-28T22:58:29Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Does it appear to anybody else that friend **Shodan** is developing a rudimentary but functional sense of humor? Anybody don’t believe in God now? I will have you know, sir, that as regards **Shodan** , he has always had a wonderfully acerbic sense of humor. As to why you may not have noticed it until now, my explanation is much like the one I use for the scarcity of observed miracles: _Just because he can do it does not necessarily mean that he will._😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/18 "2012-04-29T03:47:24Z")
Oddly enough, I haven’t got a Card Services Call in months. I did actually resort to cussing at them after leading them on for a minute or two. I’m wondering if I’m on a “Do Not Call” list for telemarketers. I’ve actually had someone apologize for being a telemarketer after bagging on them! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/19 "2012-04-30T16:41:35Z")
> [@Docta\_G](#): > > Fuck off, nobody cares. > > Regards, > Docta G Right. Which is why nobody has posted in this thread. Not even you cared enough to post in this thread. Regards, meta-americans are idiots and assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232/20 "2012-04-30T17:06:25Z")
My wife and I got rid of our land line about 6 months ago. The only time it ever rang was someone annoying us, everyone else we know already called the cell numbers. I know that we should have notified the bank, credit card companies, power co., etc., but we didn’t. We notified the people we work for, of course, because they send us money. The people WE send money to can just use the damn mail as far as I am concerned. Our name has now dropped out of the new phone books that just came out and we receive no unwanted calls on our cells, it’s peace. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/credit-account-services-is-at-it-again/620232.md?page=2)