Another Rachel from Card Services scam number

"Card Services".  Only my fifth call this week.  Even robocallers take time off at the holidays?

ahh, have'nt answered from what I see, that PITA "Rachel" is backkkkkkkk. Now there's a number on top of this B.S. Unlisted & DNC never count anymore. Wish we could afford that call block phone.

I am getting repeat number of calls from this number even though we are on a do not call list. Called back & requested our number be removed. It's all such a headache.

Looks like old Rachel is back in business - got one of her solicitations today...

The recording said something about this being my final notice regarding taking advantage of the  "financial stimulus" (whatever the hell that means in 2012). Press 1 for more information, etc.

They probably want credit card information.

Got this "Card Services" call again today!

"This is your second and final..." and I hung up at that point and blocked the number on my cell phone. Latest advice, according to my local TV station, is to hang up as quickly as possible. According to the reporter, responding in any way only ensures you'll get additional calls because then they've verified that the number is valid.

Automated call from 347-896-6046 pre-recorded msg. card services. I don't own any such card. This number called my cell phone. I just marked as spam in my cell phone so the next time it rings through it shows me that it's spam and I will ignore the call. This call came in at 2:30p.m. central standard time.

Thanks for the info....I am unable to block these numbers but label them as Scam1, 2, 3 etc on my contact list so I don't answer.....Ridiculous!!  One time I answered "Federal Trade Commission...How may I direct your call...."  Yeah..no more calls from that number!!  Good luck everyone!

Called, left no message.  Caller ID said "CARD SERVICES"  Oh, Rachel, you vampire, I hope the FTC and FCC and the FBI and a higher power put a "stake" through your little electronic robocalling heart, cut off your cyber head, and burn the "corpse" in the fire and brimstone of robocalling spammer hell.  Just saying...

The "Dark Forces" are on this one big time! It won't be long before these guys (Card Services) are taken down, charged for crimes, and fined. They obviously are not aware of the new equipment being used by Homeland Security and the FCC that basically does an electronic network "triangulation" of the originating caller location (even when spoofing numbers or using a telco proxy). I have had quite a few calls from this outfit and when I told them to stop calling, they actually got an attitude and used words I would not print here! They messed with the wrong guy this time for sure! I spent many years at a Telco test board and worked with Police and FBI to locate various calling parties locations. The latest technology is beyond your imagination.

Called, left no message, no caller I.D.  Robo-dialer.  Blocked the losers.

Whenever I get calls like this (one that I do not recognize and that displays no name on Caller I.D.), I forward it to my cellphone and block it with an app for that.

NEVER CALL BACK AND ASK TO HAVE YOUR NUMBER REMOVED.
These jerks then know it is a valid number and sell it to other telemarketers!
You will now be rewarded with even more unwanted calls.

Called 11/27/2012 at 11:55 AM.  They'll just keep getting my phone company's do-not-call message no matter what fake number they use.

Called me today with some b***s***...called back and left some voice mails on the customer service line screaming at the top of my lungs and putting the headset next to the speaker phone. Whoever listens to those is about to go temporarily deaf

told the cuntt to fuckk off

told the C*** to F*** OFF

My parents got a call at their landline and this person asked for me, but had my last name wrong. The man said he was an investigator. My parents told him nobody by that name lived there and my mom called him a "fraud freak" and then he hung up (haha). My parents also got the same type of call last week, from a different number, they left a voicemail asking for me and another woman who we do not know. Also said they were an investigator. Totally different area code. Cleveland I think... 216-503-3773

The national pandemic of telephone terrorism perpetrated by desperate criminal collection agencies and scam artists of every despicable sort is because they are trying to terrorize people who are naive enough to answer and submit to unsolicited telephone calls or written "collection" letters that have no legitimate legal debt associated with them or any of the companies, universities, or whomever else they claim to represent. Because most "little guys" were bankrupted by the criminal Wall St / Congress / Big Oil / Big Bankers / Big Business / Military / Robber Barons, so the desperate collection agencies are attempting to collect unpaid debts from innocent people by terrorizing them into submission. News reports claim that some of these nefarious rogue calls are originating from overseas, where the caller claims to be a relative down on his or her luck who needs hundreds or thousands of dollars to get out of trouble, a policeman or government agent threatening their unwitting victims with lawsuits, fines, garnishments, seizures of property and imprisonment, and any other unconscionable tactic they can use to terrify and swindle the unwary out of their life savings.

Word of advice. NEVER answer any calls you don't recognize or are not expecting. Use selective call rejection service if available, or switch to an Internet-based telephone service which provides comprehensive call rejection options. If rogue calls become chronic, turn off all the ringers on all of your phones except one, and set its volume to the minimum setting. Digital hardware call blockers, the popular "DIGITONE Call Blocker 10" for example, could help or do harm depending on how high-tech and aggressive the rogue callers are against your phone number. The more technology you use against them, the more likely they will use technology more aggressively against you to the point where your phone could ring more frequently from rogue calls and in middle of the night hours. So staying lower-tech could actually help to keep your phone a bit more under their unrelenting predatory radar. If you don't answer the call and the caller is legitimate, they will usually leave a voicemail after the first or second try. Rogue callers almost never leave voicemail messages because that could be used as evidence against them if it came to a lawsuit, albeit spoofed calls are backed by governments and corporations, so there is nothing the little guy can do against such illegitimate activities but to block and ignore them. If you receive a rogue letter in the mail warning you of some "collection" action against you, if you don't actually owe it, reply with a short letter stating that you don't owe it. Or if you do owe all or part of it, reply with something like "You claim I owe you a debt. Under §809 FDCPA, I request validation of this debt."

Only give them your name as THEY have written it to you (e.g. ?John Doe? not ?Jonathon Q. Doe? or however you normally sign your own name), address, and the account number they report. But if you do not owe the debt (zombie debt, aged debt, mistaken or stolen identity, forgery, etc.) state that you have never done any business with them or with the (alleged) original creditor of any kind and you expect the collection agency to close the matter, stop harassing you and take any bad credit marks they've caused off of your credit rating, and furthermore, that any further contact from them must be in writing on their official business correspondence letterhead. Send your letter to them a.s.a.p., always within thirty days, first class certified mail return receipt requested. If they refuse it and you get the letter back unopened, leave it unopened and save it in your files as evidence against them should they pursue legal action against you. If they did receive it and continue to pursue action against you, let them. The judge will throw it out of court. If the rogue collection agency sells your account to another rogue collection agency just tell them the claim has been proven invalid and offer to send them a copy of your letter to the previous rogue collection agency.

Warn all your friends about this rash of desperate collection agency terrorism, and how to combat it. Knowledge is power. The more you learn how to combat rogue collection agencies, back-taxes scammers, phishing scammers, "faith and family" scammers, political action committees and other low-life flimflammers, the more you will learn how easy it is to do.

Above all, keep a record of everything, of every rogue call w/ caller ID information displayed including time and date of each call. Maintain a complete file on any snail-mailed intimidation from rogue collection agencies, including copies of all correspondences and postal receipts. Reporting rogue calls on sites like 800notes.com, whocallsme.com, phoneowner.info is a great idea too, because many people find these sites by googling for the rogue number(s) after receiving calls from them.

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Start Here:
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs3-hrs2.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=%C2%A7809+FDCPA
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=zombie-debt
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=slander-of-credit
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=limited-liability-company+collection-agency
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs27-debtcoll.htm
http://www.ehow.com/way_5849463_do-up-certified-dispute-letter.html
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Battling-Consumer-Debt-Collectors-Part-2-I-Do-Not-Owe-This-Debt
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Sample-letters-for-disputes-to-creditors--collectors-and-credit-bureaus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDCPA
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/Disputing ... ute-letter.html
(most say the above sample letter is too long and should be much shorter)
http://www.fair-debt-collection.com/statue-limitations.html
http://www.spooftel.com/

Credit Report:
https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

USPS:
https://www.usps.com/send/insurance-and-extra-services.htm

Other links:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/29 ... tors/index.html
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Defeat-a-Collection-Agency
http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/category/12/103/358/
http://clarkhoward.com/topics/drop_dead_letter.html
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Information for filing complaints against rogue telephone calls, telephone harassment, false "bill collector" harassment, etc., in the United States and Canada (pursue legal action only as a last resort):

UNITED STATES

US National Do Not Call Registry, file complaint: https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov 1-877-382-4357
File complaint online: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en
that is at www.ftc.gov

Federal Communications Commission
Telephone toll free:  1-888-225-5322
http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html
File complaint online: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumers.html
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

FCC Abandoned Calls Complaint form:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/1088D-R.pdf
email:  fccinfo@fcc.gov

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/us/


INTERNET CRIME:
File report for Internet Crime at:
Internet Crime Complaint Centre
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx


CANADA

RCMP Phone busters
Telephone toll free: 1-888-495-8501
Mon-Fri 8:30-5:20 pm (Eastern Time)
E-mail: info@phonebusters.com
RCMP Website is at: http://www.phonebusters.com  
File complaint online:  https://www.recol.ca/intro.aspx?lang=en
(Register with a password and then can continually file complaints)

Canada National Do Not Call Registry:
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
Telephone toll free to File A Complaint: 1-866-580-3625
(to withdraw a complaint is 877-249-2782)
CRTC online complaints form: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/pfplin-fccoin-eng
that is at  www.crtc.gc.ca

Better Business Bureau, Check out a Business, find owner, contact info; file a Complaint:
http://www.bbb.org/canada/

I GET 2 -3 CALLS FROM 1-347-896-6046 AND I AM ON THE NO CALL LIST

card services.telemkt.

The problem with blocking each number is every "Card Services" ID has a different number and area code---ie, last six Card Service calls: area codes--417, 786, 347, 407, 914, 347--hopeless. Keep complaining to FCC, if millions did, maybe........

The FTC just took down 5 of these scum suckers. Obviously they have more to go.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/11/robocalls.shtm

What To Do When You Get an Illegal Robocall; http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/robocalls
1.    Hang Up. Do not press 1 or any other numbers to get off the list.
2.    Consider blocking the number
3.    Report it at http://www.fcc.gov/complaints
4.    Report it at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
5.    People should continually file complaints with their Attorney Generals office.
Register your phone numbers online at http://www.donotcall.gov or call (888) 382-1222 (must call from # you want removed).

I have greatly reduced the number of calls to my cell phones by going to my carriers website (Verizon) and they allow me to block up to 5 numbers for 90 days. Since these scum change numbers every 30 I have had a very peaceful time. Call me once shame on you, call me twice shame on me. I also put it in my contacts list under Scum Suckers and assign it NO ring tone so at least after the first call they won't bother me anymore (I have filled all of the numbers in each and am up to Scum Sucker 47 now). This is only a whack-a-mole solution however it is the only one I can offer.
The criminals behind this operation aren't going to pay attention to you asking to be removed from their list. Their calls cost them nothing and they can make a million of them a day so they have no intention of ever removing someone. When you press a key to talk to them all that is accomplished is to verify that they have a working number.
If you want to stop these calls then you need to dry up their revenue source. Your phone company is charging you a fee for caller ID. Your phone company pays the scammer for sending their caller ID information. Your phone company pays only a fraction of a cent per call and you pay $5 to $15 to your phone company. The scammers send out millions of calls per day which amounts to a significant amount of money however your phone company is charging a large amount to millions of customers. This may have something to do with the phone companies inability to stop these calls. You can also see why the criminals keep calling even though they know you won't fall for their scam. If someone does make the mistake of answering the phone and falling for their con then it is just icing on the cake for them. These people are the lowest form of filth on this planet.
In order to stop this we need legislation making it illegal to charge for caller ID. If a phone service wishes to operate it would need to provide the caller ID at no charge to other phone providers and to it's customers as part of the service. Here is the $50,000 solution that the FCC is looking for and it doesn't cost anything.
Civil action by the FTC against such criminals is totally ineffective. These criminals need to be charged with Federal Felonies and subjected to significant jail time. All of those involved know that they are violating FTC regulations. The FTC levies huge fines, then rescinds them based on inability to pay. The FTC settles for the minimal cash on hand, and enjoins them from future telemarketing. The criminals sign off, then go right back to business as usual. These same people under different companies have been sued in the past and have only paid a minimal fine. The government needs to go after them using the RICO act. That will be the only effective means of dealing with this.
Here is an excellent blog site that I found that explains how one company is getting away with this activity.  
                               http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com

Thank you for assembling and sharing all that great information, Nobody!

got a call, pushed 1 for more information. No one picked up.

Caller ID showed CARD SERVICES.  The message left was just like WDG above.

So much for the FTC taking action. Apparently, these scammers are unimpressed, as I just got another call from them from this number. I have used their internal opt-out several times in the past, to no avail.

Caller ID: CARD SERVICES

Their recorded message started while the outgoing message was running, so the first part of it was cut off, and it did not repeat, as it has in some previous cases. MESSAGE: "...additions and associated changes before the next billing cycle. Again, this is your final notice, as it relates to the financial stimulus. So press one now to take advantage of this, today."

Complaint filed.

Can't get these scammers to quit calling me.  I get 3-4 calls aweek.