I got a call several days ago from my number. I didn’t answer; next time I will and report it.
Along with the usual “Rachel” calls, I’ve been getting daily “press 1 to hear this message in English” calls, and “are you xxxx xxxx (someone’s name) press 1” calls.
Fortunately, the “free security system” calls have stopped for now, but as the political season approaches, the political and polling robocalls are on the increase.
I hope they all die.
I can see that we all hate ‘Scammers’. Well now, I feel better after all of the advice. Best of luck to all of you in your endeavor’s. Time to get outside and get more chores done!
Psst,...the killer is using your bedroom phone,..get out quickly.... (just kidding)
Had a similar problem. Im on do not call list. Contaced fed to alert that company using various numbers to make pitch. I have actually held on to speak to live person. Tried to “walk” them through disclosure. They will hang up. Fed said they cant track them so ignore the numbers. That they robo dialed to avoid detection.
I got a call on my cell phone last week while I was at work. I didn’t recognize the number and typically let all calls from unfamiliar numbers go straight to voicemail, but the caller ID said it was from Chico California, and although I haven’t seen or spoken to them in over 20 years, I do have an uncle and two cousins living there.
So I answered and it was an automated message informing me that my “debit card had been locked” and to “press 1”. I hung up.
I also “googled” the number on the website “Who Called” and it came up as being the legitimate phone number of a construction company in Chico, but there were many recent posts from people saying they had also gotten the same call I did and that it was a phishing scam. Evidently if you press 1 you are then asked to enter your card number and SSN. Evidently this company’s phone number is being “spoofed”.
The same thing happened to me about a week ago! My phone number calling me! I answered it (I have caller ID), and it’s a credit card scam. Once I figured that out, takes about 10 seconds, I hung up, LOL.
They call me once or twice a week - relentlessly spamming me.
I’ve tried asking them to not call and to take me off their list. They just hang up.
This should be and probably is illegal.
It happened to me also, I was like, oh, I’m calling myself..didn’t answer it though. Just re-signed up on the do not call registry, that should take a month to take affect but I doubt the damn robo calls will ever stop.
Scam. Credit cards. Auto warranty expires. And now topical pain relievers.
All from numbers that are out of service
Scams.
Many of these calls originate in Florida...
I keep a police whistle handy when “Rachel” calls.
“The calls are coming from inside the house!!”
None of the credit card service calls I’ve gotten are legit considering I don’t have any credit cards! No more, they are poison.
Some of the calls come up on the caller ID as ‘wireless call’, on my house phone, so that you think it’s just someone on their cell phone calling.
My husband also gets strange numbers calling on his cell phone, 402 is one of the regular area codes. We’re sick of it!
This is a new trick I’ve been noticing. The number the telemarketer sends to my Caller ID is almost exactly the same as my home phone number, with only the final digit changed. It’s illegal for telemarketers to send phony Caller ID information, but the FCC and FTC are too overwhelmed with complaints to do much and these bandits often are offshore.
I had that happen a few days ago. The phone rang and the caller ID showed my own phone number.
Very interesting.........Just this past week a guy I play softball with saw his own number listed on his caller ID too......he didn't answer the phone tho
I was getting about one call a week on my cell for "Credit Card Services". I started making sure I talked with them. I could usually take up about 2-3 minutes listening to their spiel. I would then tell them I had a question. "Why are you calling a number on the National 'Do Not Call' Registry?"
click
It took three of these but the evidently wised up and stopped calling.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I was getting some days 10 calls a day from the same “card services” scammer with caller ID showing a number that was my number except for a different last digit.
I called ATT (my phone service company) and pressed the connection number for the “cancel my service” department. Told the nice ATT rep who answered, about the numerous scam calls and said that if we could not find a solution that I would need to cancel my 2 land lines and use only my Verizon cell phone from now on.
First she tried to tell me that there was nothing ATT could do about it, and that I simply needed to go sign up for the National do-not-call list. I told her that if that was my only option since the list was a joke, then cancellation of ATT was the only answer to the problem.
She gave me “call blocking” at no charge, entered in the offending phone number, and said to try that, which I agreed to hold off on the cancellation of ATT for a few days to see if this option worked. I didn't have a whole lot of faith, thinking scammers would just change the number 1 by 1 digit and keep calling.
Sure enough they did call about an hour later with caller ID changed by one digit.
But then, right after that........ all the spammer calls from them stopped completely. It has been a week now and no more calls from them. Not sure if ATT did something or if the spammers have been put out of business.