March 12, 2008
The account services 954-733-7981 scam
by Jen (March 12, 2008)
I decided to do a link roundup about this and make it a resource post so new visitors can easily find the posts if the search engines don’t take them right to ‘em.
- My original post - just a warning to everyone
- My next post, where I talk about calling the police and Verizon. This is also the post where tons of people posted about their experience and investigations into this scam. Very valuable information here!
- My update on the fact that blocking screened calls doesn’t work like Verizon suggested, and my suggestion to tell them you’re recording the call even if you aren’t.
Some other links culled from the comment threads (but again, I highly recommend reading the comments on post #2 above, because it’s chock full of info).
- http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/archives/2007/07/02/cardholder-services/
- http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/34709834/m/443000327831
- http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-487-2273
- http://www.haloscan.com/comments/lincmad/6500520568862720776/
- http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-442-074-2550 - it would appear this thing is international, because even if they’re just spoofing international numbers as well as domestic, that involves other countries
Where to go to complain: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints_tcpa.html. I’ve emailed them and gotten only an automated response. No idea whether they’ll help or not.
I’ll keep adding to this post as needed!
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May 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I is time we started to fight back, I am going to talk very low to them so they have to turn up the volume on their phone and then blow a whistle. After they go deaf they won’t be able to use the phone.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I get these stupid calls once a week, they even leave messages of a lame recording.
I’m going to try filling a complaint, but I somehow doubt it will work.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Okay…I think we need to update our information on how people should respond to this.
Rather than use the FCC’s internet complaint form, I used the telephone number to speak directly to an FCC representative. She told me that I didn’t want to file an FCC complaint (which is only a complaint that they called me and I’m on the Do Not Call Registry), but that I wanted to speak with the Federal Trade Commission to report a possible fraud.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) actually has a website set up to take reports of phone fraud:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/phonefraud/report.shtml
On this website you’ll find a link to the complaint form and also the suggestion that you report an incident to your State Attorney General’s office (there is a link from the website to find yours).
Enough of these reports will make a criminal investigation more likely.