"We have important information about your credit card..."

[Kevin Womer]

I have been getting calls with a recorded message, but hang up before I can find out what they want because I am annoyed. I believe they are robo calls trying to get people to respond to prompts to sell something because CC companies will not call you concerning your account, at least mine doesn't. My CC balance gets paid every month and we check the balance often online to make sure the charges are legitimate between my wife and me. Anyone else get these type of calls lately? Just thought I would share.

Kevin

[Rich Riddle]

They are phishing and scammers. There used to be one from "Rachel in cardholder services." They amazingly won't be able to give your name or credit card number should one answer. They say it's for "security" reasons but want to get unsuspecting people to answer loads of questions. Don't fall for it.

American Express will call and frequently do call. They called me the other day to confirm a purchase.

[Mike Null]

We get an occasional call to confirm that we actually made a purchase.

[Brian Tymchak]

Not sure why, but in the last 4 months or so, the scam calls on my cell phone has gone up by 10-fold. All masking their callback # with local numbers. this last week I've been getting 2-3 calls a day from 221 and 001211.

[Myk Rian]

Not sure why, but in the last 4 months or so, the scam calls on my cell phone has gone up by 10-fold..
Install the Call Control app.

[Kevin Womer]

Not sure why, but in the last 4 months or so, the scam calls on my cell phone has gone up by 10-fold. All masking their callback # with local numbers. this last week I've been getting 2-3 calls a day from 221 and 001211.Calls to my phone have increased as well in the last several months, not as much as yours have but definitely more than usual. It always amazes me the depths people will sink to for a buck. It's sad.

[Jim Becker]

This stuff seems to come in cycles and the NoMoRobo service seems to kill most of them for me. I did get a call from Rachel dearest the other day...I hadn't heard her lovely voice in a long time. LOL It must have been a 'new subscriber' to the scam-dialer on a CID number not yet reported.

[Dick Latshaw]

We have noticed a big uptick in the number of robo calls using our local area code.:mad: I guess someone has added some logic to the robo dialer to use the local area code for the spoofed calling number.

We have missed out on a lot of auto warranty upgrades, student loan fixes, free cruises, and medical alert devices. We don't answer if the calling number is not in our address book. Figure they will leave a message if it is important. I usually look up missed calls and if it was indeed reported as a scam, I block the number. They only get one shot. Of course, they can easily generate LOTS of calling numbers.

[Roger Feeley]

I still like Bill Gate's solution. All numbers are 900 numbers with a very modest fee (say, $.001/call or even less). The money goes to the phone companies for maintaining the accounting. If a call isn't worth an extra penny to me, it's not worth making. And, Gates also suggested that we could have white lists where the incoming calls from our contact list are free. That tiny fee wouldn't matter much to us but it would kill the robo-callers who depend on thousands or even millions of calls to find one sucker.

Same with emails. All emails cost $.001 to send. It would kill the spammers overnight.

[Bruce Wrenn]

As for local numbers, we get INCOMING calls from OUR NUMBER. You read it right, according to caller ID, we are calling ourselves. Best one is on my cell, phone are calls to a disconnected number. How the heck do you call and talk to a disconnected number?

[Jim Becker]

I still like Bill Gate's solution. All numbers are 900 numbers with a very modest fee (say, $.001/call or even less). The money goes to the phone companies for maintaining the accounting. If a call isn't worth an extra penny to me, it's not worth making. And, Gates also suggested that we could have white lists where the incoming calls from our contact list are free. That tiny fee wouldn't matter much to us but it would kill the robo-callers who depend on thousands or even millions of calls to find one sucker.

That was easier to do when everything was just on the PSTN. (Public Switched Telephone Network) But at this point, a very large percentage of voice calling is "Internet based" and it's difficult to charge back a number that's spoofed. The CID (caller ID) might show a local number, but that's usually not actually where the call is originating and the originating point is extremely difficult to trace, if possible at all. (Welcome to my professional world... )

[Kev Williams]

I have Ooma at home, and it's pretty good at keeping the robocalls down. Plus, I can blacklist any number within seconds...

like THAT does any good.

But neither Ooma's internal nor it's manual blacklisting will stop my nightmare:

Google's 'updating service'. They call Every. Single. Day. Usually several different times.

And it's easy to tell when they call, as the caller ID shows a city and a state and a phony phone number. Sometimes the city and state repeats, but the phone number is different every single time. So much for blacklisting.

the list of city's in my Caller ID log, which is about 3 days worth:

Denver CO
Salt Lake City, UT
Bountiful, UT
Ogden, UT
Phoenix, AZ
Eatontown, NJ
Sandy, UT
Dwight, IL
Midvale, UT
Fort Collins, CO

- I live in Utah so most show Utah..

The call is always the same, it's a recorded call that starts talking before my answering machine message starts, so I always get the tail end of the message recorded, which says "press 7 to remove yourself from the verification system". What they WANT is for me to verify my Google listing, which I DON'T. I never asked for it, and don't WANT it. Every time a city/state call comes in, I just pick up the phone, press 7, and hang up. I've pert near worn out the 7 key on all my phones.

But

The

Calls

Just

Never

Stop...
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[Jim Becker]

Ummm...99.999999% chance that's not "Google" calling... ;)

[Robert Delhommer Sr]

I wish those blocking services like ooma worked with Verizon. You would think they would get tired of wasting their time & resources calling the same person over & over if that person never cooperates with them. I am so sick of raphael and her friends. I normally do not answer unless the caller is in my address book, but with the recent flood & DW death I am expecting all kinds of calls that are not in my address book so I have been answering. A royal pain in the rear.

[Bruce Wrenn]

Why reading this, guess who called? Yep, Rachel called. If you really want to have some fun, call back and ask for Rachel. Niece did that, and person on line who DID NOT have English as a primary language insisted that niece was Rachel, as there was no Rachel there! Kept insisting that niece was Rachel. She played him for several minutes before telling to never call again.

[Harry Hagan]

I have been getting calls with a recorded message, but hang up before I can find out what they want because I am annoyed. I believe they are robo calls trying to get people to respond to prompts to sell something because CC companies will not call you concerning your account, at least mine doesn't. My CC balance gets paid every month and we check the balance often online to make sure the charges are legitimate between my wife and me. Anyone else get these type of calls lately? Just thought I would share.

Kevin

At your request, banks and CC companies will send you alerts via email and text messages regarding bank balances and/or CC transactions and balances. My banks send daily balance reports and CC companies send alerts immediately after receiving CC transactions from merchants.

In restaurants it's not uncommon to receive email alerts before the server returns to our table if their system processes the transaction in real time.

Reviewing your monthly paper statement or checking online occasionally is no longer the best way to monitor fraudulent use of your accounts.

[Kevin Womer]

At your request, banks and CC companies will send you alerts via email and text messages regarding bank balances and/or CC transactions and balances. My banks send daily balance reports and CC companies send alerts immediately after receiving CC transactions from merchants.In restaurants it's not uncommon to receive email alerts before the server returns to our table if their system processes the transaction in real time.Reviewing your monthly paper statement or checking online occasionally is no longer the best way to monitor fraudulent use of your accounts.True, but I stated often not occasionally, that was how I caught a fraudulent charge to our account recently. We do get emails and texts. My post was about the annoying unwarranted calls I get on my cell that have nothing to do with my credit card accounts, but they make it sound like there is something wrong with your account to mislead you into thinking there is a problem.

[lee cox]

You know what I do now is when I get an annoying call. I just set the phone down with the line active. After they hang up I hang up. Maybe I can waste enough of their time to where they won't call me again or they will make a few less calls to other people. I will not give anybody account information over the phone. I am a big PayPal fan for this very reason.