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    WARNING!

    Ok not fishing but I need to get this out ASAP.. so here goes..
    BEWARE of calls purporting to be "Card Services" offering to cut your credit card rate to 6.9%
    The calls start out automated but never identify where they are coming from and the call is blocked on Caller ID.
    I suspect this is a well organized effort to get credit card numbers.
    DO NOT be fooled by the Automated manner and the "Card Services" offer.
    My call got cut off for some reason.
    DO NOT give them your credit card number.
    They should have it available by using your name and another identifier and be able to read it back to you.
    Jim Dicken

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    Re: WARNING!

    Just had a call last night with no Caller ID when i answered it, an automated voice told me to hold so i hung up maybe it was this group? This was on my cell.

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    Re: WARNING!

    I received the call this afternoon. I hung up. The number did show up on my caller ID. I did a search on the area code of the number and my search indicated no such area code in N. America. The area code was 998

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    Re: WARNING!

    When I answer the phone and hear a computer, I hang up right there. If it's not important enough for a human being to call me personally, then it's not important enough for me to listen to.

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    Re: WARNING!

    I got it but dont take automated calls I hang up on em quick.

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    Re: WARNING!

    Guys, no insult meant, but why aren't you guys on the "no call" list? There's even one for cell phones. I have all our phones on these lists, and to be honest, I have not yet gotten the very first of these "steal your identity" calls Jim has warned us about.

    I strongly advise you all to look into getting your numbers on the no call lists so your number isn't in circulation.

    We did once, a year or so ago, get a call from one of those condo sales places, and it was where a friend of my wife had given them our number. After I talked with the lady, trust me, she won't give our number out again.

    Also, it doesn't hurt to have an unlisted number.

    Danny

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    Re: WARNING!

    I had my number on one of those don't call lists and it did work for awhile, but then they started coming back again and again and again and again well you get the point. I even filed a complaint but I was told that the number is sold to third, fourth,fifth parties and that there was no way they could stop all calls. So for now it is either not answer the phone or hang up when I find it is someone I don't know.

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    Re: WARNING!

    Quote Originally Posted by Danny View Post
    Guys, no insult meant, but why aren't you guys on the "no call" list? There's even one for cell phones. I have all our phones on these lists, and to be honest, I have not yet gotten the very first of these "steal your identity" calls Jim has warned us about.

    I strongly advise you all to look into getting your numbers on the no call lists so your number isn't in circulation.

    We did once, a year or so ago, get a call from one of those condo sales places, and it was where a friend of my wife had given them our number. After I talked with the lady, trust me, she won't give our number out again.

    Also, it doesn't hurt to have an unlisted number.

    Danny
    I am on the NO Call list. The Illegal People ignore the DNC list. Then too if they are calling acting like they are your CREDIT CARD company offering you a discount rate.. welllll how would that be a sales call?
    Like Guns.. if you take them away only criminals will have guns..
    with the no call list, folks trying to scr@# you will not bother with it.

    Phone Solicitors can run a sequence of numbers.. unlisted only means not in a phone book.

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    Re: WARNING!

    Quote Originally Posted by Danny View Post
    Guys, no insult meant, but why aren't you guys on the "no call" list? There's even one for cell phones. I have all our phones on these lists, and to be honest, I have not yet gotten the very first of these "steal your identity" calls Jim has warned us about.

    I strongly advise you all to look into getting your numbers on the no call lists so your number isn't in circulation.

    We did once, a year or so ago, get a call from one of those condo sales places, and it was where a friend of my wife had given them our number. After I talked with the lady, trust me, she won't give our number out again.

    Also, it doesn't hurt to have an unlisted number.

    Danny
    Danny my wife put us in the no call list just before I went on my 10 day fishing triplast year, I sorta forgot to call her. When I got home she said it would have been nice to hear the phone ring. I reminded her she put us on the no call list---- I sure miss her.

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    too bad dcbasser, I don't have a problem. We got our numbers on, and have no problems at all.

    Danny

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danny View Post
    Guys, no insult meant, but why aren't you guys on the "no call" list? There's even one for cell phones. I have all our phones on these lists, and to be honest, I have not yet gotten the very first of these "steal your identity" calls Jim has warned us about.

    I strongly advise you all to look into getting your numbers on the no call lists so your number isn't in circulation.

    We did once, a year or so ago, get a call from one of those condo sales places, and it was where a friend of my wife had given them our number. After I talked with the lady, trust me, she won't give our number out again.

    Also, it doesn't hurt to have an unlisted number.

    Danny
    I am on the no call list as well. Who knows if it was the scam artists calling me because when i picked up and didn't hear a live person....it's hang up time.

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    Re: WARNING!

    [Danny my wife put us in the no call list just before I went on my 10 day fishing triplast year, I sorta forgot to call her. When I got home she said it would have been nice to hear the phone ring. I reminded her she put us on the no call list---- I sure miss her.[

    LMBO Reckon I can get my wife on that list. The only time she calls me is to remind me that while I'm enjoying myself on the lake she is at home with the kids. I believe I would rather have the call from the scammers LOL
    Last edited by dcbasser; 04-04-2007 at 08:26 PM. Reason: spelling

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