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What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: Speedy
Date: June 25, 2020 12:05PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: Acer
Date: June 25, 2020 12:22PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: GGD
Date: June 25, 2020 12:34PM
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What’s the deal with “Rachel from Card Services”? Your top 3 questions answered.
August 21, 2015
by Bikram Bandy
Do Not Call Program Coordinator, FTC
Have you heard this message?
“Hi, this is Rachel from Card Services calling about your credit card account. It appears that you are now eligible for a significantly lower interest rate on your account. However, this offer is about to expire, so please press 1 now to be transferred to a live representative who can assist you in securing your lower interest rate.”
Rachel and her cohorts — Anne, Tiffany, Michael, Heather and others — from “Card Services” have been annoying people for years with their illegal robocalls. And the FTC is working hard to stop them — both bringing cases and hosting competitions to develop robocall-blocking technology. So, what’s the deal with these calls, and why won’t they stop? We’ve got answers to your top 3 questions.
1. Why does “Card Services” keep calling me?
The FTC has shut down more than a dozen of these “Card Services” companies — including one this past June and yet another in July. But there are lots of other companies, and new ones pop up often. Lots of boiler rooms in the U.S. and overseas use the exact same recorded message by Rachel and friends, running a scam to — supposedly — reduce your credit card interest rate. An active operation can make millions of calls — so that’s why Rachel is still calling you.
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: Lizabeth
Date: June 25, 2020 02:13PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: JoeH
Date: June 25, 2020 02:39PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: Ca Bob
Date: June 25, 2020 03:32PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: PeterW
Date: June 25, 2020 04:52PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: June 25, 2020 04:55PM
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Ca Bob
There should be an appropriate way for the victims of these calls to waste the time of the live scammers who eventually have to pick up the phone in order to steal your credit card information. If we all cooperated with them long enough to waste a minute of their time, would that make their business untenable?
Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: Numo
Date: June 25, 2020 06:25PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: bobinmurphy
Date: June 25, 2020 08:15PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: Mr Downtown
Date: June 25, 2020 11:54PM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: PeterW
Date: June 26, 2020 06:48AM
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Re: What happened to Credit Card Services?
Posted by: JoeH
Date: June 28, 2020 02:04PM
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Ammo
I may be throwing pebbles at boulders, but every time I get a spam call, I block the number it came from.
Or maybe the number is phony, too?