Someone keeps calling me trying to get my personal information what do I do?
SadToday22 asked:
These 2 companies (they could be the same acctually) keep calling my cell phone and telling me that either a credit or debit card I have that ends in XXXX wants to reward me with a free gas card & cash. It’s a total scam because they keep asking for my husband too, but by his nickname, not his legal name and the the four XXXX #s are not on any of our credit cards. I know it’s a TOTAL SCAM but who and how do I report it? My caller ID gives me a phone # for one of them (who proptly hang up when I refuse to let them speak to my husband) and the other comes up on my caller ID as 0000000000. I did call my cell phone provider and they stated the cannot trace it. How do I report this?
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These 2 companies (they could be the same acctually) keep calling my cell phone and telling me that either a credit or debit card I have that ends in XXXX wants to reward me with a free gas card & cash. It’s a total scam because they keep asking for my husband too, but by his nickname, not his legal name and the the four XXXX #s are not on any of our credit cards. I know it’s a TOTAL SCAM but who and how do I report it? My caller ID gives me a phone # for one of them (who proptly hang up when I refuse to let them speak to my husband) and the other comes up on my caller ID as 0000000000. I did call my cell phone provider and they stated the cannot trace it. How do I report this?
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February 20th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
call the Police , best thing to do
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:51 am
call the local police
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:39 am
If the caller ID is the same each time, calll your cell phone company and have it blocked.
February 25th, 2010 at 4:19 am
GIVE THEM YOUR MOTHER IN LAWS PERSONAL INFO AND THEY WILL GO AWAY
February 26th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Maybe your local police department can help. Having one of the phone numbers should be a big help
February 28th, 2010 at 1:08 am
when they call, pretend you can’t hear them
March 1st, 2010 at 6:52 am
Call the police. They will tell you who to call and perhaps assist you.
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:30 pm
I would guess that your state’s Attorney General’s office may be able to direct you to the right place.
March 4th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Put yourself on the national do not call list. When they call back tell them that you are on the do not call list and to remove you from theirs. If they keep harrassing you then I would contact the do not call list and ask them how to handle it
March 6th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
you can register your phone # with the national do not call site.
you can list cell and home #’s
If someone calls and tries to solicits you can get there # and turn them in.
March 9th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Do what I do to telemarketers. Ask them to repeat themselves over and over again. See how many times they’ll repeat everything before they get frustrated and hang up. I’m up to 13 times!
March 11th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
I say don’t give them any information, try to get some from them,and call the POLICE! If that don’t stop them ,nothing will!
March 12th, 2010 at 5:11 am
Next time they call in a real creepy voice say “I know where you live and ive seen where you sleep and god as my witness if you call me down you will pay” or when they call ask for a supervisor and tell them that the calls have to stop or you’ll contact the better business burro.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Call the police, they’ll know what to do.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Give me your maiden name, date of birth, and social security number and I’ll handle it for you.
Just kidding! Call your local law enforcement agency. Give them the phone number you do know. Or you could post the number here and we can ALL start calling them for you and telling them to lay off. Can you imagine if they got several hundred calls from Yahoo Answer folks from all over the world telling them to leave you alone? I had some fun with a telemarketer the other day. They called me at work and started trying to sell me life insurance. I told them I wasn’t well and they would be wiser not to sell me life insurance. They persisted so I told them I was terminal and the doctor had only given me 6 months to live. This telemarketer still wouldn’t give up so I made a gurgling sound and gasped for air then dropped the phone. I left it laying on the desk for about 3 minutes before they finaly hung up. I thought to myself, “now THAT is one persistant salesperson. I wish they worked for me.”
March 17th, 2010 at 3:18 am
Your best bet is to contact the Attorney Generals Office in your area. They have the ability and authority to trace or request back logs on a cell phone. Whoever told you the calls cant be traced are lazy. Especially now that this country is in war cell phones are monitored quite efficiently. If this doesn’t work let them speak to your husband and have him tell them you are represented by an attorney and all calls have to stop or legal action will take place. Make it a point to tell them the call has been traced and is being given to your local authorities. Even if you don’t do any of this and you say this to them they probably aren’t dumb enough to bother you any more.
March 17th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Whenever I hear something like this I always think how much fun it would be to spoof them by giving them a bunch of bogus information. Then they can waste their time trying to use the bogus information and hopefully get themselves in trouble.
Just write out your information ahead of time and have it handy. Give him ALL the misinformation you can. Include your false soc.#, false credit card numbers, false bank account numbers, false address. (btw, make the soc believable, use 278 for the first 3 numbers.)
Have fun. The caller derserves it.
March 19th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
just hang up
March 21st, 2010 at 1:55 am
Telemarkerters aren’t allowed to call cell phones because you have to pay for it.
Politely tell them it’s a cell phone and you’re not interested and do not call you back.
Another thing is just don’t answer.