And you are the luckiest person in the world if you D U this.
“Rachel from Card Services” made about 13 gazillion phone calls. WAY more than “Tony from Microsoft” who just wanted to warn me that my computer might have a virus that Microsoft was monitoring.
Made me laugh out loud — and quite hardily at that!
I used to regularly get calls from “Rachel.” Then one day I got a call from “Tiffany” from card-holder services. I pressed the number to be transferred to a representative and demanded to know what they did to Rachel. Then after several months of Tiffany, “Rachel” called again. I again requested to speak to a representative and told them how happy I was that Rachel was back, and how I never trusted that hussy named “Tiffany.” They at least stopped calling me for a few months…
The idiots that regularly call just say they are from Visa and they can lower my rate to 0%. I asked one which card issuer they were working with and all he could say, in very broken English, was Visa. As I understand it, Visa doesn’t determine the rate, they are just the card transaction company and they get a fixed fee per card use. The issuers are the ones making the money from the interest rate.
When I’m in the mood to play, I’ll ask for their phone number in case we get disconnected. The caller ID is always a spoof number. If I get that, I’ll ask for their business name and address so I can be watching for any follow on correspondence. That is when they usually hang up.
Rachael used to be a frequent caller at our household. I guess when she left and Tiffany took over we fell out of favor. And now that Rachael is back, still no calls.
Funny cartoon, BTW.
I know Rachel well, although I only get to hear her on voice mail. Funny cartoon, funny comments. Thanks!
Actually… I got it five seconds after I posted it. But there’s a rule: once it’s live, it stays there, even it I get mocked for it.
In this case you weren’t mocked, you were considered lucky.
Well, I didn’t get it. I don’t follow the names of the spam callers.
Several times a month, I get a call claiming to be from a number in my area code, but out of a town I’ve never visited much less done business in. So I just let it go to voice mail (they never leave voice mail), and I presume they’re all from Card Services.
“Several times a month, I get a call claiming to be from a number in my area code, . . .”
Consider yourself lucky it’s only several times a month; I get at least 10 calls/day with the area code of my former Wisconsin residence (because I still have the same number, even tho I live in Florida). I now keep my phone on silent and check it every few hours for any calls that might not be spam. There are few enough o’ those.
Oh, the joy of living in a civilized country in which all forms of cold-calling (including robo-calls) are illegal. Over the past two years, I’ve received four or five of these calls, but only on my mobile number, and they were all from other countries (Switzerland and England). Adding the source number to the phone’s blacklist prevents any repeats from the same source.
Once upon a time, there was a federal list you could put your phone number on and no unsolicited calls were NOT allowed to that number. I know we were on that list; don’t know what happened to that concept. Maybe, with cell phones, the whole idea collapsed.
The idea of “opting out” of advertising just doesn’t work, because it shifts the burden of work to those who do not want to be bothered, rather than to the idiots doing the bothering. The same is true for the current situation for data privacy and Internet ads. If you want to tell Google to stop collecting your data, you have to let them set a third-party cookie on your system. However, if those are enabled, then every other disreputable advertiser can store whatever they want on your system.
Andréa: The Do Not Call registry is still there, and it still works. The problem is that scammers have learned how to hide the number they’re calling from, leaving consumers no way to accurately report them. It’s illegal, and the FTC shuts them down if they can find them, but they’ve become very hard to track.
If you really want to stop the robocalls, try NoMoRobo.
“If you really want to stop the robocalls, try NoMoRobo.”
I have a dumPhone, so can’t put apps on it. I gave Hubby the info for his phone, tho. Thanks!
Andrea could also work in “Microsoft Support”, or the extended car warranty department, or the department of free trips you’ve just been selected for… anyway, it’s a step up from her old job as the international financial adviser for the Association of Nigerian Princes.
*I* could? Why would I? I LOATHE phone conversations with people I know, let alone those I don’t!
I used to tell the telemarketers, “I’ll be happy to listen. However, I charge $100 per phone call. If your next work is anything but “goodbye”, you are agreeing to these terms and will pay me $100 to listen to you.”
The reason it did anything at all was because it was so far off script they had no idea how to respond. I rarely heard anything but, “click” at the end.
I just never answer the phone live unless expecting a call. Almost none of the scammers leave a message. I also don’t have caller ID, so the number is irrelevant.
“If you really want to stop the robocalls, try NoMoRobo.”
If you have a landline from Comcast (and probably other companies) you can sign up for NoMoRobo for free. Your phone rings once for a robocall. It doesn’t take long before you ignore the phone until it rings twice.
“Once upon a time, there was a federal list you could put your phone number on and no unsolicited calls were NOT allowed to that number.”
That law still exists, but the call center in India doesn’t pay much attention to it.
Comics I Don't Understand 
He thinks he’s hitting on her, but in actuality, he’s opening up for a deluge of annoying calls about getting a credit card.
Oh, actually, not about getting a credit card, but a scam about lowering credit card bills: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2015/08/whats-deal-rachel-card-services-your-top-3-questions-answered
And you are the luckiest person in the world if you D U this.
“Rachel from Card Services” made about 13 gazillion phone calls. WAY more than “Tony from Microsoft” who just wanted to warn me that my computer might have a virus that Microsoft was monitoring.
Made me laugh out loud — and quite hardily at that!
I used to regularly get calls from “Rachel.” Then one day I got a call from “Tiffany” from card-holder services. I pressed the number to be transferred to a representative and demanded to know what they did to Rachel. Then after several months of Tiffany, “Rachel” called again. I again requested to speak to a representative and told them how happy I was that Rachel was back, and how I never trusted that hussy named “Tiffany.” They at least stopped calling me for a few months…
The idiots that regularly call just say they are from Visa and they can lower my rate to 0%. I asked one which card issuer they were working with and all he could say, in very broken English, was Visa. As I understand it, Visa doesn’t determine the rate, they are just the card transaction company and they get a fixed fee per card use. The issuers are the ones making the money from the interest rate.
When I’m in the mood to play, I’ll ask for their phone number in case we get disconnected. The caller ID is always a spoof number. If I get that, I’ll ask for their business name and address so I can be watching for any follow on correspondence. That is when they usually hang up.
Rachael used to be a frequent caller at our household. I guess when she left and Tiffany took over we fell out of favor. And now that Rachael is back, still no calls.
Funny cartoon, BTW.
I know Rachel well, although I only get to hear her on voice mail. Funny cartoon, funny comments. Thanks!
Actually… I got it five seconds after I posted it. But there’s a rule: once it’s live, it stays there, even it I get mocked for it.
In this case you weren’t mocked, you were considered lucky.
Well, I didn’t get it. I don’t follow the names of the spam callers.
Several times a month, I get a call claiming to be from a number in my area code, but out of a town I’ve never visited much less done business in. So I just let it go to voice mail (they never leave voice mail), and I presume they’re all from Card Services.
“Several times a month, I get a call claiming to be from a number in my area code, . . .”
Consider yourself lucky it’s only several times a month; I get at least 10 calls/day with the area code of my former Wisconsin residence (because I still have the same number, even tho I live in Florida). I now keep my phone on silent and check it every few hours for any calls that might not be spam. There are few enough o’ those.
https://www.gocomics.com/outofthegenepool/2002/09/08
Oh, the joy of living in a civilized country in which all forms of cold-calling (including robo-calls) are illegal. Over the past two years, I’ve received four or five of these calls, but only on my mobile number, and they were all from other countries (Switzerland and England). Adding the source number to the phone’s blacklist prevents any repeats from the same source.
Once upon a time, there was a federal list you could put your phone number on and no unsolicited calls were NOT allowed to that number. I know we were on that list; don’t know what happened to that concept. Maybe, with cell phones, the whole idea collapsed.
The idea of “opting out” of advertising just doesn’t work, because it shifts the burden of work to those who do not want to be bothered, rather than to the idiots doing the bothering. The same is true for the current situation for data privacy and Internet ads. If you want to tell Google to stop collecting your data, you have to let them set a third-party cookie on your system. However, if those are enabled, then every other disreputable advertiser can store whatever they want on your system.
Andréa: The Do Not Call registry is still there, and it still works. The problem is that scammers have learned how to hide the number they’re calling from, leaving consumers no way to accurately report them. It’s illegal, and the FTC shuts them down if they can find them, but they’ve become very hard to track.
If you really want to stop the robocalls, try NoMoRobo.
“If you really want to stop the robocalls, try NoMoRobo.”
I have a dumPhone, so can’t put apps on it. I gave Hubby the info for his phone, tho. Thanks!
Andrea could also work in “Microsoft Support”, or the extended car warranty department, or the department of free trips you’ve just been selected for… anyway, it’s a step up from her old job as the international financial adviser for the Association of Nigerian Princes.
*I* could? Why would I? I LOATHE phone conversations with people I know, let alone those I don’t!
I used to tell the telemarketers, “I’ll be happy to listen. However, I charge $100 per phone call. If your next work is anything but “goodbye”, you are agreeing to these terms and will pay me $100 to listen to you.”
The reason it did anything at all was because it was so far off script they had no idea how to respond. I rarely heard anything but, “click” at the end.
I just never answer the phone live unless expecting a call. Almost none of the scammers leave a message. I also don’t have caller ID, so the number is irrelevant.
“If you really want to stop the robocalls, try NoMoRobo.”
If you have a landline from Comcast (and probably other companies) you can sign up for NoMoRobo for free. Your phone rings once for a robocall. It doesn’t take long before you ignore the phone until it rings twice.
“Once upon a time, there was a federal list you could put your phone number on and no unsolicited calls were NOT allowed to that number.”
That law still exists, but the call center in India doesn’t pay much attention to it.