Call came in and I did not look at caller ID. When I picked up a recording was already going to tell me they were calling about lowering interest rates on credit cards and to push a number to talk to someone. (This has happened before, so I played along. When the woman came on, a foreign accent made her almost unintelligible, but when she repeated herself she said that rates on MasterCard and Visa could be lowered. When I said, "I have 0% on mine; how can you help me?" She then said "You should have pushed number 2" and then hung up! After that I googled the caller ID and found several sites which reported this number as a "scammer's" number. Some said their caller ID showed the name of Diane Yentel, and finally there was a letter from "Diane". She said this was an old number she used to have but no longer had it. Poor Diane, the victim of "the canceled phone number given to a scammer".
The phone companies ought to let a relinquished number lie dormant for a while before giving it out again. But I guess numbers are scarce and there is money to be made!
Call came in and I did not look at caller ID. When I picked up a recording was already going to tell me they were calling about lowering interest rates on credit cards and to push a number to talk to someone. (This has happened before, so I played along. When the woman came on, a foreign accent made her almost unintelligible, but when she repeated herself she said that rates on MasterCard and Visa could be lowered. When I said, "I have 0% on mine; how can you help me?" She then said "You should have pushed number 2" and then hung up! After that I googled the caller ID and found several sites which reported this number as a "scammer's" number. Some said their caller ID showed the name of Diane Yentel, and finally there was a letter from "Diane". She said this was an old number she used to have but no longer had it. Poor Diane, the victim of "the canceled phone number given to a scammer".
The phone companies ought to let a relinquished number lie dormant for a while before giving it out again. But I guess numbers are scarce and there is money to be made!
Caller type: Telemarketer
Number: 202-459-7122