One of the disadvantages of teleworking (and now retirement) is being home during the day, and having to deal with Rachel from Credit Card Services. I don't know if you've been afflicted with this wench, but... she always calls from a spoofed phone number, which changes every couple of weeks or so, and she starts off with this computer monologue about how she's calling because she's worried about one of my credit cards (never states which one) and how she can get me a much better deal, yada yada yada. I've tried everything I can to get rid of her - I'm on the do not call list, I've tried asking to be taken off their list, I've tried asking to speak to their supervisor (they hang up on me at that point, usually), I've even changed my phone number, which usually gets me a couple of months of respite before she finds me again. She calls once or twice a week, usually when I'm trying to nap or in the bathroom...
She's now been joined by her boyfriend, Peter from Microsoft Computer Services (with a suspiciously thick foreign accent), who calls 2 or 3 times a week (also from a spoofed number) to tell me what a stupid girl I am and how my computer is about to blow up unless I follow his specific instructions. Mind you, he doesn't have a clue even what operating system I'm running, but...
My home phone is practically unusable now - the only calls I get are from family, these jerks, and polling companies (and the polling companies tend to assume I'm a Republican, for some reason.) There can't be that many people falling for these scams, can there? I mean, yes, I'm sure it's a low-overhead operation, but at some point, they've got to run out of suckers - how are they keeping this going? Where is the money coming from? And how can I take them out? I've tried the FCC, but that's pretty much throwing info down a well...
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