http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745 Right here, in small town Tehachapi at 9am on a nice Saturday morning, I received a phone call and will relate it here for your information: ME:&quot;Hello.&quot; Canned voice recording, &quot;Are you aware that your Visa and Mastercard interest rates will be automatically increased by 17 or more percent within the next 30 days? Press 8 to talk to an operator about what you need to do to prevent this&quot;. ME: Pressing 8. Live voice: &quot;Please state your full name and credit card numbers so I can advise you accordingly&quot;. ME: &quot;Sure, please give me your full name and telephone number and I will call you back&quot;. Live voice: &quot;Certainly, do you have a pen handy?&quot; ME: &quot;At the ready, go ahead&quot;. Live Voice: CLICK!!!!! Need I say more? Jim Richards &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Right here, in small town Tehachapi at 9am on a nice Saturday morning, I received a phone call and will relate it here for your information: ME:&quot;Hello.&quot; Canned voice recording, &quot;Are you aware that your Visa and Mastercard interest rates will be automatically increased by 17 or more percent within the next 30 days? Press 8 to talk to an operator about what you need to do to prevent this&quot;. ME: Pressing 8. Live voice: &quot;Please state your full name and credit card numbers so I can advise you accordingly&quot;. ME: &quot;Sure, please give me your full name and telephone number and I will call you back&quot;. Live voice: &quot;Certainly, do you have a pen handy?&quot; ME: &quot;At the ready, go ahead&quot;. Live Voice: CLICK!!!!! Need I say more? Jim Richards &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; en-us <p>&nbsp;Another public service announcement by our one and only community activist jimr.<br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>Thank you</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224271 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224271 <p>&nbsp;Another public service announcement by our one and only community activist jimr.<br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>Thank you</p> <p>Wow I've had this exact call on two separate occasions in the last few months.  I never bothered pressing 8 though.  I always hung up figuring it was a marketing gimmick.  Thanks for showing just how much a scam it really is!</p> <br /> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224319 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224319 <p>Wow I've had this exact call on two separate occasions in the last few months.  I never bothered pressing 8 though.  I always hung up figuring it was a marketing gimmick.  Thanks for showing just how much a scam it really is!</p> <br /> <p> Yes, thanks for following through and reporting.  I usually just hang up, too.</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224383 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224383 <p> Yes, thanks for following through and reporting.  I usually just hang up, too.</p> <p>&nbsp;You guys are missing all the fun!!!!!&nbsp; What you do when you get telephone solicitors on the phone you lead them on for as long as you can.&nbsp; Give them fake card #'s and credit amounts.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tell them how much you appreciate them telling you about credit card interest rates and talk their ear off....and toward the end let them know they have been scammed--by you. Sometimes my kids give it away because they are laughing so hard in the background.</p> <p>I've gotten unsolicited phone calls in BVS from everything from replacement windows to carpet cleaning.&nbsp; I book an apt to a &quot;new address as I've just bought another house&quot; and moved and let them come out and try and find you.&nbsp;&nbsp; You need to scam the scammers.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224892 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224892 <p>&nbsp;You guys are missing all the fun!!!!!&nbsp; What you do when you get telephone solicitors on the phone you lead them on for as long as you can.&nbsp; Give them fake card #'s and credit amounts.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tell them how much you appreciate them telling you about credit card interest rates and talk their ear off....and toward the end let them know they have been scammed--by you. Sometimes my kids give it away because they are laughing so hard in the background.</p> <p>I've gotten unsolicited phone calls in BVS from everything from replacement windows to carpet cleaning.&nbsp; I book an apt to a &quot;new address as I've just bought another house&quot; and moved and let them come out and try and find you.&nbsp;&nbsp; You need to scam the scammers.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff">LOL awsmom...Sounds like alot of fun!! My&nbsp;voice sounds like a&nbsp;child's&nbsp;to some&nbsp;people, and it&nbsp;is alot of fun when someone&nbsp;calls the house and asks to speak to my&nbsp;mommy. I just tell them that she is&nbsp;in the shower with the next&nbsp;door neighbor's husband and she cannot come to the phone. The&nbsp;person on the other line hangs up&nbsp;really quickly...</span>&nbsp;</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224956 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/jimr/24745/#c_224956 <p><span style="color: #0000ff">LOL awsmom...Sounds like alot of fun!! My&nbsp;voice sounds like a&nbsp;child's&nbsp;to some&nbsp;people, and it&nbsp;is alot of fun when someone&nbsp;calls the house and asks to speak to my&nbsp;mommy. I just tell them that she is&nbsp;in the shower with the next&nbsp;door neighbor's husband and she cannot come to the phone. The&nbsp;person on the other line hangs up&nbsp;really quickly...</span>&nbsp;</p>