I was initally convinced that VISA had sold them my info, but the manager that I spoke to told me that they received the info from "usage" meaning that a third party, such as a hotel that I had stayed at, had sold them the information. It's hard to know how they get your number.
Since I've called, I've been phone spam free. Keep in mind that your information was given to them without your permission. The managers all seems quite nice, and if you want them to stop calling you, I recommend just calmly explaining your situation to them. I've had a lot of spam-type calls over the years, and none of them have hung up on me AFTER I've said "Hello? Hello? Oh, god, is this one of those stupid." She also blamed it on young, inexperienced employees, but I seriously doubt that this is the case. I called and explained my situation, and the manager (Roxanne?) apologized and claimed that a computer glitch had caused the repeated calling and hang-ups. When you call, they will answer with "Corporate", but the name of the company is allegedly "Platinum Rewards". If this is happening to you, first of all, I'm sorry.įortunately, someone at Who Called has done some sleuthing, and they discovered the number at which the company's managers can be reached.
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I wouldn't even be blogging about it, except it started happening to a couple of friends the other day, so I thought I'd go ahead a post a little sum-sump'n on how to get them to stop. Go ahead and Google the phone number and you'll find all kinds of rants about it. I tried calling them back at the number appearing on my caller ID, but only got a busy signal. The computer waited for my hello, and would then connect to a person (I could hear them breathing) and fnally, they would hang up. And now they were calling at odd hours, in meetings. I had already rebuffed their unwelcome and unsolicited advances several times. I'm not sure if it was retaliation for sure, but it sure felt like it. When I would pick up, ready to give the telemarketer and earful about my number's presence on the Do Not Call list, they would hang up on me. At one point, I claimed not to have a VISA card at all, to which the rep responded "I don't care" and continued babbling from his script about all the rewards that I could earn, if I'd just keep listening to him babble.Ī couple of days later, I began receiving phone calls at the rate of four or five per day from 80. They couldn't tell me which VISA card they were talking about.
They inevitably claimed to be calling on behalf of VISA.
I waited patiently, and asked the telemarketer on the other end to tell me how they got my number. The first few times, when I answered the calls, there was that weird mechanical pause, the one that tells you that the computer is alerting the telemarketing rep that they've got a live one. Almost immediately after receiving my new VISA card in the mail, I began receiving calls from a number that showed up on my caller ID as 80.
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