{"id":392,"date":"2012-11-01T18:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/goodbye-rachel-with-cardholder-services\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T18:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:45:24","slug":"goodbye-rachel-with-cardholder-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/goodbye-rachel-with-cardholder-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Rachel with Cardholder Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you have probably received phone calls from Rachel before, offering to lower your credit card bill.  It&#8217;s the most famous and perhaps the most irritating of all the phone scams.  &#8220;This is Rachel with Cardholder Services.  There is nothing wrong with your credit card&#8230;.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-fi-tn-ftc-robocalls-credit-card-services-20121101,0,3539764.story\">FTC has just announced<\/a> that they have halted operations of five companies that were behind the calls.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;Goodbye&#8221; is probably temporary only, as these not nice people quickly find other ways to perpetrate their scams.  <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the FTC has offered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-fi-tn-ftc-robocalls-challenge-prize-20121019,0,5995781.story\">$50,000 prize<\/a> for anyone who can come up with a method to stop these calls.  I hope someone wins the prize.<\/p>\n<p>My new Ooma system has community blocklists that will block many telemarketers, but Rachel usually spoofs a continually shifting Caller ID number, so that doesn&#8217;t stop this particular scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you have probably received phone calls from Rachel before, offering to lower your credit card bill. It&#8217;s the most famous and perhaps the most irritating of all the phone scams. &#8220;This is Rachel with Cardholder Services. There is nothing wrong with your credit card&#8230;.&#8221; Well, the FTC has just announced that they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}