Heads Up On Another Phone Scam

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Gee these people sure can think of different ways to scam us. This scam might be more tempting for many people who are heavily in debt due to credit cards. Sometimes rather than resort to filing bankruptcy, many people will turn to a debt consolidation type organization to manage all their debts..this allows a person to pay a smaller amount for all those debts. Now many of these companies are legit..BUT ..as you can guess some aren't...and here is just one of those that isn't For sometime I kept getting a phone call from a place called Debt America...Now unless it's one of my friends calling I hardly pick up the phone and allow my answering machine pick up the message. And as you can guess I ignore calls from telemarketers and so forth. Well tonight I got another call from this place...and no I didn't pick up..but this time I took down the exact words of the message and made particular note of the phone number that one is supposed to call back..Here is the message that was left on my phone: "Hello. This is John Evans calling from Debt America. And this is my final attempt to reach you about assisting you in eliminating your credit card debt. Through our approved bailout program that just went into effect. Please call me back at 1-800-461-7054 so we can discuss how this program can assist you through these tough economic times, as this program will expire. Call me at 1-800-461-7054. Thanks." Okay the Sherlock Holmes in me decided to look up the number. Oh, and if you get messages from anyone you don't know..TAKE AND WRITE DOWN THE PHONE NUMBER...then type in that number in a search like google...no doubt you'll come up either with a real legit place but even then it could be a scammers place..or you'll come up with a listing of others who have complained about the very same number... One such place that is good to find out the legitimacy of a phone number is this website http://800notes.com/ [b](Warning This is NOT a Referral link but a link to this website to find out phone numbers and if they are scammers} [/b] In my particular case with that phone number I came up with a whole page of complainers about this phone number http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-461-7054 as one person posts there, this is probably a place to scam people in telling them their credit card numbers So just beware of this kind of thing. As I said many people might be desperate to settle debts and might fall for this crap. In fact, for now on, since I do get a lot of wacky messages I plan to look up the phone numbers of them all whenever I get calls from now on