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I have been getting calls that immediately start with, "Thank you for choosing Marriot Hotels!" for a couple years now. The message goes on to say how I am getting this great offer because I am a valued customer. On a couple occasions, I stayed on the line to get a human, they ask yes/no questions (are you over 28? do you have a valid credit card?). I just replied with questions of my own, and they immediately hung up. I can continue to ignore the calls, but they are always from a random local number and I get nearly twice as many of these calls than I get legitimate calls.
I did a search and found this has been around for a while and Marriot is aware:
http://news.marriott.com/2015/05/marriott-international-responds-to-continued-phone-scam-updated-oct-20-2015/
I have deliberated about posting, but I don't see the FCC [US Federal Communications Commission] as being able to act unless I can provide them something more than the spoofed phone number. Providing the number(s) probably won't help as they are spoofing the caller ID. I know that this is a long shot, but is there anything anyone can suggest beyond creating a spreadsheet of phone numbers, dates, and times to log these calls? Would that even be useful?
It seems that something is fundamentally broken with the current phone system, if this spoofing is even possible. But that is a side topic here, the real question is, what can I do, if anything, to get the data the FCC would need to shut this down?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @02:46PM (3 children)
You sound like kind of a dick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @03:34PM (1 child)
Ahhh, but this is the kind of dick I'd like to have on my side!
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday March 15 2017, @05:31PM
I think he posted about this before; it was good reading then, too, or whoever had done it wherever I read it.
(Also, it's "pursue", but we can let this minor transgression slide for otherwise being excellently documented! No one cited that yet so I figured I'll take the hit to help prevent future errors that pass spell check.)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Kromagv0 on Wednesday March 15 2017, @04:10PM
Good. Maybe if more people were dicks to companies like these society wouldn't have the problems with them we do. And yes I am proud of my ability to be a dick and will use it for good. Just ask any of my elected representatives (current or former), random dick cop I have had a run in with (only 2 of these), roving TSA agents, etc.
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