This was a legitimate call from the subscription department at the New York Times. My credit card number was recently stolen, so I had to cancel that card. I had forgotten that my NY Times subscription is automatically charged to my credit card, so I assume a payment didn't go through. The call I received had a terrible connection, and all I could hear was the word "credit card" before they gave up, but my phone showed the caller's number, so I Googled the number, found this Web site, and saw the comment that mentioned the NY Times. It's nice when a suspicious call turns out to be perfectly innocuous!
Just here to confirm that I just canceled my NYTimes delivery, and subsequently missed a call from this number. Glad I could just come here and find out what it was.
2nd time we've gotten a call from this number (I don't answer.) What I do find interesting though is that almost all the posts mention the NY Times. So if it's a scam, as one person suggested, then how are they getting the numbers of so many people who've recently cancelled their subscriptions?
We didn't pay by credit card for the weekend subscription we just cancelled (used good old-fashioned checks by U.S. mail instead), but in order to use the electronic version, you do have to give them a credit card #. Of course, we had called them to make this change, so we weren't responding to someone calling us, but given all the ID thefts recently, now I'm beginning to feel a little uneasy. The fact that someone is able to find out who's cancelled and then start calling those numbers, makes me wonder what other info they have access to.
Despite receiving and calling back at the above number for FOUR months in a row and asking that I be excluded from further calls no fewer that FOUR times, I still receive unsolicited calls from this number. For the last two months, I've been receiving almost daily junk email encouraging me to be a subscriber to The New York Times. Would someone please wake "Pinch" Sulzberger, Jr., and put a stop to all of this unsolicited email and phone call nonsense. If it doesn't stop and when I'm next in New York City, I will stand outside your building, all day, attempting to sell copies of National Review magazine at half the newsstand rate. CAPICE Pinch? ! On the second day, I plan to show up at your New Jersey phone center, scam the personal numbers of those who place these calls, and judiciously pester them with unsolicited phone calls to their home and or personal cell number. CAPICE Pinch? Your excessively aggressive and unwanted solicitations by email and phone are obnoxious in the extreme! Okay, Pinch, do you understand what to do and what not to do? Until I can get to New York, Pinch, I'll be praying to your dad Punch, hopeful that, if only existentially, he might somehow influence you to bring your obnoxious and aggressive subscription efforts to cease. If it does continue, I will prostrate myself in Jewish mortification for a full day.