i got a text at 7:30 this morning from 845-405-8130. said i won a $1000 gift card from bestbuy. from what i see this is a scam so i wont be going to the website.
I receive same text with my full first name from 707-401-7570, saying I won $1000 Best Buy gift card! That is NorthBay San Francisco area code -- said to reply to pricepickupcenter.com! My Norton Site Safety software says that it is an OK website no treats - but I'm NOT going to go to it to find out! But looking further at Norton it looks to have a virus! Same question as all of the above people how did they get my full first name! Called # back and it was a 'free texting' service! Beware! :))
I received the same text this morning at 8:51 from 401-764-4502. What has me worried is that they spelled my name right and the spelling of my name is not common. I'm wondering if everyone who's receiving this message has the same phone carrier.......
Does everyone have a BB reward card? I bet that's how they got our info. How else would they know our names?? I notice the prizepickupcenter domain seems to be shut down too. It wasn't this morning.
There is no website. I did some research on this and noticed this bunch are using numbers from all across the country. My text message came from a phone number, +17326408118, in New Jersey. I know no one in New Jersey.
What really has me is that they know my name, which I don't know how they got. See this is my business cell phone, and the only way to associate my name with this number is to have been a client of mine (or one of my suppliers). So how did this bunch get my name.
BTW on their website, as I said I did some research, they don't have one. Sure they have a domain registered with Godaddy but they don't have a website. I wanted to get enough information incase I wanted to go to the cops for any reason. So I tried their website, all I got was Server Not Found (or the connection times out). Which is usually the case when there is no website.
@java I don't have a Best Buy reward card, never had one ever either. The only reward card I currently have is one for Borders bookstore. Used to have one for Barnes and Nobles but I didn't renew it, it expired at least 5 years ago.