Scam; fishing for your credit card information and personal info.
Got a call from them today. they said they got my info from my credit card/bank. the lady, Dawn, seemed abnormally ditsy and unintelligent. She was supposedly calling from Publisher's Headquarters. Did not have any sort of ID#, nor could she tell me her direct number or company's ph number. she said i had the chance to win $25,000.00, a truck, trip to hawaii, and something else. On top of that I get a free diamond watch, and 6 magazines. She said her manager would call me back right after. I asked her if this info was gonna be emailed to me and she said she had no idea about e-mailing. lol. They have called me 4 times in the past half hour...twice blocking their phone number to get me to answer. Pretty persistent for a company willing to give me $25,000.00 and a bunch of free stuff.
anywhos...knew it was a scam so i called all my credit card companies and banks to report this...of course my credit card/banks said they don't give out my information.
So don't answer this call...and definitely don't give any personal information.
Scam; fishing for your credit card information and personal info.
Got a call from them today. they said they got my info from my credit card/bank. the lady, Dawn, seemed abnormally ditsy and unintelligent. She was supposedly calling from Publisher's Headquarters. Did not have any sort of ID#, nor could she tell me her direct number or company's ph number. she said i had the chance to win $25,000.00, a truck, trip to hawaii, and something else. On top of that I get a free diamond watch, and 6 magazines. She said her manager would call me back right after. I asked her if this info was gonna be emailed to me and she said she had no idea about e-mailing. lol. They have called me 4 times in the past half hour...twice blocking their phone number to get me to answer. Pretty persistent for a company willing to give me $25,000.00 and a bunch of free stuff.
anywhos...knew it was a scam so i called all my credit card companies and banks to report this...of course my credit card/banks said they don't give out my information.
So don't answer this call...and definitely don't give any personal information.
i got this call too, telling me i would get a free watch and some magazines if i participated in a survey. she (clarissa) asked me where i work and my age (they can't do anything with that info so i told them). then she surprised me by stating my address, and i confirmed it. she didn't give me a chance to talk and said i would be mailed a diamond watch and a bunch of magazines. then she thanked me and said goodbye. then a minute later, i got another call from a guy asking me how the girl did when she called me and i said she was polite, and he said she's new so she might have been a little nervous. and then i asked to make sure that i'm not being charged anything yet, because i can't afford anything. then he said rudely "you can't afford $3? damnn" and i said "well i just don't know who you are and don't want to give you my card number" and then he hung up and never heard back.
DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR CARD NUMBER IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR MONEY
I recieved the same phone call today but I can say I fell for it like a dumbass, because in all honesty it sounded like a good deal on the magazines and the reps were super nice and even made small talk with me about their own children. The 'supervisor' called back about 10 mins later and explained that the magazine payment was for 2 months and that after I made the intial payment of 39.90 (which was on my bank statement online) I would be billed a couple months later for the same price and that my magazines all 8 of them would arrive in 6-8 wks and I got a tracking number for the so called sweepstakes that I was entered in (2011 ford mustang, trip to europe or 25,000 cash were the prizes) i didnt give her any confidential information and the card I paid for the magazines was a prepaid card that I will now throw away esp. after reading these posts.
Well this all sounds familiar. The number showed up UNKNOWN on my cell phone. She (brandi) said she was with publishers sweepstakes and I had been selected as a finalist for a 25,000$ drawing, since I'm such a "valued customer". My BS alarm started going off. I figured I'd play along for a little while, I had nothing else to do. I'll say this they have this crap worked down to a art. She knew my name and my address(like thats hard to get now days). Anyways I was going to receive a free diamond watch and 6 free magazine subscriptions, well 3 free the other for the low low price of 3.95 per week. I was hanging on for that inevitable moment when she would ask for my credit card #, but she did not. Amazing right? She instead told me today was here first day on the job and her supervisor would call me back to make sure she did well. I assured her I'd put in a good word for her. The poor girl is just trying to make an honest living, HAH! Eventually her "supervisor" did call back and gave me summary of the same thing she said. Then it came, the moment I'd waited for. He ask me "so what is the exp. date on that credit card sir"? click... thanks for playing. If these people call you come up with a good way to waste as much of their time as you can. They need to have their [***] kicked. Damn crooks.
Im not sure if its the same number but sounds familiar i recieved the call today saying im a valued customer ...blah blah blah their sending me a free watch and 6 magazines of my choice blah blah blah
for 48 months for 3.95 a week and i go through the schpeil then get another call back from a lady confirming everything and asked how the "NEW GUY" was lol then i started asking all the questions
she got p%ssed and said " Im just going to cancel the order i can tell by your smart [***] attitude that youre not interested and thank you so much for wasting my time" and hung up what a "B"lol whop really wasted whos time lol and to the people who run this scam ...Its called getting a REAL JOB.Actually work for your money. PS never give out personal info to a strangers SMART people usually dont