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 rcvd a call today from a 310 area code saying that a was a finalist in a drawing for $25k, a mustang, a european trip or a room makeover, and she wanted to confirm my address... I did, which I figured was pretty harmless. Then she asked many more questions. My age, my occupation, annual income (so as to not cause undue burden with the expense of mustang registration). I asked how I was entered into the drawing and was told that either a major bank or credit card company would have entered me as a preferred customer - to reward my timely payments. Fishy cuz I am not all that timely, and there are usually privacy policies in effect. They not only wanted me to have an entry in the drawing, but free magazines. Titles were offered and I advised that I would have no interest whatsoever in magazines. The call ended on a pleasant enough note. Then a few minutes later, I rcvd a call with a voice recording that there was trouble processing my order and I needed to follow up with a representative - my order would be discounted as a result. I did not call back. Although I gave no financial info, I'm still a little freaked out having been subject to what is quite obviously a scam. This is new to me and I don't like the feeling.
I got the very much exact same beggining of the call, Do you live in Canada bud??I do but anyways , someone called and the number came up unknown, it was something sweepstakes , cant remember the 1st part , but he said that I had been entered into the final draw for $25,000. I enter all kinds of sports contests , so I went with it , he also knew me by name cause he asked for Billy, then he asked me my date of birth, so i told him, then all i got out of it was a bunch of rattled off credit cards and then he hung up on me. I was going along with him, he beter not be [***] with me by getting my DOB. Now i want to call him back but got no number too do so.
got this call today (7/27/12) from a woman (240) 336-0934 she claimed i was still in the running for "25,000 ford mustang of trip for 4 to australia" and i'm like aghh okay... she wanted to do a survey but the phone cut out, so luckily i googled this and its a scam... watch out guys!
Sitting at a desk and calling people for their card information in order to gain easy access to their money is not a living. My friend is currently dealing with the bs your "honest company" put her through but not everyone is as gullible. I have advised her to report this company and get a new card which is being done as I type. You should stand in line and get a real job, I can even respect drug dealers more than I can scammers and telemarketers. If I was as pathetic a sh*tbag as the people at your company I would have killed myself ages ago. The privileges of life are better appreciated when earned rather than taken, maybe onr day that will make sense.