Caller said I won a contest and to claim prize I had to agree to 6 free magazine subscriptions and a diamond watch in exchange for 1 weekly magazine subscription that would cost $3.95 a week. Caller never said what the company was or what the contest was that I had apparently won.
Caller said I won a contest and to claim prize. all I have to do is sign for a registered mail piece. I refused the magazine subscription, as i already have too many. Caller never said what the company was or what the contest was that I had apparently won. She said I was nominated by banks and I am in good credit card standings (I am not).
Caller asked for my husband. He was not in so caller asked when he would be home. I told her that I was his wife but she only wanted to talk to my husband. Call was from a land line in CA somewhere. I asked caller if it was a sales call & asked how did she get our unlisted#. She said that it was not a sales call but didn't answer about how she got our number. I asked again how she got our private number. She only anwsered that it "was not a sales call". When I asked again, she hung up. However, the same number called back in 30 secs. I let the answering machine pick up this time but no message was left. This was weird and I was fixing supper so I programmed the number into my call block function.
Our home number is on both of our State's No Call and the National DNC Registry. Our home# is listed with our bank's Customer Service option that they may NOT give it out to their merchants, ... who used to call us "on behalf of" our bank, . . . but the sales calls would be about life insurance or some other sales pitch. These types of calls were very frequent before I changed status with the bank. But the default is that your number is public to sell as long as you're a customer with the company or bank, etc. Sneaky.
This particular caller today had no business calling us so I call-blocked, as I said. She was unprofessional, not forth-coming. These types of phone schemes are ridiculous.