I just received the same phone call, my agents name was Cheryl, and I was told I had one the basic prize's and was being entered into the grand prize drawing. I too called my credit card company and they had never heard of this company either. I ignored the second call.
I had a call from Hearst Inc. today. Actually, I've been receiving calls for the last month from them. I don't answer calls from people I don't know. Today, I decided to type in the company name and phone number and found this board. Magizines???
Here in Michigan we have a law about UNLISTED numbers. This company uses a robo caller program that has been calling my number. BIG MISTAKE. I called the number back and talked to someone who told me she is a supervisor. She wanted to know if I had talked to anyone from the company when they called. She tried to claim that maybe this was a miss-dial.
I told her that I know how these boiler rooms work and that she was using a robo program and that here in Michigan, we had laws that protect people who pay EXTRA for a private UNPUBLISHED phone number. She hung up on me.
If I receive another phone call from this company, here's what I'm going to do.
I will play along with the dummy on the phone, (Keep in mind, they get paid by the subscription) I will order everything they offer, and then when they go for the close on the deal, I will tell this pathetic California parasite that all the information I just gave them is FALSE! Maybe they should think about getting a REAL JOB.
they called for my room mate, and I sat the phone down to holler for him to pick up his phone, by the time I got back to where I laid my phone down, I heard her saying to roomie how he won something and I laughed and she tell him to ask his wife to hang up the other line and why was I so nosey....I say, I was about to hang up when I heard you try to scam my roomie and then she got nasty and so did I telling her that it was my house and I pay the bills and I can screen anybody's calls and we ended in shouting match to where she hung up.....half hour later another woman calling from same number, asked for roomie and I said he didn't live here anymore and the lady says, "you are a true [***], aren't you?"........I laughed and said yes and then I said bite me and hung up...............lol