Called and left no message on my answering machine. I added the area code/phone number to my blocked caller list.
Do yourselves a favor folks and get a call blocker. Sell a kidney and/or first-born if you must. :-) I used money that I might have otherwise contributed to annoying political parties and charities. After the constant calls, I decided to put the money to better use. The resulting absence of annoying calls is worth it.
Ok the scam is you won a cruise and all you have to do is pay the taxes. Then they try to get a card number. The taxes are as much as buying the cruise, AND, they have your card number now. If you are even stupid enough to fall for this and hope to get a cruise. It will be some timeshare scam.
For all those that hope to stop them, you will never find them. They use a robodialer in another country to hide their location and to "Scrub" the trail clean. Those dialer services reroute you to some boiler room in the US to speak to an "agent". Usually some unemployable loser that cannot get a real job so they have to work in a sweat shop.
If the place is found the company changes names and reopens at a new location dumping all the workers on the street to protect the con artist running the scams. The operators use the people that have no way to get a honest job due to criminal records, illegal aliens, or no job skills.
I had a friend that married one of these scumbags that had convinced her he was the CEO of a corporation. Now she has to work for free in his "business". After they got married she learned of his extensive criminal record. Now they hide from the law and her life is ruined.
His "Company" was sitting in their apartment, taking relayed phone calls, to get peoples credit card information to sell.
This is the new form of slavery.