I got a voicemail yesterday afternoon from Linda Gibson, said she was television producer interested in doing a feature story on our organization for her program 'Insight into the Environment' to air on CNBC. I couldn't find this program on the CNBC website and finally found this posting. Thank you to all who have written in to warn of this scam and prevent me from wasting my time.
I just got a call from 561-826-0072 today, 6/22, and was referenced a Linda Gibbs, some producer of some NBC show. I also asked where they got my name from and was told "research." I asked them to vtext a number to my cell that I could call "Linda" back at and never heard back.
She is still up to her tricks. Took me about 30 seconds of research to find all sorts of information about her and the type of scam they are running. Also received a call from "Linda Gibbs" last night on my voice mail. Claimed to be a TV producer wanting to do a feature story on my recent DVD release (they are getting names from press release contacts). Claim to air it on CNBC and Fox News.
This time, claiming to be "business of Arts" director and sent me to a website that at first glance looked legitimate, but in viewing the source code, it was obviously a shell site that served no purpose other than to fool people into thinking they were a legit company. She's changed her contact phone number to 754-367-1196 (although the call itself came from 954-427-1802). Found other posts on blogs where she uses these same phone numbers but goes by a different name - Linda, followed by some last name that starts with "G". Uses different company names and TV show names to fit whatever your area of expertise happens to be.
Definitely a scam and glad I had the sense to do some research before calling her back.
Scam is how you described - time release pressure to sign a contract right away and fork over amount from 22 to 28K is what I'm finding. Once they get your money, in some cases they do make some amateur video - that never goes anywhere, except maybe on your shelf!
These people are shameless and unfortunately are enough trustful people out there that they can find as victims who have no idea that such evil hearts and minds exist, waiting to rip them off at every opportunity.
Anyway, the best way to fight them is to inform the public to be on the look out for this type of scam. Sad that nowadays you can't afford to blindly trust anybody that contacts you unsolicited. The majority are bold-faced liars.
Linda Gibson –TV Producer of the Arts and Music Show that airs on GAC and Entertainment called you to see about a feature story of The *** on her show. Please call her at 954-573-3036. She specifically asked for you.
Her Voice mail simply said Linda - producer. She hasn't called back, but glad a did a search for the above phone number, since I couldn't find her or the program she mentioned on any website.