Received a call last night from this number with a recorded message saying that I won 2500 dollars towards an all expense paid trip for four to cancan Mexico. If that were true, then I would expect to be talking to a live person.
It is a scam, stating I won 2,500 in travel vouchers towards Cancun. I played along and pressed one. A woman came on saying all I had to do confirm my trip is have a credit card available. (Oh well that sounds reasonable!) I pretended to be confused about which website or magazine I entered my name into and asked if she could tell me. She said she could transfer me to a supervisor who could give me "all the details." Next woman comes on, starts the whole sell again. She asks my name, which I give "Todd" (hmm, but they should have had my name already, right?) She tells me she actually works in Cancun, and has been there for 9 months and will never come back.
I then ask her...so have you committed any felonies yet? She stutters..."I'm sorry, what?" Then I said, "If I told you that I actually work for the consumer protection division of the state attorney general's office, how quickly would you hang up?" Full disclosure: I do not work for the AG's office, thus why I qualified the sentence with the IF. The woman indignantly said she would not hang up and asked if I was still interested in the free money. Sure, I said, please provide me with your phone number and address where the consumer protection division can officially request information on your company and this promotion. She said she would transfer me to a supervisor. Cue the hold music...one minute later...CLICK. Apparently, nobody wanted to talk anymore.
Got a call from this number last night, not the first time either. Have all of my numbers on the DO NOT CALL LIST. From what I have read the telemarketers are supposed to check this list every 31 days and drop any numbers that are on this, funny my number is still on their list, I never answer if I don't know the number.
I love your response. I might borrow it next time I get one of these calls. I also am on the DNC list, but I believe these scammers get around it by affiliating with legitimate businesses. I rarely answer calls from unrecognized numbers, but I sometimes call them back during the wee hours of the a.m. They usually turn out to be robocalls. I then add them to my cell phone call block list, which aborts the calls. I wish the FCC or some other regulatory agency would require caller ID for all businesses.