I received a call from these people but it was a Toronto number. They knew all my husbands information including his email address and claimed we filled out a ballot a tour local festival. I filled out a few and it taught me one thing never fill out ballots because chances are they're selling your information to a 3rd party and if it sounds to good to be true it probably is. I blocked the number on my cell and on my home phone. Idiots.
This number has been calling me a couple times a night and never leaves a voicemail. I'm blocking them after reading other people are having the same problem.
I actually went to the police to try and find out what is up. I finally got someone at this number on the phone and had my number removed from their list. I told them that I would file, 'criminal harassment charges', which is within ones right.
They got my info from the taste of lawrence. Some woman had a ballot to win a visa gift card. I had a feeling it was a scam. Everyone should call phone busters about these people harassing us even when we ask to be taken off the list.
I have had this type of call over 3 years. If I answer they explain it is the "gifting department' and that I have won a free prize. Each time I asked and where do I go. One time to Brampton, one time to Mississauga, this time to Bolton...I asked where they got my phone number, and they said...I had filled out a ballot at a show. I asked specifically which one...and they said Total Health (and I told her I had not been there for a couple of years).
She confirmed her company is telemarketer and I said...the other times I insisted they remove my number and asked her not to call again. We were both polite.
I have had similar calls for about 10 years (which also included the ship blowhorn...and offering me a free trip to Bahamas (which actually was "The Princess"...and only sailed from Florida to Bahamas...so I would have to pay my own flight from Canada to Florida and back. I ordered them to stop phoning (caller identifier had several calls a day).