They called today (9/22). Seemed fishy. Wanted to know about magazine subscriptions and billing. Probably a scam to get you to pay for mags. Did know our address, probably from a list.
Could hear man in the background telling the woman what to say, and a kid in the background. Hope they get an honest job and quit bugging people; they aren't going to make much $$ with their lame scam. Would make more at McDonald's.
A lady called saying something about a magazine subscription, I stopped her and asked her to remove my number from her list and she said "Well I would like for you to stop giving your number out!" in a very offensive tone. I told her goodbye and hung up.
This woman called saying that they had a Visa card on file for me and she asked if I was receiving my magazines and it sounded very fishy. Her supervisor came on the phone and was very unprofessional. I told him I get about 30 free magazines so I was not sure which one he was referring to and he was shocked and asked me how that was possible, so I started listing the ways one can acquire free magazines on the internet and he hung up on me.
This # called me today 3/30/12, saying that because I made a purchase with either Walmart, Target or Best Buy, that I would receive a $100 gift card to use at either of these 3 places. Thick Indian accent, told me to receive this 'free' $100 card he would need my credit card # and I would have to pay small shipping fee. I'm no fool. I politely refused and he yelled at me. I hung up.
They are from India. The Legal Indians have purchased thousands of blocks of numbers from Verizon, Sprint, etc. The Indians have lots of info on us. Katie Couric did a special and even sent people to India and found the call centers. A boss came out and closed the big door and said In English, "No, this is not a call center." You could clearly see all the people on phones. Katie then had people chasing the Legal Indians here in our country, some from very beautiful areas throughout the country, and they were running away. These people were like 45 or 50 years old too. The Indians get money from you from your credit cards numbers, saying you owe more than you do, etc., etc. The Indians will take any amount of money from us that they can get, such as, 100, 1000. Katie had several scammed people on the air, some quite elderly. I refuse to purchase anything made in India now. They call all the time from every state in our country, and they are actually in India. These crazy Indians drive me insane with their calls.
Got a call from this number this evening. Fell for the fun answering machine message which tricks them into thinking they are talking to someone... He asked for me by name but by then, I'd already looked this number up online and knew I didn't want to talk to them. No idea what they wanted.