I get a call at 8:00 am this morning and an operator tells me that I was 'chosen' for a $1000 shopping spree that I could use online or in stores, and all I had to do was pay $3.59 a week for this one magazine and I would be getting another 4 free of my choice free. I was skeptical at first, and with good reason, the 'supervisor' then gets on the phone and assures me that they have been in business for 35 years and do this kind of thing all the time. Naturally they require the first payment up-front and want me to relay my credit card number and other information over the phone. I told them I wasn't comfortable doing that, he tried to re-assure me that everything gets shredded after I relay it and that they don't even have pens in the office... Right. I ask for the company's information and I get a phone number, some corporate ID (after reading similar complaints, I would bet all info. Is bogus), and a company name. So I hop onto Google and search the company name. Low and behold, the top hits are from other people like me who have been seduced with the same promises and later found out it was all a sham. While I still have the 'supervisor' on the phone, and am reading similar complaints, I tell him that all of this sounds too good to be true, and that it probably is. I then tell him that I don't want to take part in anything they were offering, so I guess I'll see if I hear back from them. The only advice I can give others is that unless YOU'RE the one calling to purchase merchandise from a company, NEVER NEVER EVER give out your personal information over the phone. I was tempted with this scam, but am so glad I trusted my better judgment.
I want to thank the others out there who have taken the time to report on this matter, and I hope mine will deter others from falling into this web of empty promises as well.
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