I was called by a woman, Sylvia, and she said that I recently did a servey for which I would get a $10, - reward card. And also $100, - in gas and $50, - in credit for the Waka-website if we would walk through the Waka-website.
Now I did take a serey not so long ago for Walmart after buying my pots/pans there and I assumed it had to do with that.
So I decide to go with it and let her walk me through the website.
At first, when I directly punched in www.wakanetwork.com my Google Crome indicator said that there was some bad software trying to enter my information.
When I told her what I saw (I thought I was doing something wrong, I wasn't I realise now, Google Crome was very accurate), she told me to go to Google and punch in Wakanetwork.com in the white line and then go to the first link that comes up.
For some reason it works then, I got taken to the Wakanetwork.com website without any problems and she walks me through it.
I paid $2,98 with my Bank of America Visa debitcard (I do not have a lot of money in that account fortunately).
I felt a bit weird after this phonecall. The woman kept saying she was in training when I had a question, which made me more patient than I would have been, if I would have read the scam alerts via Google first.
She said that in about 12 to 15 minutes after the phonecall I would receive an email with a button that I should click to receive the gift cards in my paper mail box.
When I asked her (several times) how many days it would cost before it arrives in my regular mailbox, the line got crackly, her voice dissappeared, she appologised several times for being a trainee, kept giving me no answer and kept saying that an email would arrive in about 15 minutes and eventually they hung up.
I am Dutch originally and live in the States since a month or 3,5 and applying for my permanent residency is very expensive, so I could use the extra help in gas and other savings.
I am not used to this kind of scam things, it doesn't happen in the Netherlands the way it does here.
I would like to know if I got myself into deep trouble now and if I should contact my bank?
Should I do something with my computer now?
Should I change my email address?
They have my card number, name, security code, address, EVERYTHING and even though there is not much money on it (about $25.00), I wonder if this can cause me trouble?
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