I see a few people have actually been scammed by this BS outfit. They continue to phone me every once in a while with their "press 9 to claim your prize" phony message. The best thing to do with these people is to press 9, and go along with it for a while, then start to ask questions. It wastes their time, and it demoralizes their employees.
Here are the fine people I've talked to so far:
Pam Employee # 535
Daniel Employee # 812
Brandon Demick Employee # 793
At least one of these calls ended with the Vacation Promotions person yelling at me, and hanging up on me (and me laughing for the rest of the afternoon)
I also talked to another person just now, but we never got to the stage about them telling me their name and employee number, as they have a new twist on their scam (as they do every time they call) that they are supporting the Children's Rights Foundation http://preventchildabusenow.org/
I started asking questions about this connection, and the woman's voice got waivery and she couldn't answer any of them, then she pretended to go get someone that knew, then hung up on me.
Bottom line, waste these people's time - if everyone they called wasted even 5 minutes of their time, they would give up. The reason they have the "press 9 to claim your prize" message is to setup a sucker filter - if everyone pressed 9, it wouldn't work anymore. They may stop calling.
I know a bit about this company from pestering their employees (and other ways that I won't go into) - they seem to solely call Canada (probably because their scam is illegal in the US, but because of Canada's lax laws, they get away with this crap here). Fight back, waste their time, ask the hard questions, come right out and tell them you think their offer is a scam, and ask them if pestering people all afternoon is the best job they can get. Eventually, if enough people did this, they would stop.
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