I received a phone call one april morning of 2009 from an unknown area code. Normally, I do not answer these types of phone calls. This day however, I answered, and it was a woman saying that I won a free trip through their company because I made a purchase with one of their marketing companies via my debit card.
I asked the normal precautious questions such as how did this happen, since I never signed up for this, and what is the catch. What will happen from here? She told me a little more about the program and then directed me to another gentleman that was supposed to be giving me a password that I could use if I were to call back to cancel my free trial. He read me my routing number to my bank, so I assumed that the call was legit and that it was ok to give him my account number. I had planned on canceling when i got the package, for I just wanted the free trip that I was told about over the phone.
About a week later I received am envelope in the mail from this company. I opened it, and read how much would be charged to my account each month after the free trial, and it did not seem like something that I wanted to be a member of, so i attempted to call both numbers that I was given during the phone call and in the package I received. Both had a man speaking in a recording about busy representatives yet I never got through to one.
The fishy part to me is the fact that their hours are only mon-fri 10 am to 5pm. When normally places of this nature are open 24/7. Now I am afraid that random masses of money will end up missing from my account, when I do not make that much to begin with.
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