I had a call from an american Norella Piliggi at Fulfillment International Corporation saying I'd also been one of 83 people picked for a dream cruise. She provide me with her employee number as well as name etc. As I enter a lot of competitions, it didn't seem as all wierd and the holiday details sounded great until she started telling me about promotion fees which I'd need to pay to get the $4083 per person holiday. As well as promotional fees, there'd also be port and departure tax.
Thankfully I decided there was no way I was handing over any credit card details to secure my holiday, and told her I would rather lose the holiday. She didn't sound very impressed, and when I told her I wouldn't hand over card details until I had written proof of who she was and what I'd won, she started reading out legal rules about how to secure holidays in this country, there was an obligation to provide details, and that the point of a credit card was to insure against any fraudulent happenings (obviously if I'd given permission I wouldn't be covered!).
Am very pleased to have ignored it, as I've now read the above - let's hope noone else gets called and reeled in to handing over money where there's no proof. Noone should have to pay for anything they've supposedly won!
Emma
Oxford
United Kingdom
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