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JessCJ
March 27, 2010
Fraud!
First, I was receiving phone calls all hours of the day/night from different numbers I did not recognize: 978-570-2067, 603-214-3330, 603-214-3346 are the ones that called most frequently. The person on the other end of the phone had an obvious foreign accent each time and read everything as fast as possible. The phone call started with an introduction as if the caller was a representitive of the "Cash Rewards Program" of my MasterCard. She said that I would be receiving a$150 check in the mail as a token of "Thanks." Then she quickly skimmed through the list of "benefits" for a "shopper's discount program" and that she was trying to varify my address so she could send an information packet. After she started her speedy ready again, I heard "$3.95" and my ears pearked up. (Mind you this call was received after I was already asleep for the night). I asked her to repeat the section she read about the $3.95 and she started to get a bit frustrated with me because I kept messing up her recording of the conversation. So after she repeated it again, without slowing down, I was able to gather that I was being enrolled in this discount program unwillingly and that $3.95 is my charge that I would see on my MasterCard in the next 3 days for the trial of the program, after 30 days, I would see $29.95 a month on my account. Iinterjected once more and said that I did not want a charge on my card for any amount, nor did I want enrollment in some program that I am going to have to cancel. She informed me that I was already enrolled and she was just calling to varify my address (which was done at the begining of the call.) So, after I hung up, I called a friend to tell of my story and ask his advice and he suggested I call my bank and inform them. After attempting the calls (after hours for the banks.. so these scammers really know how to get you when you can't do anything until the morning!) I looked at all of my cards to see if any matched the one she read out to me. Then I noticed that was my debit card and that it wasn't even my mastercard at all! And Thank GOD but that was the card I had canceled several months prior after I lost it in my car for a few days. So, I know that well the card they called about isn't the one that is linked to my account any longer so I dont have to worry so much about them making any transactions tonight, I just dont want to end up in collections because of a scam company! I called both of my banks and informed them of the situation and gave them some information so they know what to look for on other's accounts as well. I plugged the numbers in on Google and found that they have been associated with other scams as well. Once a website is linked to any one of these numbers or the others online associated with a scam, I think the website should be flagged and that the scamming company automatically terminate all of their phony accounts with which they make people feel they are benefiting.
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