Jul 21, 2008
Within the last month, I must have received 10 calls from this number. THey never leave messages. Well when they called today, I decided to pick it up to see who was trying so desperately to reach me. A woman with a VERY thick Indian accent said that she was from LifeLock, and that she got my information from the credit bureaus and that I had been charged between 500 and 700 dollars last year and that they wanted to refund the money back to me. She rattled off my mailing address, and asked for my visa card#. I told her that if they wanted to refund money to me and they obviously had my address that she should just send me a check. Then I went to the LifeLock site while I was still on the phone with her. I told her that I thought it was strange that a company whose purpose was to protect my identity was trying to get credit card informnation over the phone... I said that I needed to verify the phone number and company and that I would call her back and of course, she said she couldnt receive incoming phone calls. I hung up on her. When I did call the number, it's a Continuing Education number. WHen you call, it gives you the option to add yoursef to their do not call list or speak to someone regarding getting a degree online. When you accept that option, the line goes dead - no surprise there. I then called LifeLock and alerted them of this and they said that it was a ongoing scam, that they were aware of it and reporting it to the appropriate authorities.
I think it is SO disturbing that these folks actually take the time to contact people to try to scam them out of their money, and it's even more unfortunate that some people are so trusting that they will believe callers like this and give their personal info.
Be careful!