Dec 22, 2011
I received a call from 213-289-9000 today (21Dec11) identified as from Los Angeles, which was a survey with political questions and I was to use a touch tone response, as follows: press 1 through 5 to respond to question (with 1 meaning strongly disagree and 5 strongly agree). The first three questions asked if I agreed with the Democratic House and Senate members votes on recent legislation. My responses were 1, 1, and 1. Somehow, after I punched 1 several times on the 3rd question, I was disconnected. I called the number above and received a female's voice (with British accent) asking for my "group number" to be punched in and I was unable to get past this initial screening statement.
My concern is that the ostensible questions regarding the survey were fake and that it is possible that my responses with pressing "1" after those questions really represented my authorizing some sort of charges that I would later receive on one of my billing statements in the future. For example, a charge on my telephone bill, bank account, etc. Although I did not give any info except to punch "1" three different times after their questions, I wonder if I could be authorizing a fraudulently induced charge.