Apr 19, 2013
WARNING -- SCAM, SCAM SCAM !!! --WARNING
Initial call from this number offered a "Senior Rate" for a subscription extension for a magazine that I no longer receive. The caller said his records showed that I should still be getting the magazine and asked how long ago the last issue arrived and I told him months ago. He indicated that he would report the problem.
Five minutes later the phone rang again from the same number, but this time with a caller ID of "Magazine House". A different called presented himself as a subscription manager. He verified that I was no longer receiving the magazine in question, asked if there was another magazine that I have been getting. I told him of another subscribed mag. and he offered a reduced "Sr Rate" for a 3-yr extension to that subscription. All I had to do was to verify with him the Credit Card number that they had on file beginning with X. I told him I would not give him my Credit Card number over the phone. He began to get irate with me and said he "would give me an 800 number to call and that I could give them the number, as I would then know who I was talking to, because 800 numbers had to be registered with the Better Business Bureau" As I questioned that he continued to get more and more irate and abusive, until I hung up on him.