Aug 28, 2009
I was called on my mobile phone by an Indian-sounding person called Ronald who said that, because of my good Visa reward points, and because I had been selected from my location, I had won a free holiday for 4 people to Orlando. He said that it included free entry to four attractions in Florida.
He said that he wanted to ask me questions to verify my identity, but I refused. I said I couldn't be sure that he was from the card company. He said that he was from a company called Fun2Orlando, and gave the website details as www.fun2orlando.com. He explained why it made business sense for them to be offering this holiday for free, and stressed that this holiday would normally be offered on the open market at about £8,000.
He offered to post the details to me, and wanted to check my current address. The address he gave me was 10 years out of date - I made my mobile phone ex-directory before I moved address. This is the main thing that didn't stack up. Why - if I am being called because my Visa reward points are so good - was I being called at an address that my current card providers wouldn't even know about? This and the caller's manner, which had a lot of bravado and argumentation about it, which one wouldn't find in a genuine caller.
Finally, after wasting about ten to fifteen minutes of my time and my company's time, I put the phone down while he was still talking, having repeatedly tried to tell him politely that I wanted to end the call.
I searched on the internet for the phone number to verify that this was indeed a scam (after all, if you've just passed up an £8,000 holiday, you'd like to know it was for a good reason). The phone number is indeed a Florida phone number. However, I was very pleased to come to this site, and see that my suspicions were justified by what other people have written about Fun2Orlando.
During the call, I was on the verge of giving an email address or an address to send the details to, but I'm glad I didn't now. I didn't give one piece of information away, I'm glad to say, but it was very tempting.
As with the other people who've written about Fun2Orlando on this site, I would warn you not to have anything to do with them.
See also the comments that other people have left about 02033558797.