Aug 5, 2010
I got a call from this number today. They had been calling for several weeks. It was a scam from a company telling me that I won a trip to Florida for 7 days, free rental car, even an additional 3 days in Daytona, all for "free" except a niggling little $249 per person registration fee, for a total of $498, but with that we could invite THREE MORE PEOPLE. Woohoo! I listened for a while, was given a useless employee number, was put off a few times when I asked for the name of the company, and then she told me it was Universal, which was to lead me to believe this was Universal Studios giving me my big prize that only costs $500. Every time I asked for her phone number she rushed to tell me this would be coming soon, and then transferred me to another woman who asked to "verify" my credit card expiration date of my visa "starting with 45" which all visas in Canada do. I actually gave them the expiration date before my brain clicked in (hey, I wanted my free trip!)
I told her I needed to call back when my reception was better and I had my wallet, and she kept repeating about how this was a standard policy blah blah blah and could I verify the number starting with 4... I asked her if she could shut up and stop reading from the script and give me a phone number, and she kept right on with it. I also asked her if she was retarded or if I had been transferred to a robot, and she told me to stop interrupting her and tell me the number. I told her that I was sorry she had to work for such a crappy company and to get a better job and hung up.
This is the same scam that comes up from this number on 800notes.com 813-374-0160
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-813-374-0160