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DALLAS, TX - SOUTHWESTERN BELL
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Annoyed -
05-16-2014
Received a poor quality call from a man with a thick Indian accent saying I had won my choice of one of two trips departing from either Miami or Los Angeles. He called my cell phone claiming that I had filled out a contest form at a shopping mall in my hometown at Christmastime. He said, "It was a long time ago, so you probably don't remember filling out this form." He was able to name my hometown - which would have been the best guess from my phone's area code. He told me he couldn't tell me which shopping mall the form was filled out at - which I thought was fishy. He said the trip was for a couple and then defined a couple as "married or cohabit". I said you mean "cohabiting", and he said "yes that's right." I let him talk for awhile to see what the catch was. Eventually he wanted me to "verify the answers to questions I had given on the form." He said, "you have checked that you are a couple, is that correct? You have checked that one person in the couple is over thirty and below 70, is that correct? You have checked that your annual household income is over $60000. Is that correct?" I never answer the household income question on any form I fill out, so at this point I knew he was lying. I refused to answer the question and then asked him to tell me what my name is, which he couldn't do, claiming he only had partial information from the filled out forms. He claimed to be working for the company "Worldwide Travel". I'm pretty sure a legit company would have better phone service. And of any call center I've had to deal with that had Indian workers, they all were easier to understand than this guy. I asked to be transferred to his manager, which he said he would do, but I had to hang up and the manager would call me back in a couple minutes. That's fish too. A legit calling service should be able to transfer the call, not hang up and call you back by whichever of this scammer's friends he gets to call you back and pose as the manager.
Received a poor quality call from a man with a thick Indian accent saying I had won my choice of one of two trips departing from either Miami or Los Angeles. He called my cell phone claiming that I had filled out a contest form at a shopping mall in my hometown at Christmastime. He said, "It was a long time ago, so you probably don't remember filling out this form." He was able to name my hometown - which would have been the best guess from my phone's area code. He told me he couldn't tell me which shopping mall the form was filled out at - which I thought was fishy. He said the trip was for a couple and then defined a couple as "married or cohabit". I said you mean "cohabiting", and he said "yes that's right." I let him talk for awhile to see what the catch was. Eventually he wanted me to "verify the answers to questions I had given on the form." He said, "you have checked that you are a couple, is that correct? You have checked that one person in the couple is over thirty and below 70, is that correct? You have checked that your annual household income is over $60000. Is that correct?" I never answer the household income question on any form I fill out, so at this point I knew he was lying. I refused to answer the question and then asked him to tell me what my name is, which he couldn't do, claiming he only had partial information from the filled out forms. He claimed to be working for the company "Worldwide Travel". I'm pretty sure a legit company would have better phone service. And of any call center I've had to deal with that had Indian workers, they all were easier to understand than this guy. I asked to be transferred to his manager, which he said he would do, but I had to hang up and the manager would call me back in a couple minutes. That's fish too. A legit calling service should be able to transfer the call, not hang up and call you back by whichever of this scammer's friends he gets to call you back and pose as the manager.
Caller type: Scammer
Company: Worldwide Travel
Number: 972-994-6834
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