These guys called my fiance earlier today. I was at work and he was telling me about it. But, we had lost money previously due to a credit card scam. So, when I got home the people called again. (Well, my fiance is a lot nicer on the phone than I am.) Anyways, the guy was very pushing and trying to rush my fiance to make a decision and hand over the account information, so I got on the phone and asked for more information. He said something about the system that they have more or less "pings" the account to see if it is active or not. If it is active, then you can get a card. They said most of the ppl couldn't get a card if their credit was actually pulled. (Which I know is bullshit in our case because we found a great card...more information about this at the end.) So, I gave the phone back to my fiance and told him I don't like the fact that he has to give out his account information. He could make the decision, but luckily he knew that that meant he was going to hear my mouth for the rest of the night so he declined there offer. Also we were in front of the computer while we had him on the phone...at that point we asked for the website address again and he hurriedly got off the phone at that point. As soon as we hung up, I found this site. Thank goodness we did. Isn't this type of activity legal? I'm sure the FBI would like to hear about it and I'm going to find a way to report it.
If you can't get a credit card because of credit problems try Orchard Bank. They have secured cards that actually report to the 3 credit agencies and it shows up as a regular credit card. I've had an account with them for about 1 year now and it helped. Just a suggestion.