I won $5000!!!!!

Hmmmm, this is interesting. While the request for your bank account number is highly suspect, the acquisition of your unlisted number sounds like a ploy often used by telemarketers.

Shirley, were you in the mall recently, saw some kind of sweepstakes right smack in the middle of the mall where you could enter to win the car on display? That's what this is riminiscent of. When you enter to win this vehicle, you are asked to provide your phone number! Did you enter any drawings, Shirley?

This window treatment company my brother used to work for used that mathod to get leads, people entering to win the car, and they employed telemarketing to get people's business, or try to anyway. I can't understand how deluded a company could be to still think that telemarketing works. It is crap!

The drawings held for cars in the mall may be suspicious as well. Mall managers don't always question these things. As long as the person entering the car pays the fee, who knows if it's even a legitimate company? It could be that some charlatan cleaned up his own car, parked it in the mall with a sweepstakes entry booth, and is using this to steal from people!

Everybody, I know you will, but please be careful!

Scam city Shirley! When it sounds to good to be true, then it is. Asking for a checking account number to deposit funds, huge red flag. They wanted your account number to drain your account, not place money in it. I would report this to the Attorney General and the FTC and make them aware that there is a scam going on.

Golden Rule - If you did not enter anything then you have not won anything.

Next time tell them to send you a check but don't give out your address as they would have that if you validly won something.

Lot of scams out there. I got the one a few times via e-mail where some foreign multi-millionair from Africa or SoutAmerica needs a checking account to deposite a few million in and I get to keep 200K for my trouble.

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I've had that call before too, Shirley. If it was legit, they could mail it.

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Oops, forgot to log in...That was me right above, Shirley.

Hi Jessi!! I knew that was you...LOL you keep doing that....
Hey anyone seen Mary??? I hope I didn't make her mad about the whole 'orkin man' and 'joes apartment' bug thing. We were just teasing and having a little fun!! where is she??? anyone seen her lately? I emailed her but haven't gotten a response back. I hope shes okay. shirley

Don't sweat it Shirley! I'm pretty sure Mary knows you were just joshing around about her avatar. She could be just busy! I know I have been lately! This new job is not what I thought it would be. It's 50 hours a week of on-foot lead gathering and telemarketing. Because of this, I'm falling behind in school because I get home too late to study! Not good! So I'm back to square one in the job search. I'll keep everyone posted on that in the woo-hoo interesting info topic.

Maybe she's at Walmart buying ant traps? :) **kidding**

I haven't seen her around today...Maybe it's just a busy day for her? I know I had "one of those days" today myself at work..I think every crazy person in Columbus came into my store today...lol

Shirley, forgive me on my earlier post if it seems to imply some naivete on your part. I know you're not stupid, I was just trying to find an answer for you as to how they would find your private phone number.

Oh thats fine Ari, I didn't take it that way at all. I knew it was a scam and the first thing I said to my daughter is, its a scam. I wanted to post it here as a topic of discussion for those that maybe haven't heard of this and might 'fall' for it if they get the call and don't know any better. its all good! :wink:

I got one almost exactly like that some time ago. I had quite a bit of fun with them, on their dime. :wink: When he finally got around to asking me for my checking account number, I asked him just how stupid he really thought I was. :lol:

I think if she calls back on monday like she said she was, and she askes for my bank account number, I'm going to tell her that its not neccessary, that she can just put the check in the mail! I mean, why else would they ONLY do it this way?

I'm glad that your daughter didn't know the important information to give out. It's sad that people try to scam us like this. I keep winning the UK lottery according to my e-mail. LOL! Hmm, imagine that when I live in the U.S. and never entered this false lottery. :o

These people just don't f'in get it! We're not idiots, and they're going to jail!

You should say, "No, I'm sorry I already gave my account number out to someone else today...Can I have yours?" lol

Or say that you don't have a bank account and you want a money order mailed to you! Then they'll give their snivelling objection that they can only send the money via direct deposit, then you've caught them with their pants down!

HA!! they called me back today and man did I PISS the lady off. First off, she could barely even speak english, she sounded Indian, as in from India. I let her go on and on with her speech and pitch. Then when she came to the part where she said she'd have to have my bank account. I said, 'now heres where I have a problem, I believe this is a scam because why do you have to have my bank account number'?? she went on to say that it was a transition from one back to another, from their bank to mine. I told her that if I won the money, she could just mail me the check. she was really getting mad and went on about it had to be done through the bank, and our united states government was recording our phone call so that no fraud was involved. I said, I'm not interested, this is a scam. she was still talking when I hung up in her ear.

Yeah, ok...like the US government has the time to monitor phone calls from a sweepstakes...lol