Comments on: Be Wary of Unsolicited Phone Calls http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/be-wary-of-unsolicited-phone-calls.html personal finance blog with anecdotes, advice and commentary. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:29:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Lord http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/be-wary-of-unsolicited-phone-calls.html/comment-page-1#comment-257731 Lord Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:37:24 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=2778#comment-257731 How do you get their information when they refuse to give it up? Pretend you are interested but need to call them back? How do you get their information when they refuse to give it up? Pretend you are interested but need to call them back?

]]> By: mjukr http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/be-wary-of-unsolicited-phone-calls.html/comment-page-1#comment-257691 mjukr Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:25:17 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=2778#comment-257691 A lot of these calls come from companies that received your name by buying it as part of a list of contacts from a partner company. I once made the mistake of buying some stupid "as seen on TV" item and received many of these "your card number ending in XXXX" for a long time. Annoying, but not necessarily identity theft attempts. Hang up and monitor your credit report! A lot of these calls come from companies that received your name by buying it as part of a list of contacts from a partner company. I once made the mistake of buying some stupid “as seen on TV” item and received many of these “your card number ending in XXXX” for a long time. Annoying, but not necessarily identity theft attempts.

Hang up and monitor your credit report!

]]> By: Glenn Lasher http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/be-wary-of-unsolicited-phone-calls.html/comment-page-1#comment-257671 Glenn Lasher Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:59:48 +0000 http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/?p=2778#comment-257671 I recently received a call from a cardboard box giveaway (how's that for tying the stories together?) The folks in question did, indeed, want me to listen to a pitch for a timeshare, and all they needed was my credit card number (/me rolls eyes). After much discussion with them, and them trying all kinds of interesting ways to prove their identity (one was that they offered to send me an email while I waited, to which I asked if they knew how easy it was to get a domain, and told them that I knew), it was concluded that there was no way that we were going to move forward. It's just as well. I really didn't want to hear a timeshare pitch, regardless of what I might get in return. I recently received a call from a cardboard box giveaway (how’s that for tying the stories together?) The folks in question did, indeed, want me to listen to a pitch for a timeshare, and all they needed was my credit card number (/me rolls eyes). After much discussion with them, and them trying all kinds of interesting ways to prove their identity (one was that they offered to send me an email while I waited, to which I asked if they knew how easy it was to get a domain, and told them that I knew), it was concluded that there was no way that we were going to move forward.

It’s just as well. I really didn’t want to hear a timeshare pitch, regardless of what I might get in return.

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