A strange phone call-what do you think of this?

I live in Germany. Day before yesterday I also had a telephone call like this. i hate these sort of calls.

Hello kalav56, A rupees 3000 pearl set for 599 only. Sounds like flight promotion, scratching for the code and buy this thing worth this much for only this much. Only thing you are not in the air, LOL. I will not be able to tolerate such spam calls.

i think you should notify the authorities of the number so that you save some innocent people pains by falling victim to these scam

Cheaters in another form! I too had received a phone call like this last year. The girl ( first hook) on the other end told me that they were randomly selecting some phone numbers to whom they had decided to give out free insurance. Only thing was to attend a meeting by the evening with your wife. I just denied the offer. They would try to persuade us when we were in person there. She showed surprise in her voice to why I was refusing a great offer?!

Hi kala - I feel so glad that we now have myLot to share our experiences and wisdom on. :) I am glad you did what you did. :) These marketing folks are such pests! :(

I received a lot mails say that I won lottery or something like that but they all are swindlers. Don't ever trust them!

They usually invite you to come for a presentation to accept this gift.As you go there they try to sell a holiday package or something with an exorbitant price tag and the name of the package is definitely going to be unheard of showing how cheaply they have estimated us,and showing their audacity of not caring us seeing through their fly by night attitude. I appreciate your stand on this Kala and I pity those gullible.

Unless you actually know the company and do business with them, I'd take caution. There are a lot of scams out there just looking for a way to get their hooks into you. I certainly wouldn't do it. [b]**AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~[/b]

I think that you were very wise to refuse that offer. It might be a scam so they could get your money off you. I remember a man from Malaysia was told he had won a very large prize. However to get it he had to make several purchases. He went ahead and spent lots of money and his prize wasn't worth much at all. In the scam you might have sent RS599 and not received anything at all. I like to be ex-directory and when I phone someone they don't find out my phone number. This is to cut down on those sorts of phone calls. By email many scams are sent. They are all about getting money off people. Well done for telling the caller no.

Hi Kala, Once we also received a call (telling that our telephone number is selected so and so) and they invited us for some presentation and give us address and name of the contact person. We almost ready to go and to know what they are doing but that time I was pregnant and I got some discomfort and I told my hubby that I can’t travel. But those people are keep on calling us and insisting us to visit them, finally I told that lady, I am not in a situation to visit (they preferred to visit both of us). So I don’t know what exactly they want to do by selecting our telephone number and inviting…. May be they want to do some promotions for their products. The offer of Rs. 3000/- for 599 is unbelievable and must be a trick.

I think scam, scam, scam....

Its a SCAM !! its getting very popular in India one of my friends also had the similar experience the guy on the phone asked to sent the money first ... dont know if any one will fall for such cheap tricks ....

it is a hoax. do not fall into these schemes. it is but right you refused.

now that you know its scam and fake promotion, just make sure you don't share your personal information like your credit card number or your address. These days there are plenty of phishing attacks going on and the new trend is with the help of cellular technology. I have a friend of mine who actually lost Rs. 3000 from his credit card similarly.

This is nothing but a sales scam. The so called pearlset usually does not cost more that a couple of hundred bucks. Usually these people get the phone numbers from some employees of the telephone company, and they make a call to all of those numbers. Otherwise as balasri has mentioned, they might have got the number from some of the so called resorts or holiday home promoters.

That's 2 Words that don't go well together in a conversation about "Winning" something...."winner" and "Payment"..(Unless,of Course,it's YOU that's the one receiving the payment!) Generally,if you have to pay for something You've WON,watch out... and there's another 2 mismatched words.."Gift" and "Bargain".. if it's a gift,it's something for nothing,not a Bargain..If it's a Bargain,it can't be a gift..

Until and unless you had registered in some online shopping sites with your details you wouldn't get such kinda calls.Some of these marketing guyz just pick up the telephone directory and start calling all the members...this is one way to sell their products atleast they do not have to knock each and every door in various localities. Good that you refused.great day.

It could be a genuine offer and there are ways to stop this spam by telling them that you will call them back and ask for their phone number and if you do not want to go ahead with the deal you could alert the consumer forum or some such organisation or even may be the police to track them through the phone number. I have not received such deals but several calls from banks, cellphone owners make their offers through telephone calls.

There are many phone fraud in our country. Besides situation you have mentioned,we often received call such as return vehicle purchase tax, provide mobilephone replenishing charges for free. Last month , i receivea a mail from yahoo it told me i will receive a new computer and 10thousand yuan. As one proverb says:there is no such thing as a free lunch .I think when we reveived such similar phones , we must think it over seriously.If necessary ,we must veryfy them to relavent department. To my mind ,despite we attention by ourselves , the government must take some steps to solve this serious problem. After all ,some old people or people who had little vell education can't identify the truth and fauth.

Most of us who have telephone and interest receive such calls and emails.They are all scam.I also received many and at the beginning and I was thrilled. I began to dream that I had become a millionaire overnight and also began plans as to how to spend such big amount. I started building castles in the air. Believe me I last balance of mind.The other aspect is they want to charge service and make some payment before delivering the amount.After sometime I began to reply saying that they can recover service charges from the amount I am eligible to receive.No reply.After wards the emails contained a provision that as per their rules no service charges can be deducted and asked me to send the service charges immediately.I noticed a Government notification that they are all scam and we should not send any money.I understand many people have lost money in such scam offers. I advise you not to believe such scam calls and scam emails. One more thing you should understand is why any one should select you for giving a gift.Our close friends and relatives also, many times, hesitate or think twice before making gift unless there is some benefit for them. Is it not?