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In article <4g0ens$i2d@maureen.teleport.com> clinto@teleport.com (Clinton Wittstruck) writes:
>I got a call last night, from someone who said they were offering me a
>free trial of various kinds of educational, games and desktop publishing
>software. He says if I didn't like the software, I could keep it at no
>cost. He said all he needed was my address and credit card number and
>expiration date. 

No idea if this is the same deal as a customer of mine told me this 
morning....Seems they sell you a disk for 14.95 and if you don't call back to 
stop them they then charge club dues of 49.95<they didn't mention this to him 
when they called him initially>. He wasn't too happy with the deal. Although 
this company was semi legit in that he'd purchased SW from them earlier which 
was how they got his name. Seems he won't be filling out any more registration 
cards giving away his name/phone #.

One thing he did do was request their name/phone/etc and checked to see that 
such a company existed and then called to see that the person who called 
actually worked for that company...all that and still slipped in the "club 
dues" on him.


Jeff

Jeff Freeman                 1-800-GO-PORCH Toll-Free    VISA/Mastercard
Front Porch Computers        1-706-695-1888 <voice>      AMEX/Diners Club
HW/SW/Electronics/Bus.equipt.Toll free Order/Support lines in 24 countries!
We handle over 35,000 computer/business related items! We ship Worldwide!

>I advise everyone else to be wary of such offers.

Sounds like damn good advice. The caller should subscribe to 
alt.consumer.ripoff

Fred W.

On 15 Feb 1996 23:14:04 GMT, clinto@teleport.com (Clinton Wittstruck) wrote:

>When I told him I didn't feel comfortable giving out my credit card number
>over the phone and asked hime to send me something in the mail, he hung
>up on me.
>
>I think it was a scam to get my credit information in order to make
>fraudulent charges. 

Never Ever give a credit card number to someone over the phone unless you have
initiated the call and know whom you are talking with.




djl
djl@a.crl.com

I have two favorite responses for phone solicitors depending where I am.  
If they call me at home, I tell them I am very busy and if they give me 
THEIR home number I will be sure to call them back when I finish with 
what I am doing.  If they call me at work, then I tell them I am not the 
person in charge of purchasing, but if they leave me their name and phone 
number I will have the purchasing agent call them upon their arrival.  In 
both cases you can about imagine how quickly the call ends from there.

--
Mitch Duszynski,      Ski*Net Enterprises