This is the rundown of the prank
1) Fix an appoint time to stop by at "Sundance Vacations"(Yes, I said it, these guys are in OakBrook, IL and all they do is this repeatedly) and claim the prize.
2) They might need a form of ID, and one hour of my time.
I call my best friend, my room mate, who used to sell vacations. Something tells me that few days ago while visting United Center he might've filled out my name. I give him the 411 of the whole phone call, he rolls down laughing. Yeah, he tells me that this is what he used to do.
The calling process of the telemarketing companies
1)They somehow get hold of your phone # and call you about you winning either a vacation for 3 days, or Lincoln Navigator or $50,000 (and if I'm lucky I'll be permitted in the second round for $80,000 draw later on Feb 1st).
2) They ask you to verify your information, your first name and last name and your phone number(By this time, the system confirms you are the person, with the phone #).
3) If you say Nay, or No or worse haggle or piss them off, they put your # in the list which can be shared with other telemarketers(UN-believable!).
4)If the person shows up upon confirmation to be there for an hour, as soon as you stop by in person the telemarketer gets $50.
So I call the lady back, and say I am not interested. She says, thank you and hangs up(in micro seconds) not allowing me to put a request for No-Call list. I call her again, and tell her (politely) Can you please put me in the No call list please? She gets my first and last name, and my phone number.
(Just for my own reference, and to warn you this happened at 6.37 PM (CST) with a caller at Sundance Vacations 1(800)309-6500 this line is added.)
Beware friends, and folks.
3 comments:
Thanks for the warning, glad you were not tricked.
Not at all I guess, The key is to try to build a rapport with the customer while at the same time not loosing focus on the point that you are trying to get across. Having a basic script to follow will help here. telemarketing companies
They just called my boyfriend and myself. One woman told my boyfriend we won a cruise. The woman that called me from a completely different # then what they called him on (800-309-6500), told me our name had been drawn from when we went to the Cincinnati Beer Fest. I told her I looked up the phone number, and it said it was this travel scam. She said their name is "Smart Travel". I told her what my boyfriend was telling me via Yahoo chat while he is at work. They gave him a confirmation # and said he won a cruise, the woman I talked to said EVERYONE that put their name in is getting a call with a confirmation number. She argued with me about what the other girls told my boyfriend and said it couldn't be true. So I asked her if she was trying to tell me my boyfriend was making up what they told him, and she said yes. That's when I lost it and said that I was done with their scam and hung up on her. If it was a legitimate company, they wouldn't be calling potential customers liars, worked in the customer service call center world for way too long to not know how they work.
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