Please be careful!
Today I received a magazine that I did not order.
A lovely fashion one from a famous company that has been around for many years, decades, perhaps a century.
And while trying hard to recall if without thought I could have ordered it, I came up blank and so I Googled the well known mags toll free and gave them a call.
The reason I am not mentioning their name is because they are totally innocent of this and I would not want them mistaken for the perpetrators of the scam.
I went about it this way, not trying to be offensive, and I asked after I took my "account number" off of the address label if perhaps I was given the subscription as a gift and if so could she tell me who sent it to me.
And so the pleasant woman at the other end of the line said that it was NOT a gift but I was able to cancel it and I assured her I didn't need it these days since I am not too fashionable, she giggled, explaining my age and lifestyle did not need call for it any longer, besides this magazine had most women forty years my junior in it. And she said that one more will be sent but I would not be charged. Then I asked if she could check and see how this happened and who was responsible. She said the company was, SubDataPro, one word, and their toll free number was 1-877-438-4338, and so I thanked her, hung up, and called the guilty party.
The number appeared to be a qualified dead end.
In the respect that no people answered it and that it is a loop that says they are busy helping other people and that we should leave a message and they would call back.
That sounded iffy to me after waiting a while I decided to Google them...AND OH MY what I saw did concern me; pages and pages of complaints and horror stories about them SDP.
Apparently, all over the country they have been scamming people with getting their so-called innocuous info, like home address and phone number and using it to get money orders and other infiltrations of your personal data.
So I called our bank to notify them about this company and found that our accounts were still secure.
But they made a notation and recommended that I call the Federal Trade Commission and gave me their toll free number, and so I did.
I said I did not have anything definitive happening thankfully, except the unsolicited magazine sent to me, but maybe, perhaps they should take a look at this particular company and see what I am seeing online about others scammed too; not only fake magazine subscriptions but accessing monies as well as using your collected information to acquire more financial benefits to themselves with your name and address and reputation on the line. The FTC took my info to call me back once they investigated and gave me a reference number.
Now all of you who read this on a regular basis know that I am pretty savvy and know enough not to give out personal info, and the best I can recall is that phone call I had gotten last week...A female called stating that one of the magazines I subscribe to that the subscription was up and I told her no it wasn't, since I pay for a year in the fall for all four of the ones I do get, $40 for all four.
You see, when the young woman was told I knew that wasn't right after she verified my address; as she was hanging up I heard what sounded like applause coming from the other end of the line, as if she was in one of those giant call centers with many others cheering her on...
Crazy, hmm?
And so I discounted it as I must be hearing things all wrong, and that was too crazy. All that was missing was the shout out of, "SUCKER"
Could be a connection or perhaps not...
Who knows... it is now in the hands of the proper authorities.
On that note of this was my day so how was yours..., allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of your to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
PS there was more actually a doctors appointment for a physical which I passed with flying colors except my triglycerides, fish oil was suggested and so now I am taking that with all my other vitamins and meds...Oh my doctor said that it was time for my eyes to be checked so I made that appointment too, with my sight history I felt it was a good idea as well... but will it ever end?
Today I received a magazine that I did not order.
A lovely fashion one from a famous company that has been around for many years, decades, perhaps a century.
And while trying hard to recall if without thought I could have ordered it, I came up blank and so I Googled the well known mags toll free and gave them a call.
The reason I am not mentioning their name is because they are totally innocent of this and I would not want them mistaken for the perpetrators of the scam.
I went about it this way, not trying to be offensive, and I asked after I took my "account number" off of the address label if perhaps I was given the subscription as a gift and if so could she tell me who sent it to me.
And so the pleasant woman at the other end of the line said that it was NOT a gift but I was able to cancel it and I assured her I didn't need it these days since I am not too fashionable, she giggled, explaining my age and lifestyle did not need call for it any longer, besides this magazine had most women forty years my junior in it. And she said that one more will be sent but I would not be charged. Then I asked if she could check and see how this happened and who was responsible. She said the company was, SubDataPro, one word, and their toll free number was 1-877-438-4338, and so I thanked her, hung up, and called the guilty party.
The number appeared to be a qualified dead end.
In the respect that no people answered it and that it is a loop that says they are busy helping other people and that we should leave a message and they would call back.
That sounded iffy to me after waiting a while I decided to Google them...AND OH MY what I saw did concern me; pages and pages of complaints and horror stories about them SDP.
Apparently, all over the country they have been scamming people with getting their so-called innocuous info, like home address and phone number and using it to get money orders and other infiltrations of your personal data.
So I called our bank to notify them about this company and found that our accounts were still secure.
But they made a notation and recommended that I call the Federal Trade Commission and gave me their toll free number, and so I did.
I said I did not have anything definitive happening thankfully, except the unsolicited magazine sent to me, but maybe, perhaps they should take a look at this particular company and see what I am seeing online about others scammed too; not only fake magazine subscriptions but accessing monies as well as using your collected information to acquire more financial benefits to themselves with your name and address and reputation on the line. The FTC took my info to call me back once they investigated and gave me a reference number.
Now all of you who read this on a regular basis know that I am pretty savvy and know enough not to give out personal info, and the best I can recall is that phone call I had gotten last week...A female called stating that one of the magazines I subscribe to that the subscription was up and I told her no it wasn't, since I pay for a year in the fall for all four of the ones I do get, $40 for all four.
You see, when the young woman was told I knew that wasn't right after she verified my address; as she was hanging up I heard what sounded like applause coming from the other end of the line, as if she was in one of those giant call centers with many others cheering her on...
Crazy, hmm?
And so I discounted it as I must be hearing things all wrong, and that was too crazy. All that was missing was the shout out of, "SUCKER"
Could be a connection or perhaps not...
Who knows... it is now in the hands of the proper authorities.
On that note of this was my day so how was yours..., allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of your to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
PS there was more actually a doctors appointment for a physical which I passed with flying colors except my triglycerides, fish oil was suggested and so now I am taking that with all my other vitamins and meds...Oh my doctor said that it was time for my eyes to be checked so I made that appointment too, with my sight history I felt it was a good idea as well... but will it ever end?
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