This is really weird. I just had DirecTV installed at my home about a week ago. The DTV offer I took advantage of is the DTV Select package, which is $35 a month plus $7 a month for the upstairs bedroom. $42 a month for the first 12 months.
All of a sudden some guy pretending to be DirecTV claimed that he was going to lower my bill by half for the next 12 months. He had a foreign accent and he said I had to pay a year in advance and the discount was courtesy of Ebay, which was running a discount promotion.
No, but you can't pay with a credit card. Instead, you need to go out and buy a $250 Ebay gift card at CVS and call them back with the account number so you could get full credit. What a deal!
Of course, I had heard of this scam before, and once you give them the Ebay Gift Card number, you will never hear from them again.
What was scary about this call? They had ALL of my personal information, my private phone number, my address, my full name, the works. I have been called by scammers before but they usually call "blind" and had no information about me. Someone at DirecTV must be selling private information to these scammers, and that is scary. It is also good that I have a call blocker application on my cell phone, as the guy decided to harass me with several follow up calls after I told him to bug off.
All of a sudden some guy pretending to be DirecTV claimed that he was going to lower my bill by half for the next 12 months. He had a foreign accent and he said I had to pay a year in advance and the discount was courtesy of Ebay, which was running a discount promotion.
No, but you can't pay with a credit card. Instead, you need to go out and buy a $250 Ebay gift card at CVS and call them back with the account number so you could get full credit. What a deal!
Of course, I had heard of this scam before, and once you give them the Ebay Gift Card number, you will never hear from them again.
What was scary about this call? They had ALL of my personal information, my private phone number, my address, my full name, the works. I have been called by scammers before but they usually call "blind" and had no information about me. Someone at DirecTV must be selling private information to these scammers, and that is scary. It is also good that I have a call blocker application on my cell phone, as the guy decided to harass me with several follow up calls after I told him to bug off.
