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Originally Posted by Villages PL
A few months back I went to the Travel Expo at the Savannah Center. I decided to register for a drawing to win a free gift and I wasn't thinking that my name could be used as a lead for advertising. I'm usually very careful about not giving out my name for anything, but this time I let my guard down.
Eventually, the calls started coming in telling me I had won a free cruise. I said, "no" I wasn't interested in going on a cruise. But more calls kept coming in telling me I had won other trips. Perhaps they were for "time-share" condos or something. Not sure. Well, I think I learned my lesson. No more entering drawings.
I get enough calls as it is. I got 2 calls yesterday: One was for widow washing and one was for an air conditioner check-up offer.
P.S. I hope the thread police don't arrest me for not posting a more interesting thread. :-)
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What happened?? You're not a foodie anymore? Good to expand your horizons.
I "hear you" on these nuisance telephone calls. Every single day for about two months now (and we are on the Federal No Call List) a recorded message, very LOUD, "This is the F.B.I. calling. Every two minutes a home is burglarized".....blah blah blah; trying to sell a home security alarm system. I just hang up. No person ever came on the line.
The native Indians calling for donations for the Colorado wildfires finally quit though.......so that's good news. When I looked at caller I.D. the "Indians" were calling from Amsterdam, New York. One native american got a little testy when I told her our son lived in Colorado and would she like to donate to him?
There should be a law against these type of nuisance phone calls, plus all charities that call at all hours of the day and night.
Anyway, you are wise not to give out any personal info over the phone.
Ditto for those drawings. Your name and number might be circulating around forever.