Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I wanted to warn folk on here about something.
I had a call last week from 'Me' Magazine, saying that a survey I filled in recently had meant I entered into a prize draw, and I had won a day at a health spa as well as various vouchers. I apparently was to be sent a free magazine which also contained some vouchers, and an information pack telling me where to book my spa day etc.
Alll I had to do was, surprise surprise-pay £1 for the postage and packing for this stuff, and for this they needed by debit card details.
I was suspicious, and asked them to email me with the details ("No no Miss we can't do that") or send me a confirmation in writing-again, (heavy foreign accent of some sort "No no Miss we can't do that") and in the end I told them to b0g off an put the phone down.
BUT, I didn't tell him this immediately. I was intrigued by it and the only reason I didn't go for it, is because I'm cute. I can TOTALLY see why somebody else would do.
What made me think it may be genuine, is this chap gave me a word that he said confirmed their genuineness, a password that I had used when filling in the survey. It WAS a password I have used in the past, quite often. No idea where he had that from.
When I put the 'phone down I searched the 'net and found this ,
BEWARE 'ME MAGAZINE' SCAM!!! - Your say! - Made For Mums
& I am 99.9% sure that this 'Me Magazine' company, is where the call was from.
I've no idea how they manage to get away with scamming people in this day and age but just wanted to let people know just in case you're next on their dialler!
