Alma
Menlo Park,#2Consumer Suggestion
Sun, January 29, 2006
My first advice would be: never do ANY business with strangers who are calling you. There is no way you can check the real identity of the caller. (Even caller id can not help: banks, agencies, businesess usually do not call you from the well known 800 numbers.) Either ask the info in writing, or ask for a number to call back. (AND before calling back research the "company.) My second advice: anybody requesting MONEY for delivery (shipping, handling) of your grant, credit card, millions of $ from Nigeria, awards etc. IS a scam. Hang UP! If you DO believe, that any company wants to give you "FREE" hundreds, thousands of dollars, and do not want to hang up,ask ONE question: Can I send MONEY ORDER for the S&H? Because all those scumbags want checking account and or credit card numbers (to charge you for more "services"), THEY will hang up:-)) Good luck. And put your phone number on the state/federal do not call list.