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Location: Washington (Seattle)
- Okay friends, I have some insight on this 'You have won a free cruise' call.
I was NEVER bugged by telemarketers and 'spam' calls for the first 2 years I've had this phone. I am a 'no-contract' user on the T-Mobile carrier service. I had always bought minutes cards from stores and did it that way, mostly for convenience. One weekend I was in the middle of a call and ran out of minutes (duh!). I searched T-Mobile's online site to see what my options were. One was to call a number, SUPPLIED by T-Mobile, which would accept my debit card. It was an important call that was interrupted, so I hesitantly used the above mentioned method to add minutes. AS SOON as the transaction was finished I IMMEDIATELY got this telemarketer call (the Free Cruise Winner variety!). I am CERTAIN there is a connection. When I got my monthly card statement it listed a third-party company in Oregon that handled my 'add minutes' transaction for T-mobile. So you folks do the math here: I never had ANY spam calls ... added minutes using the number supplied by T-Mobile ... hung up from the transaction ... and within 30 seconds got this effin' call that you folks have gotten, which I now get on a regular basis. Connection or pure coincidence? What do you think? It's not easy for telemarketers to get new cell numbers, most use some method of 'Demon Dialers' that just dial thousands of random numbers in minutes. Pretty sweet for a company who handles a transaction for a carrier, eh? Instant access to tens-of-thousands of legitimate user numbers. I tried to report my experience ... HA! Fell on on deaf T-Mobile ears. They (of course) knew nothing about what I was reporting. Sure they didn't, the third-party company they hired is not going to TELL them about their lucrative little scam!
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