scam???
Complaint
jada
Country: United States
dont know if its a scam or not but wanted to add to others? got a call from 000-000-0000 on my cell from central rewards from az usa, they wanted to give me a 500.00 gift card but i had to give them the 16 digit number on the front of my visa or mastercard and after i receive the gift card and im ok with it they will charge my card only 4.95? i spoke with 3 different representitives who were all of indian decent and all hand the last name of brown???? they said they were related? this could be on the up and up but i didnt do it? was afraid? possible i just missed out on 500.00 gift card but didnt risk it? they were nice and patient i made them explain it several times?
Comments
They are engaged in fraudulent telemarketing, offering this "gift card" or "free gas vouchers" to con people into disclosing their account information.
Many complaints report they start seeing monthly charges of around $50 appearing, for this supposedly "free" offer. Some report never receiving any "gift card" or "vouchers", others report the later disclosed terms make it impossible to actually come out ahead after the cost of the undisclosed monthly charges.
They are not in "Arizona", but operate out of a call center in India, in the Mumbai area. One of their former employees in India even came on here and posted some information about them.
Several other commplaints have reported reaching them when calling their own bank, utility, or insurance company, and they pretended their "offer" was connected to the consumer's own company, which never heard of them. They may be grabbing 800 numbers 1 digit different from large legitimate U.S. company call centers to catch unwary callers, or they might be a fraudulent rogue operation operating from this overseas call center possibly used as an outsourced customer service facility for U.S. companies.
If you find charges against your account, immediately contact your bank to dispute the charges as fraudulent. Your bank can reverse charges if you dispute them promptly, under FRB Reg. E or FCBA.
If you find charges, or even if you suspect they have your account information, immediately contact your bank to close the account or block the card number to prevent fraudulent charges.