SCAM and False advertising and skirting federal do not call list.
Complaint
Ray
Country: United States
I received a text that appeared to be directly from Walmart indicating the following: "Dear Walmart shopper, Congrratulations, you have just won a $1000 Walmart Gift Card. Click here to claim your gift. www.WmartDomain.com (STOP2end).:"
There was nothing in this text that indicated a requirement to pass certain criteria before you could "claim" your gift card. I went to the web site and it asked for contact infomration to send the gift card. It made since they would need this. You fill out your contact info and hit Continue. The page showing on your display ends at the Continue button so you do not know that there are a bunch a disclaimers under it. You then go forward and it asks for some personal info, eg. sarlary range, employement, if you use credit cards, etc. OK, I bit and should not have. I filled it out to see what was next. It then said I won a gift package and to call a number to get an activition code. I called the number and even for the gift package they were telling me how I got a deal and was only going to have to pay a couple dollars for the "free" gift package. Amazing. It took me longer than it should have but I hung up and logged out. Not 10 minutes later I get a call from a company indicating that I went on line and requested info on debt relief and reveived and email from Freedom Debt Relief asking me to fill out information. Obviously, they are one of the vendors that buy into this scam and use the leads from it. This is Blatant false advertising. Blatant mis use of the internet and needs to be stopped!!!. I am a sales and service person as well that relies on contacts to help me sell my services but because people sink this low in their methods it makes it more difficult for me to make contact as the general public assumes anyone trying to sell is unscrupulous. What authority can this be reported to in order to get this scam stopped immediately?
There was nothing in this text that indicated a requirement to pass certain criteria before you could "claim" your gift card. I went to the web site and it asked for contact infomration to send the gift card. It made since they would need this. You fill out your contact info and hit Continue. The page showing on your display ends at the Continue button so you do not know that there are a bunch a disclaimers under it. You then go forward and it asks for some personal info, eg. sarlary range, employement, if you use credit cards, etc. OK, I bit and should not have. I filled it out to see what was next. It then said I won a gift package and to call a number to get an activition code. I called the number and even for the gift package they were telling me how I got a deal and was only going to have to pay a couple dollars for the "free" gift package. Amazing. It took me longer than it should have but I hung up and logged out. Not 10 minutes later I get a call from a company indicating that I went on line and requested info on debt relief and reveived and email from Freedom Debt Relief asking me to fill out information. Obviously, they are one of the vendors that buy into this scam and use the leads from it. This is Blatant false advertising. Blatant mis use of the internet and needs to be stopped!!!. I am a sales and service person as well that relies on contacts to help me sell my services but because people sink this low in their methods it makes it more difficult for me to make contact as the general public assumes anyone trying to sell is unscrupulous. What authority can this be reported to in order to get this scam stopped immediately?
Comments
Called the number and got a recording that said "I'm sorry, the customer you have called has a voice mailbox that has not been activated."
Anything that sounds too good to be true usally is.