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| United Public Opinion Group SurveyCruise.com, UPOG, Deceptive marketing. offered free cruise ticket for taking phone survey and giving personal info b |
| 27th of Dec, 2011 by User475577 |
| United Public Opinion Group just phoned me this morning with a recorded message telling me I could get 2 FREE cruise tickets to nassau bahamas for answering a short telephone survey. After the 3min Survey I was connected to a live person who just have been seated in a very loud and open space, as I could barely hear him. This person asked for my Full Name, Telephone # and Zip Code. I should have known better than to provide this information, especially over the phone. I'm now concerned they will somehow use my personal identifying information to perform some type of identity theft and possibly sell my info off to a bunch of other soliciting companies and bombard me with spam and bogus offers. I knew the offer was too good to be true when I was instructed to go to surveycruise.com and enter my telephone number and zip code into the webpage to log in. When I attempted to log in and claim my 2 FREE cruise tickets the website returned an error page with debugging code. I tried several times and then decided to google search the company online. I found a few ripoff Reports about this company and others who have experienced the same problem accessing the page and now I know this is a total ripoff and others need to be warned. BEWARE OF United Public Opinion Group or anyone calling with an offer for free travel tickets if you complete a short phone survey. DO NOT DO IT! I'm terrified to think of whats being done with my information now and I'll have to monitor my credit reports, credit cards and bank accounts. And find a way to remove myself from opt-in calling list these d**n marketers are using. |
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Its not likely identity theft. They are mostly gathering the info and selling it to other telemarketing organizations / companies and possibly scammers / phishers. By going to their web site and entering your phone number and zip code you validated those two pieces of information and at the same time they were able to determine the name of your Internet Service Provider and the city from which you made the internet connection.
My recommendation is that other recipients of the call should provide false response to the questions, proved a false name, and a false postal code (from another state or province). Do not enter any info on the web site. If enough people feed these scoundrels enough false data, their customers will discovers its worthless and these folks will be out of business pretty fast, |
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| My husband just told me he got the same call, but we didn't get an error code. He entered his info and a confirmation code was given to us to use when carribean cruises calls. We'll see what happens. |
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| I just got the call and now am worried about my information getting into the wrong hands. I'll see if they will call me and I am feeling very stupid for given in to this scam |
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| I just got a call and then got directed to a live person who asked me the same things then told me to go tothe website. I went to the website and gave them my info and it took me to a page congratulating me and saying i will be contacted in 3 days. I guess illfind out in 3 days if its a scam or not! |
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