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$100 Rebate Card
Country United States
Type of a scam Bank/Credit Card Company Imposter Scam
Initial means of contact Phone
Says they have Deal with Amazon
Scam YOU saying you work with Amazon /Magazine Prescription
Called my credit card company and got them
Same as everyone else, official email with bad phone #
$100 Gift Card Scam
DISCOUNT AND SAVINGS ADVANTAGE SCAM SCAM SCAM
Not a scam
The first thing they tell you at this company is "DO NOT LIE TO MAKE THE SALE." The second thing they do is hand you a playbook full of lies--except in the places where we're legally obligated to tell the truth.
The voucher is NOT real. Many reports online from people who can't use them--which makes sense, this company barely exists, there's no way they have a huge voucher program with connections to every major retailer on the continental US.
More than likely the list of "No Sell" states that you're told to try to get a friend or family's address for instead are actually states with stricter laws that prevent this [censored]. I wouldn't know though--despite being told to claim I was calling from Draper Utah and worked for Discount Savings & Advantage, I was actually calling from a Canadian call center called TeleSolutions. They convince people they're doing sales when what they're actually doing is bullying old people into signing up for [censored] they don't want by lying aggressively.
ight in to saking you for your cerdit car number without asking you if you have any questions, that is a part of the play book they are reading from, the purposely dont stop to ask if you have questions, they just want your credit card number. Google the company name, nothing good comes up, and no validation of the company can be found. SCAM SCAM SCAM
Scammed by Discount and Savings Advantage
Scammer's website Dont know
Scammer's address Dont know
Scammer's email Dont know
Country United States
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes
Initial means of contact Phone
Basically a service designed to [censored] consumers even more while helpfully destroying every call redirect job in the country.
"Kareem" at Discount Savings Advantage Cannot Provide A Website
He INSISTED that he was giving out a legit website. When he was told that it needed a domain name suffix and what was the actual website, he just kept saying he was giving the web address with these words. By the way, these words, of course, brought up nothing. Well ... they bring up things like this scam page now so that's awesome!
I cannot STAND thieves and I hate LIARS and this company and this scammer was terrible. He had ZERO confidence to begin with and spoke so far from the mic on his headset you could barely hear him. Had to keep telling him to speak up. He obviously knew he was caught but, rather than admit they had no website, he just kept insisting that these few words in a search engine equaled a website. When logic was pointed out to him in that he wasn't giving a website, but just some random words that did not bring up a website, he persisted. Just pathetic.
Do not fall for this, or any of these gift voucher/card scams out there. They just want your information to use and sell. They run up your credit card until they max it out or drain your bank accounts. If, like some I have seen here, you give them your SSN info (NEVER DO THAT) they will use that for even more fraud in your name. They are thieves, users, liars, and [censored].
Never thought it would happen to me
Discount & savings scam
SCAM
DISCOUNT SAVINGS ADVANTAGE SCAM SCAM SCAM
Definitely fishy. DO NOT give your info to this company!
Yesterday, my mom was trying to call her medicare health insurance company to check on something with her account, and somehow got this line instead. After the call, she noticed that the phone number on her caller ID was the insurance company's + an additional 6, which is strange. I think they somehow manipulate the phone lines to transfer to their calling centers during afterhours for other companies. She was given one menu option - to dial 1 for a $100 retailer voucher, otherwise to stay on the line for other voucher options. She pressed the 1 for the voucher, thinking that it was an offer from the insurance company, since they offer discounts and freebies for seniors all the time. She spoke with a woman who was speaking very quietly and quickly, and it was hard for her to understand even though she asked for her to speak up and slow down. My mom asked her how she got to her and if she worked for the insurance company. The woman told her she didn't and that her insurance company must have forward her to them (uhh what?). She could get her free voucher if she gave her full name and mailing address. So my mom did. Then she proceeded to say something about $1.95, still quietly and very quickly, so my mom wasn't hearing anything correctly. My mom got frustrated and asked her to just cancel the transaction, she didn't want it anymore. The woman continued to say things quickly and quietly, so my mom just hung up on her. Reading these other accounts here (and thank you all for reporting your experiences with this shady "company"!), it's now clear that the woman was asking my mom to pay for shipping. I'm thankful that it didn't get to this point, and I’m so sorry to hear that others were unfortunately manipulated into paying.
Fast forward to today. My mom was worried she did something wrong and let me know about this. She gave me the number from her caller ID. I called today to see what I could find out. Just as expected, I reached a "menu" of one option to dial 1 for the $100 voucher and to stay on the line for other voucher options. No mention of who I had reached at all in the recording. First red flag for sure if the company doesn't identify itself from the get-go. Dialed 1 and got someone by the name of Norma. She asked for my first and last name, but I gave her just my first and asked her to please tell me what company I had reached. I let her know that my mom had called previously and signed up for a voucher, and I wanted to make sure we knew what company to expect the mail from because she didn’t catch it herself. Norma very quickly zoomed through the company name and I only got "Discount". I asked her to please repeat what came after Discount, and she refused. She quickly got defensive, started to claim that the number directs calls to different calling centers so it's probably not even the same company my mom dealt with, so it shouldn't matter. She mentioned she's in a calling center in Utah. I told her so far everything is matching what my mom experienced - that she got the same menu "options", dialed 1, and was asked for her name and mailing address just as I was. She told me that this must be with another company, because there's more to the process than just that. I asked her to tell me what else is part of the process... you know, "in case my mom needs to do anything else" ;) ;). She told me that she would explain after I gave her my full name and mailing address. I told her she didn't need my info and she can't just ask for someone's info to sign up for an offer without first disclosing the company name and full terms/process. That this is illegal. People have a right to know the terms of an offer before proceeding. She then claimed that she was going to tell me everything, but I was cutting her off and not giving her the time to. Which is not at all what was happening. I told her, okay, here's your time - what company do you work for and what else is part of the process of getting this voucher. She once again told me she would only disclose once I gave her my information. So we went around in circles like this for literally 15 minutes! I told her I wasn't getting off the line and had all the time in the world to do this until she gave me more information on this offer. She finally cracked and said the full company name again - DISCOUNT SAVINGS ADVANTAGE (after a google search and finding this page, she clearly omitted the "And”… maybe to claim it’s the not the same company ;)) At that point I told her that is all that I needed, have a good day, glad we wasted all that time just to get a simple answer to a simple question, and hung up.
Bottom line. This is clearly a shady enterprise, preying on people. So shameful. I understand that people need jobs and convince themselves that they aren't doing anything to hurt others, so I do feel badly for this Norma. She told me she's not doing anything illegal and this company has been around for 25 yrs. She either actually has chosen to believe she's not ripping people off, or knows and doesn't care. Either way, I hope she finds some peace. And I hope more people report them so they can be taken down. The sad thing is, they'll likely come back with another name and number again and again, evading authorities and preying on more people.
Please be careful, everyone. Don’t give your information to anyone, unless it’s legitimately the company you’re calling and have business with. Don’t give your credit card numbers or SSN or address. Even for something as incredible as $100 to a store. If it seems to be too good to be true, it very likely is!
Type of a scam Identity Theft
Scammed on Gift Cards
After the transaction Ms. "Latoya" was supposed to transfer me to a credit agent/representative but instead, I was disconnected. I redialed the # and got someone different! That person offered me the same except, the restaurant gift card was for $50., of course, I said NO and asked to just be transferred to a credit card agent! The person on the other end asked me which credit card company I wanted to be transferred to, huge RED FLAG! I looked at my statement and realized that I had dialed the wrong number and immediately hung up, called my bank, and canceled my bank card. Of course, when I didn't receive the supposed gift cards, I redialed the wrong number and a third person answered made the same offers but said the companies name was Discount Saving Advantage. I said NO and that I was wanting to speak with Ms. "Latoya" and gave him her ID# and my supposed Confirmation # and wouldn't you know, there was no order for me, lol!
To conclude: I'm usually more aware of these scams, but with it being the Holidays and my husband being out of work due to injury, I was really hoping for something to help with holiday shopping.
I then called Capital One's MasterCard Fraud Protection number and reported my experience to them, which was that someone is pirating calls to the number on the back of the Savor Card. In my opinion, they are totally useless, as the person I spoke to had no interest about the Discount & Savings Advantage company whatsoever and I don't think he understood what my concerns were. It was a waste of both his and my time to call at all. I also called the Draper, Utah PD to report my incident and the officer taking the call was not very interested in the details, only saying that there was an ongoing investigation going on in the jurisdiction about credit card fraud, but he would not take down any of the information I was willing to provide.
It is no wonder that there is so much credit card and internet fraud going on in this country. The people, who could do something about it are not interested in doing anything, so I guess we will have to live with it. I know I never will waste my time again for the public good as no one gives two you know whats.