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They called me telling me i was selected in the top 10 to be put in a 1million dollar survey, because i completed a survery online in which i had to purchase a few things. The catch was i had to sign up for magazine subscriptions in order from them to process it.... they also told me since i had to pay $39.90 for stupid magazines i would get a $250 dollor visa gift card in my email within 24hours.. 24 hours later i still havent gotten it, do you thinks it because its sunday? or they scammed me?

I hope its not a scam they calledme too and I agreed

well they are scammers,

I received a call saying that a survey i took put my name in a sweepstakes for 1million dollars. All i had to do was subscribe to a magazine for $39.90 and i will recieve a $250 gift card. I realized my account was pending longer than usual and my bank told me it was them. so i called the company up and the lady acted as if she had NO CLUE what i was talking about and at that point i noticed it was a scam. I told her to cancel my transaction and she gave me a conformation number. So on 3/23/12 i received my funds back in my bank, then i went out to eat which left me $15 on my account  so on 3/24/12 $39.90 has been transacted.from my bank putting me in the hole
I want to sue them for unauthorized transactions,theft, false advertising ... what do you think i should do?

I got that same phone call a couple days ago. I won a $1000 walmart gift card and a $250 gift card. All I had to do was subscribe to 5 magazines for $39.90. She gave me her name Myah Robinson. said that the company was Southwest Periodical Service and that if I didn't receive the gift card that there company would be fined like 2 thousand or 250 thousand I forgot. They also put me into a drawing to win a millon dollars.

I hope it isn't a scam.
I just called to number but they are closed.
calling back tomorrow.

Tell your bank you are the victim of fraud and this is not a billing error. You must replace your account because scammers have it and they can charge again and again. Ask your bank to get your stolen money back for you. Avoid dealing with the magazine seller, they are scammers and they will lie to you, only deal with your bank.

This is a scam. You will be charged $40 every month because you agreed to buy a magazine subscription in the fine print that they did not tell you about. You need to replace your account because they will charge again, and tell your bank you are the victim of a scam and to get your money back for you.

I just called the company and they said that they are a real thing and that its a real contest.
So i'm going to wait and see.
They told me about the magazine subscription.
I agreed. They told me I could cancel whenever I wanted but that they would hope that I keep it.
If I dont't get a gift card in 7-14 days like they said then I will call fraud.

Let's think this through. You'd posted "I won a $1000 walmart gift card and a $250 gift card. All I had to do was subscribe to 5 magazines for $39.90." It's be years before a legit magazine service can recoup the cost of the card giveaway and when combined with "I could cancel whenever I wanted," the magazine service would lose money big time. Obviously, the game is to pay $40 for 1 month's magazines, get the cards, then cancel the magazine subscription and you'll be 1000+250-40=$1,210 ahead. Wow, what a deal! The truth is this is simply too good to be true. In fact, the FTC says that if you've won something, then you should receive the something without paying money up front for any reason (processing fee, shipping, insurance, whatever). If you have to buy a magazine subscription to win the cards, then it's a scam. Somehow I suspect that every victim this scammer calls up will be winning some fabulous prize if only they send money up front to the scammer.

Scammers also send shills online to sow confusion and a very common tactic is for the shill to volunteer as a guinea pig and go through with the scam offer and promise to report back on what happened on the deal. Well... sort of like what you're doing right now.

What makes absolutely *NO* sense is the winner HAS to buy a magazine subscription for $40/month (though you'd misleadingly stated it as a $40 flat fee like a good shill would) to collect on the alleged too-good-to-be-true deal. No magazine purchase, no cards (ILLEGAL by FTC rules), but you're perfectly happy to give your money away in an illegal deal like any good shill would. This is a scam and you're either an exceptionally gullible person or a good shill for this scam. I vote shill.

Well I no all about scams, and sure it could be one. I've looked all over online to try and find out if it is a scam and all I have found is this post.
But I really did call and talk to a real person, who confirmed that It was a real thing.
If I do in fact receive something, I will report it here.
If I don't I will also post it.
I'm not telling anyone else to follow through with the offer.
I'm just telling people what might be going on.
I just hope it's not a scam because I could really use a new living room set! LOL
but not a "Shrill"

Shill, not "Shrill" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill please don't try to mislead (so typical of shills!). Nothing you've said so far violates the type of shill post I mention above. The really good ones come back and report only modest and not spectacular gains from the deal which keeps the scam going for a while but are ultimately overwhelmed by the sheer number of I've-been-scammed victim posts. This thread is still very young.

Here is an example of the advance-fee-for-a-loan scam https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-461-2503/ where victims have to send the scammer money up front for a loan that they wait for in vain. What is the same between that and this scam is victims have to send the scammer money up front for a desirable prize that will be delivered later -- a promised $loan in that case, and $1,250 in promised cards in this case -- but which never shows up for whatever reason (in that case, the scammer wanted more "insurance" money up front before the loan can be sent) and that thread is filled with shill posts all claiming they had gotten loans and that were ultimately removed by 800notes.

The FTC discusses a version of the automatic debit scam here http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/telemarketing/tel06.shtm  where the victim is offered a free gift card or access to a credit card regardless of past credit history (in general, it can be any fabulous "prize" that certain people really want) and are hit with monthly subscriptions to strange stuff they unknowingly ordered in the fine print when they accepted the freebies. The scam as described on this thread is different from the FTC's version because scams evolve over time and today's versions of this scam will differ from what the FTC wrote some time back.

I still vote shill. If you report later that you received the cards, will I believe you then? No, I will not. Would you believe me if I told you I am Santa Claus? Obviously not, why should you? The whole scheme reeks of a scam, just read rebecca's posts.

I still haven't received anything yet. I was promised the 250 gift card in the mail when my choice of magazines came. The choices are here, but not the Gift Card. I will be calling them again to ask whats up.

still not a shrill, promise, real person hoping not to be scammed.

I see, so you did "business" with scammers but you hope not to be scammed.

I jumped into a pool full of water and hoped not to get wet LOL.

I didn't know that they were scammers, if they are. I was half asleep and it sounded like a good deal.

I just called customer service again, because I didn't receive my gift card with my conformation letter.
They said that they have now sent it out.

and its kinda like jumping into a dark hole, hoping there's not water at the bottom.

Kimberly "The Good Shill" Ferris is "still not a shrill" and you will never be one though you ARE a shill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill  Gift cards (PLURAL), not gift card (singular), don't forget about the $1,000 Walmart you'd WON in addition to the $250 gift card your employer the scammer never sent you. You need to keep your shill story straight to be believable. So your "choices are here" but you never got the magazines. What were "the choices", a LIST of magazine titles instead of actual magazines? Hahahahahahaha!

You need to call your employer the scammer back and *DEMAND* the $1,000 Walmart gift card your employer the scammer said you'd WON. Don't settle for a "conformation letter" which isn't worth anything. "kinda like jumping into a dark hole, hoping there's not water at the bottom" is A CLASSIC SHILL STORY -- hey, let Kimberly "The Good Shill" Ferris sacrifice her hard-earned $money selflessly to prove to the whole world that it was scary but ultimately safe (NOT!) to deal with this auto-debit scammer http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/telemarketing/tel06.shtm  Don't forget about the $1,000 Walmart card, shill. Your victims will want to know that you'd received it or do you plan on stringing this out a couple of pages of posts before you finally get the $1,000 card from your employer the scammer?

I worked for that company in the same cal room everyone is talking about. If you could be more specific on the sales pitch it would give us both a better understanding on what to do.

Ok. For real you can stop.
Im just posting what is going on.
and im not mixing my fricken story.
I only commented on here in the first place to find out if it was a scam.
sorry you think i work for them.
i dont.
dont believe me?
who cares.
i know the truth.

I was told that after entering something online. I was in the top 5. They said that I had won a $1000 walmart gift card, and a $250 gift card. The catch was that they were promoting magazines, and that I was to subscribe to 5. I was sent a list to choose from along with the voucher that i am supposed to send in to get my gift card, not the walmart card. I didn't know that I had to send in more crap to received all of this junk. I was also told that I was entered into a contest to win a million. she gave me a sweepstakes number and everything. her name was Myah Robinson, (so she says) and that she is the supervisor. Im also pretty sure that she is from Southwest Periodical Service or thats what she lead on.

This is all that I can remember, there is probably more that I am forgetting.

Re. "who cares," victims like rebecca do. It's been 3 days since you last posted, get your cards or your money back yet?