[*PeACH*IT*UP*]

OMG! This happened to me today, and I'm freaking out. Like seriously.

Ok, so I was groggy from a nap and I answered the phone. Some lady kept talking to me about and insurance policy and that the company was "National Union Fire Insurance" or something along those lines. She just said that they would send me information on their policy and later I talked to her supervisor.

They would not shut. So I got super fed up and said "fine! just send me the 30 information trial period."

They said it would come in 7-10 days.

It wasn't until minutes later that I realized that I just made a huge mistake. I was like "OMG! I just gave out my information!" Because they asked for my birthday. The supervisor like knew everything else.

For the past few hour I've been searching around the internet for anyone who actually followed through with this plan, and found very little. I also ended up calling the number that they gave me saying it would be the number I would use to cancel and it was 1-800-613-6942 and talked to customer service for the insurance and they said it was legit.

But I seriously seriously doubt it!

I'm freaking out, because I did the stupidest thing every.

Has anyone done this thing before? Am I going to go through identity theft already?

Please help or share experiences?

[NPB-XK]

It takes more than that to be an identity theft... not that it's impossible, but they will have to go through a lot before making it happen. If they do it so easily, then your country is easily corrupted...
They can easily fake... but not easily steal.

I think what's worse would be people falling for frauds.
There's a current fraud going on right now in my country and the RCMP (Canadian police equivalent of FBI level) are currently looking at it to track the whole organization down. I was related with the CSIS at that time so none of my tasks was to spy on them. But I just independently did, and I shared some information to the RCMP very recently.

The fraud is... There's a lawyer who sends letters to people saying that they should pay fees they forgot to pay from ROGERS AT&T. The information that the lawyer sent to people are extremely accurate. So real, so many people fell for it and paid their ridiculously high fees. I studied on my sister's case since she was a victim. She moved to different houses and apartments a lot, and the real ROGERS AT&T also knew she moved out recently. Everything was all updated. We made sure she paid her fees, we made sure her information was updated. Now the funny thing is... The letter from the lawyer was sent to a location where she used to live over 5 years ago. The letter explained that she hasn't paid some fees to Rogers AT&T and she should send a check of $500 to the lawyer who claimed to be working on those cases for Rogers AT&T (with his email address and phone number to contact him <--- He never answered). The information that the lawyer got was so freaking accurate except for the address... If she still lived there, it would be more convincing. But that was a sad mistake from the "lawyer" who attempted the fraud. He kept spamming the mail every month to those who didn't pay the fees, threatening that they will be sent to court.

What me and the RCMP figured out is that there's been some informations that Rogers AT&T gave away to some of their hired group of lawyers and it leaked out, since many years ago, Rogers AT&T was involved into something (I forgot) and they had to give away informations about people who are member of their company... I personally don't know if the lawyers sold those informations away or they planned the frauds themselves, faking themselves with another name (nonexistent from the cops computer) claiming to be a lawyer. The rest of this case is currently in RCMP's hands. The letters kept saying that if we don't pay those fees, we'll be sent to the court. We have replied that we'd like to see them in court to discuss about those fees to pay up (challenging them) and... their spams stopped.

They're still active in Canada... so watch out Canadians.

[KeHAEa]

Usually in situations like this..

Don't you hang up?

[jas0n]

Further research on National Union Fire Insurance shows that they get their information from Wells Fargo thus this is how they got your phone number and everything else that surprised you.

Additional information:

I'm an Influent employee (the hired third party calling), and I will try to explain the way everything works to the best of my ability. Wells fargo provides a list of customers and numbers to be called to the National Union Fire Insurance Company, which then provides the list to us. We try to contact customers, until a max attempt is met, which is set by the client, which is in this case Wells Fargo. The reason there is no caller on the line sometimes, is because we use an automated dialer, which dials a handfull of numbers at once and goes to the first availible agent. As stated we are calling to offer insurance producs underwriten by NUFIC, this is not a scam, when you ask a banker at a local branch or even through the Telebank, most Wells Fargo employees are unaware of our program, but I can assure you if you contact the Wells Fargo corporate office they can verify to you we ARE a legitamit company. As for the poeple that say "I'm on the NATIONAL do-not call list, any company you have had a business relationship within the past 18 months are legaly allowed to call you, the best thing I can tell you is to ask polietly to be put on the WELLS FARGO do-not call list. I know the calls are frustrating, but Influent is a business, which has a call centers to pay for, employees checks to be issued, and quotas to meet to keep or clients, and or jobs along with that, which is also why we are very persistant. Please understand we are just average people doing our jobs, trying to make a legitimate living.

Source: http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/8777403335

[dso]

when a telemarketer calls

normal social conventions

can be ignored.

it's not rude to hang up, it's rude that they called

(although they're just trying to make a living)

(although i know this i still hang up feeling irritated that they called)

[replicavertu]

Dont be tense my dear, have you gave her your credit card number, it seems some call center agent was making a prank call, it can be done by some of your friend, so take it easy, but inform your bank dont transect any money from your account with out informing you.

[converse1918]

I just hang up on those people >.>
I know they are trying to make a living and such, but they always call near dinner time or when I'm busy, so they are kinda being rude, which mean's it's not rude that I hang up
I mean, they must get tons of people that hang up on them everyday so, what does one more matter : P

[Photogeek]

I know... I did that once.. but nothing bad happened.
I just learned to never give out information... hahaha NEVER!
So when they start talking to me like that, trying to get me to buy some stuff or whatever, I just hang up.... its not ... rude.. plus they wont see you so you wont feel bad hahaha.

[chewy130]

seriously why didnt u just hang up? if i get a call from someone i duno i just hang up

[AznBetty]

no thats never happened to me.

i usually just hang up. you should have done the same.

[vanggirlie]

yea like other said you should have just hung up or said in a mean tone "no".

you should check your credit. it's free once a year.
when you call to cancel and they keep giving you the run-around just tell them you want to talk to a manager and be mean about it. if your mean they usually just cancel it for you.

[theninthtrack]

I usually just politely say that I'm not interested, but when they keep on talking I just hang up.

That's not as rude as calling me on my private phone number while it's dinner time (meaning time for my family) imo.

[HENGBOK]

just act like a fob that's what i do o__o'' even though i clearly answered the phone with fluent english haha

[PDURRR]

i always hang up the phone if no one speaks within the first 2 seconds, it helps avoid telemarketers