{"id":12268,"date":"2015-01-12T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T00:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2015-10-31T18:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T22:16:45","slug":"trip-to-bahamas-take-a-survey-ftc-robocall-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/trip-to-bahamas-take-a-survey-ftc-robocall-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Bahamas? Take a Survey! | #FTC #Robocall #Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company offering a trip to the Bahamas in exchange for a 90-second survey is back; they called me this morning.<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12268-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/call_10-52-47_IN_16468474918.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/call_10-52-47_IN_16468474918.mp3\">https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/call_10-52-47_IN_16468474918.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMy call came from 646-847-4918. They did the same scam from another company some years ago, with some people even <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20120423163236AAhg2ln\" target=\"_blank\">reporting back<\/a> <em>after <\/em>going on the supposed cruise (the vessel described by one user as &#8220;an old tub [converted ferry]&#8221;). the Billfold have an extremely detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/thebillfold.com\/2012\/05\/the-almost-free-cruise-that-almost-was\/\" target=\"_blank\">write-up of the encounter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How are these things just not outright illegal and shut down? I understand even 1-in-a-million could be bait-and-switched for this scam, and there are 300m people in the USA so that&#8217;s at least 300 suckers waiting to be taken advantage of, but how is the process still allowed? Judging from the Billfold&#8217;s article <em>Shirley <\/em>is some lady in the Carolinas just waiting for the opportunity to transcribe your bank account details.<\/p>\n<p>Got a robocall? <a href=\"https:\/\/complaints.donotcall.gov\/complaint\/complaintcheck.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a complaint to the FTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company offering a trip to the Bahamas in exchange for a 90-second survey is back; they called me this morning. &nbsp; My call came from 646-847-4918. They did the same scam from another company some years ago, with some people even reporting back after going on the supposed cruise (the vessel described by one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[970],"series":[],"class_list":["post-12268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-scam"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bahamas-celebration-edited.jpg?fit=272%2C171&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-3bS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12276,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions\/12276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}