Got a call from 480-9390 from some guy with an accent he said he was from mastercard this time he called me before saying he was from visa I told him where to go and he called me back 3 times swearing and threatening me I reported him to phonebusters last time guess they don't do anything

They are branching out to Portage. I let them speak with my 3 year old while I laughed in the background and then promptly call blocked the number.

Got a call in Manitoba.  A man with an Indian accent said he was calling from CIBC Visa and said I had won a free trip to Florida for paying off my account balance every month.  He asked for the expiration date to verify and then he would send out the package for me.  I refused and asked him to send the material in the mail to look at.  He said he would, but first I'd have to provide my expiration date.  I said I wasn't comfortable giving that information out over the phone.  He then hung up.  I called Visa and said they were offering no such promotion.

i am also in toronto, and he called me at 2:41

... or maybe you just gave him the information he was looking for, eg. that the name and phone number match. If you start getting many more scam calls in the next few weeks, you'll know soon enough!

here in BC. keep getting the call for a mr. anderson. who is not me... has called atleast 7 times over the last few months you think he would get the point

Just got a call from a guy at this number with an East Indian accent. He said he was calling from the Head Office of Visa and Mastercard. He asked if I had a Visa or Mastercard. I laughed and said I never heard of Visa and Mastercard having a head office together as they are two different companies. "Where is it located?" He hung up.

me too, same story as all the above.
how horrible.
marquette,mb

I received the exact same call with an East Indian accented man stating he was calling from Visa and that I had a visa which gets points and because I'm a good customer with a good payment history I could choose from one of four free trips.  He varified my address (which was correct) and he asked what bank I dealt with.  I said if he was with Visa he should know that...then he said "I'm just verifying.  I said RBC already feeling uncomfortable.  When he next asked for the expiration date I said "no, if you are from Visa you know this info and should not be asking."  He then wanted to know the expiratioin on my visa and I then said that Visa would never ask that info and I would not give that to him and hung up.  Reported this to Visa Fraud....do the same.

I got the same call tonight from 412-923-4565.
I won a trip to Florida and two other places as well as $1000 spending for two weeks for 4 people.
Thick accent, lots of background noise and he actually was cutting in and out.
He said his name was Mike Thomspson, ya right! I'm in Winnipeg too.
Well I was pretty stupid. I did give some information.
At the end of the call, he had to do a verification of my name and address. During that time I asked a question. Then after all that, he told me they had to do the verification again because I'm not allowed to ask any questions during that time.  I'm only supposed to say yes or no!
I pretty much knew it was a scam and knew I'd be calling Visa as soon as I hung up.
But I stayed on the phone to get as much info as I could about this scam.

I called Visa and cancelled my card of course.  But I'm not very happy with the response I got from them.  They said they couldn't really tell me if this was legitimate or not!  He said it was best to cancel the card, (no kidding).  But he didn't ask for all the details of the conversation I had with this scam artist!  I was hoping they would look into it, but I guess that is not their job.

In Manitoba, I also just got a call, also East Indian accent, said his name was James, calling from Visa account services. He had my name and address, which is worrisome. I called my credit card security department to let them know, after I dialed *69 to get the number. 412-923-4565.

Just got a phone call from this number on my Manitoba land line. Same East Indian accent, trying to get me to do something with reward points on my 'mastercard'. I don't have a mastercard and after not being able to understand him and getting very angry with him as I suspected it was a scam, he hung up on me. I am currently on hold with my Visa company to report it, hopefully if enough people report it they will do something about it.

Called me back a second time his number wasn't blocked.
204-480-9390
"number is disconnected" when I called it.
Linked to the carrier Rogers

Recognized the visa verification scam right away.  Told the guy I would report him to the police and hung up.  He called back using caller id blocking and made some death threats and told me he would **** my daughter.

Does anyone actually do anything with this info?
Is there people trying to catch this con artist?
I would like to see results!

Doesn't that guy know that Winnipeg isn't in Nova Scotia?? lol

I just received a call in Winnipeg from this number (412)923-4565.....involved a man with a strong East Indian accent telling me that I had accumulated some visa reward points and won an all expenses-paid 2 week vacation. This reeked of being a scam, but just to get more infomation, I asked him which visa company he was with. He seemed to hesitate, and then stated "Nova Scotia Visa".....I think he was trying to imply Scotiabank but clearly did not know what he was talking about. When I told him I didn't have a visa and accused him of trying to scam me, he became very defensive and said "Well I have a record of you having a visa with us....how do I know that YOU'RE not lying??"

Are you kidding me??? Since when do visa reps do that??? He got a mouthful after that.....I told him to never call me again and hung up on him. Just to be safe I called Scotiabank to let them know that someone was scamming using their name.

So annoying!!

I got a phone call from the above number (412-923-4565).

He asked "Is this Mr. [lastname]?" and I said "Yes."

He immediately hung up. Maybe my "Yes" reply was too honest for him!! lol

I just got a call from the guy..at 412-923-4565

sounds like the same guy from 416 111 1111

trying to scam me for my credit card info

im surprised with all the internet technology we have at our fingertips that we cant pin point where these calls are coming from so far ive heard pensylvania but thats it...
come on hackers find this guy
we all want to know who he is

scambuster

Credit cards are legitimately asking for more info about your account to fall in line with the new legistlation.  This guy (from India) is not pretending to be your credit card company and is asking for your SIN and other confidential information.  DO NOT give him any info.  If you are concerned about your credit card, call the number on the back of the card.

Same call and details as everyone else -- this was on Oct 28/10 to my land line in Manitoba. I let him prattle on for awhile but when I challenged him about needing my expiration date on my VISA he hung up.  I immediately called VISA customer service and they said they would pass it onto their fraud department.  I also called the number (412-923-4565) and a recording came on and said it couldn't make the call and to check the number I was dialing.  How do these scam artists get protected like this?  I worry about older people, alone and not sure what to do.  I hope VISA can put an insert in with their statements and tell their customers about this.

I received a call from an east indian male saying  he was from some credit card place,as I didnt understand where... saying as a credit card holder i have been selceted to win a trip to the USA....
Told him I do not have any credit cards ,and how can i have won anythng if i dont own a Credit Card.?. He Hung up right away.. I wish he had not as i really wanted more info... like what country he is calling from and who the company is he worked for and his full name and ID..... call was from  412-923-4565. ... I wanted to chat and the Chicken hung up on me...! lol
Do they really think we are stupid?  I mean even if I did have a Credit Card I'd Never give it out to anyone over the phone ... Wow, its getting worse and worse this fraud..
More awareness needs to get out there for alot of people that think maybe this is legit.. Too many people are being scammed and this is not right

Just got a call from an Indian guy, telling me he was from some credit card service. I said, what service? He seemed annoyed and repeated it. I still couldn't understand the company name, knew it was a scam and hung up. Why would an American number call me about a credit card?

I just got a similiar phone call in Manitoba from the same guy. He said I won a trip all expenses paid trip to Florida for 4 people that can be used anytime in 12 months. He said it was special promotion from Visa and Mastercard. I told him that I don't use my credit cards. He had my name and said I know it's hard to believe but you have won. He talked very fast and was difficult to understand. I told him I didn't enter any contests and that I didn't believe him. He hung up.

Got a call from some  east indian accented guy talking about VISA claiming he was at the head office. He knew my first name. I told him he must be scamming me. So he said yes this is a scam and I am going to charge you $600 to your card. I called back to the number 4129234565 and got the message:

Hi,
You've called someone's textplus texting number.
to reach them right now text the message number.
to get your own free texting number, visit  textplus.com.
Thanks.

Wikipedia says that "Area code 412 is a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania telephone area code which serves most of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (including Pittsburgh), along with small portions of Washington and Westmoreland counties"
http://usaphoneinfo.com/412/trace-results.php?phone=412-923-4565 says this is a landline from:
Area: Carnegie, Pensylvania    County: Allegheny
here is a map of where the phone number is apparently located:
http://www.who-rang.com/412-923-4565.html

Same thing as the others.  Man with heavy East Indian accent claiming to be from Visa called to say I'd won a trip to Florida.
I told him I did not enter any contest, he said Visa randomly chose me and he needed to "verify" I was the legal card holder.
I asked him how he was planning to verify that (what information would he need, etc).  He just kept saying he need to verify the card before he could give me details about the trip.  I kept asking how.  He finally said he needed to verify my expiration date.  I told him that made no sense and that I would call Visa directly and then hung up.
I immediately called Visa and told them.  They confirmed there is no such contest and have received calls about similar "scams" but when I offered the phone number, the claimed there was nothing they could do.  They asked if there had been any fraudulent charges on my card, but they can't really do anything because they are "international" (????).  I told them that if a person is claiming to be an agent of Visa to gain personal financial information they could report it as fraud in the jurisdiction of the phone number so I told them to just take the number down (but I doubt they did).
Based on the comments about this number on this site, I also reported it by phone to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (www.antifraudcentre.ca).  They were more interested but did little more than take my report and give me a file number (When you call them, you will be on hold for a while...if you want to report the complaint online you've got to register on their site.  BTW: They ask for personal information too: name, address, phone number; but I guess if they are actually filing the report, it is necessary.  I was asked if they could share the report with other law enforcement agencies: I said they could share info about the call, but not my personal info).

Most times I don't care who has called but for some strange reason I decided to the "reverse # lookup.  Can't imagine my surprise when I read all the comments.  Weird part is I just my son a plane and bus ticket online yesterday.  I think I'm gonna call my crd card cmpy just to be on the safe side.

Thanks to all that have reported!

I got the same thing at 5:18 pm. Man with a thick east indian accent said he was from Visa...then he said he was from mastercard 2 minutes later. I asked for the company name of who he works for. He said the Credit Card Head office, in toronto. Then he started insulting me. I told him to remove my number from all of his scams. He said he would keep calling over and over. I asked for his supervisor,. he refused and said very quietly that he wanted to f*** me. He kept on with that line of disgusting BS until I hung up.

Don't give your info to this PoS, it's definitely a scam. I called the non-emergency police line, and they told me to call telephone fraud - 1/888-495-8501 or go to the website www.recol.ca. They're closed right now, but we can all call them at 8am tomorrow morning!

They are hanging up when they hear a younger, annoyed or otherwise unlikely targets voice. They are waiting to hear an elderly person speaking. SCAM ARTIST LOSERS.

5:00 pm Nov. 22/10. Winnipeg.  Got a call from this number 412-923-4565 (PA area code).  I did not answer.  These crazy callers know answering machines cut in on 3rd ring so they hang up.   Hey, Do Not Call Registry, are you reading these complaints??  Manitoba is getting blitzed by this clown.