Phishing warning: criminals abuse Black Friday hype
The weeks of offers around “Black Friday“ have begun. Online scammers use the opportunity to lure victims with fake warnings about unauthorized access, for example from the Netherlands. In the phishing radar, the consumer advice centers warn that fraudulent emails have been circulating since Friday stating that…
I asked them nicely to take me off their contact list and they did so within next 24 hours.
There are no more calls from this number.
Not a single call in past one month. Yay!
The calls have finally stopped. Thank you.
Thank you Simply Outbound for sharing the grievance cell number. It really helped me to restore my peace of mind.
Thank you. The calls have stopped ever since I called your grievance cell.
I am happy that at least one lifestyle survey and lead generation company has the guts to come forward to come forward and take the onus of their calls. They also offered to make things right for those who suffered due to their continuous calling. I called their grievance cell number and they stopped calling me on my request. Thank you Simply Outbound.
Getting numerous calls from a company is nothing new to me. I get 5-6 marketing and survey calls on a daily basis and chooses to ignore most of them. But after receiving a few calls from this number I gave in. I participated in the lifestyle survey. When the calls continued even after this I decided to take a more serious action. I found the grievance cell number of Simply Outbound, the company conducting the survey, and asked them to stop calling me. They assured me that I will receive no further calls from their end. After that I did not get any calls from this number.
At first I got quite scared when I started getting these calls. I have read a lot about telephone scams where they want to extract your financial data (Net banking PIN, Credit card details etc.) in the name of survey. For this reason I started declining calls from this number.
Searching for the owner of this number on the web, I found out that this number belongs to a legitimate lead generation and lifestyle survey company named Simply Outbound. They even gave their grievance cell number so that anyone who does not wish to be contacted by them can lodge a complaint there.
After gathering this information, the company seemed trustworthy to me. And so, I took the survey the next time they gave me a call. It was a collection of household questions such as the maker of my washing machine, whether or not I own a dog etc. The questions were basically harmless. And the next time I
Irritated – that’s what I was when I started getting calls from this number. But soon enough they made me angry. No matter how many times you get a call from them, they seem to keep calling back. It was getting on my nerves. I was determined to put an end to it for good. It was then I found a grievance cell number on the web where I can lodge a complaint against this non-stop calling. I called them up and asked them to stop calling me. They apologized for my inconvenience and assured us that I will not receive a call from that number again. Two weeks have passed since then and now I can conveniently say that they kept their promise – no unwanted calls!
I got calls from this number repeatedly. At first I did not respond to them as I never take calls from unknown numbers. But after a while I became frustrated and decided to find out who is calling me. So I searched the web and found a message in a complaint site in which a lifestyle survey company named Simply Outbound took responsibility for these calls. They even gave a grievance cell number where I can call and tell them to stop calling me. I was so relieved. I made the call and asked them to remove my name from their calling list. I have not received a single call from this number since then.
I was getting at least four calls a day from this number asking for my permission to do a lifestyle survey. at first I did not pay attention but then when the calling persisted, I opted for the survey. But the story did not end there. I continued to get calls from them. It was then I did an online research and found out their grievance cell number . I dialed them up and requested not to call me. They assured me that I will receive calls from their end. After that I did not hear from them. Good going!