Competition Phishing Scam

Lsuitup01 on 21/11/2014 - 14:24

I recently entered a competition at my local shopping centre on the table of a fast food restaurant. After receiving a phone call confirming my entry, I searched their number to find 2 or 3 people complaining that the person who made those calls in partaking in a phishing scam. I'm a bit scared now because I did give them my personal details, and the idea of identity theft is leaving me extremely worried. When typing the name of the company on Google, only an address of their company shows up, but other than that I cannot find their official website or any other information.
Do you guys think this is a phishing scam, and can these people do anything with my details such as my name, date of birth and address? I need someone to relieve my mind, haha.

Thanks.

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  • 2ndeffort on 21/11/2014 - 14:40
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    Not sure but most likely they are collecting your details to feed into a database. They will then sell 'sales leads' to other companies from that database. They will tell those other companies they can guarantee sales leads that fit specific criteria. Likely upshot for you is that you will start receiving dinnertime calls from people wanting to redo your roof tiles, fix your computer, make you aware of a 'special tax department program', sell you an investment property etc etc. Probably much less likely that you'll find out they've applied for a credit card or disability support pension in your name etc.

    • suitup01 on 21/11/2014 - 14:54

      Thanks for replying. I thought the competition was legitimate considering a popular fast food restaurant displayed the stand directly in front of their register. You don't think they would allow this company to advertise this competition without doing a background check right?
      Its not like they will use my details to make a fake ID or anything serious? Sorry for the questions. I have a tendency to overreact to things.

      • Baysew on 21/11/2014 - 17:50

        I think I have filled these sort of things out while being bored waiting for fish and chips.

        It was a while back and I used william.gates @microsoft.com as a contact detail. I wonder if he won the computer on offer ?

        As 2ndeffort has stated, it will be more of getting nuisance calls from Time Share sales people and the like, rather than anything more sinister. ( A phone book is a bigger start for a would be faker)

        Post the Name of the company, I'm sure the OZBargain detective agency will suss it out for you.

    • donga100 on 21/11/2014 - 20:05

      Yeah, it's almost certainly this. I have worked for a company in the past who did exactly this. The competition was still legit but you also ended up getting a call to do a "market research survey" if the info you supplied matched the criteria we were looking for. This info was then later used to offer you products/services.

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