Maybe RCI really did call

[sfwilshire]

Got one of the typical sales calls tonight claiming to be from RCI. They were going to be in the area to give updates and would give us a free dinner. Playing with the caller a bit, I ask for her number so I could confirm she was from RCI. She gave a number that I didn't recognize. I told her I didn't believe she was from RCI. She said, no problem, I can call other people.

After we ended the call, I Googled the number and it looks like it really was RCI. The listing was just like my credit card bills from them show up. Now I wish I had at least found out if the free dinner was somewhere I like. Might have been an amusing evening.

Sheila

 

[Margariet]

No, that definitely was not RCI. Anyone can give you a RCI number. I can give you one if I call you. RCI does not give presentations, does not entertain, does not give diners away. RCI is an exchange organization and mediates, nothing more, nothing less. You would be amused if I show you all the scam mails I received from Indian doctors, Belgian lawyers, all for real, all with real hopitals and law offices. Only the real professionals didn't know that their personal details were borrowed through Google by Nigerian scammers ...

 

[LannyPC]

After we ended the call, I Googled the number and it looks like it really was RCI.

Sheila

In such a case, I would ask for the person's extension. Then, I would say, "I am going to hang up and call RCI back and ask for your extension so that we can continue this conversation."

 

[chriskre]

RCI employees must be really busy these days taking everyone out to dinner.

 

[bogey21]

I have taken advantage of many of these "free dinner" opportunities. I have never bought anything they are selling but you would be surprised what you can learn. Just one example is that I learned that in Texas someone over 65 can defer their property taxes forever at a relatively low rate of simple interest. Of course their heirs have to pay up in order to take title or sell the house.

George

 

[fishingguy]

Well, if it is the real RCI, then I can see why the websites are about 30 years behind, are not efficient and don't work worth a darn. Heck -- they must be pumping all that extra money into taking people out to dinner!

...hey, maybe it's the IT/web services techs doing all the entertaining? That would explain even more. :hysterical:

 

[sfwilshire]

In such a case, I would ask for the person's extension. Then, I would say, "I am going to hang up and call RCI back and ask for your extension so that we can continue this conversation."

That's what I should have done. Next time.

Sheila

 

[chriskre]

So today I get a text from 321-557-0559
It says and I quote:
"SMSCaster.com: Please call 800-805-0320 ext. 7026 regarding your RCI account.

I googled it and found that someone posted on timeshareforums that it's a scam from a company named Corporate Travel Concepts.
Of course when you call the 800 number you get a generic menu that could be any company USA or international for that matter. So I'm sure RCI doesn't want to really text me about my account since I have no ongoing requests and no reason for them to call me. Just a new twist in the scams.

Just registered with this site and can now reply and help you with what little info I gained today (a Saturday the 6th of AUG 11).
First, the guy who called me didn't want to give me the full name, website, location of his office (he admitted to being in the Orlando area), nor did he want to talk specifics about money for fear of me hanging up on him I am sure.
I star 69'd him and got not only the number (800)805-0320, but the full name of the company from a message machine (Corporate Travel Concepts). He'd only told me that the name was Corporate Travel, and no more.
My Spidy Senses were peeked when he started speaking at light speed, repeating how great they are and how much big money I was going to make (all dead give aways of a scam when they keep repeating facts too good to be true and do it at blazing speeds).
The unsettling part of the whole thing was, he had/has all of my timeshare info making him "SEEM" legitimate. I asked him how and where he'd received my info and he replied, "as a perk to being a Wyndham and RCI member, your info is shared with us to better assist you in renting or selling your timeshare".
Hmmmmmmmmm......................... Me thinks that I don't like my info being shared with anyone without my consent. Too many scammers out there like the one who just called me.
Thanks to all of you who post for your info and stories that make it easier for me to hang up on these guys when they call me back.
If in doubt, google it and research it before opening up your wallet. I have had to learn the hard way too. I was taken in by a guy named Skip at Gold Crown who promised to sell my timeshare. Riiiiiiiiiiiight! Scammers! All of them!
Unless you can go to their offices and see their faces and read body language, do not do this type of business over the net or phone.
Good luck.
Eissed:

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[sfwilshire]

So today I get a text from 321-557-0559
It says and I quote:
"SMSCaster.com: Please call 800-805-0320 ext. 7026 regarding your RCI account.

I googled it and found that someone posted on timeshareforums that it's a scam from a company named Corporate Travel Concepts.
Of course when you call the 800 number you get a generic menu that could be any company USA or international for that matter. So I'm sure RCI doesn't want to really text me about my account since I have no ongoing requests and no reason for them to call me. Just a new twist in the scams.




SMS caster is a bulk SMS texting from computer software company. Just what I need, not only am I getting tons of calls but now I'm gonna get texts too. http://www.smscaster.com/

I had phone messages three days in a row a couple of weeks ago telling me that they wanted to rent my exchange weeks. I dropped both RCI and II an email with the specifics. RCI requested any more info I had. II never responded.

If you want to send your details to RCI, I use the feedback@rci.com address.

Sheila