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Waka Network Walmart Survey Scam
Did you get a phone call claiming that you won a free Walmart gift card? As you probably guessed, it’s too good to be true, and very few people – if any – ever really get a gift card. Read on for more information on who this is.
Fake Survey Telemarketer
The group associated with this phone number is the Waka Network.
The call we received for this “offer” was from 415-121-6432, but Waka first came to our attention a few months ago. They are known to call and to text, and it’s almost always the same “prize” they want to offer you – a Walmart gift card. The denomination may vary from $10 to $1000, and occasionally they’re known to offer other prizes such as iPads.
What do they want?
There are two possible answers to this question. They may tell you that they want to give you a $10 Wal-Mart card, and all they need is some contact info. They will push for you to “go to your computer” to sign on and complete the order. This is where they will attempt to get personal information that you absolutely should not give them. They may also want to up-sell you to a $100 Wal-Mart card in exchange for filling out a survey. Either of these cards will eventually require your credit card number and contact information for some phony “processing” charge such as $2.98. Do not give these people your credit card information! It’s also possible they want you to sign up for a “rewards” program, which will be impossible to complete. Either way, you will be on the losing end of this battle.
If you ask them how they got your number, they’ll probably tell you that you filled out a survey online, which you probably didn’t. If you ask them what survey it was, they either won’t know or will tell you some cryptic name that won’t sound familiar. You may actually be talking to a computer, and not a real person.
The Phone Numbers
Calling 4151216432 will yield you a busy signal. Anyone who will call you from a number that you can’t call back is conducting bad business and should be avoided.
Wakanetwork.com lists a phone number of 877-332-1490. I’ve never been able to contact a person at this number.
Wakanetworkinc.com lists a phone number of 877-237-9772. This one never seems to be answered at all.
They may also call from 657-306-7365 or 2068886592. Neither of these numbers seems to be available to call back either.
Read more about Waka in these two other articles from the past couple months:
Have you received a call like this, perhaps from a different number? What was the number and if you answered, what did they say to you?
A similar “service” out there is 100CardNow.com which is hooked in with OnlineRewardsClub.com. This is a similar, if not related, “rewards” program which requires your participation in 13 “sponsor offers.”
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Just got this call from them. The said I filled out a survey from Walmart and were giving me a $100 gas card, $10 Walmart gift card, and a Ipod. a went to their website as directed, BUT while they were talking to me with instructions I told her to hold on was having problems with my laptop and went to Goggle and searched Wakanetwork for a scam. Got your site and told her “Caught ya …. This is a scam … goodbye”.
Just got the same call from them. she said I filled out a survey from Walmart and were giving me a $100 gas card, $10 Walmart gift card,after
when she asked for a credit card i got suspicious and hung up.
Good news for everybody the WAKA COUPONS company that doing a fraud in your credit card was seize by the NBI today.. The raid was
happened 3am o clock in Cebu City Phillipines.. So Dont worry guys..so if you read this please inform everybody or spread this message so that they will know..
Correction, the recently raid on a call center in cebu for offering waka coupons was made by the Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group of Visayas Region headed by police Senior Inspector Michael T Virtudazo and not the NBI.
Call center raided by cops in Cebu for selling bogus gift cards to Americans
By Chito O. Aragon
Inquirer Visayas
5:46 am | Friday, May 17th, 2013
15 650 241
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Police raided an outbound call center company at the Cebu Business Park in Cebu City Thursday on suspicion that it duped Americans into buying bogus gift cards.
But Glenn Villariza, lawyer of Interface Techno-Phil Inc. located on the second floor of Keppel Building, denied the company was engaged in illegal activity. “As far as I know, their operation was legal,” he said.
Operatives of the Anti-Cybercrime Group (ACG) seized more than 300 computers and invited for questioning almost 100 employees who were later released.
Senior Inspector Michael Vertudazo, chief of ACG in Central Visayas, said the owners and officers of the call center company, which had been operating for three years, would be charged with violation of Republic Act 8484, an act regulating the issuance and use of access devices and prohibiting fraudulent acts.
The raid was done on the strength of a search warrant issued by Judge Ramon Daomilas Jr. of Regional Trial Court Branch 11.
Vertudazo, chief of ACG in Central Visayas, said the operation stemmed from the tip received by five employees of the company that Interface Techno-Phil was duping their customers.
Two of these employees signed an affidavit that convinced the judge to issue a search warrant, said Vertudazo.
He said the call center agents would call customers in the US and ask them to buy a registration card, which would cost $2.99 excluding processing fees in exchange for $100 gift card vouchers for all gasoline stations in the US, gift cards exclusive for Wallmark Grocery, and other freebies.
After the customers bought the cards through credit cards, the call center agents would no longer communicate with them.
During questioning, some agents complained that they only received P150 a day in wage. Regular employees allegedly didn’t have SSS and Pag-Ibig coverage.
Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/410755/call-center-raided-by-cops-in-cebu-for-selling-bogus-gift-cards-to-americans#ixzz2ThIJCaf0
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Someone from 917-383-0089 has been trying to reach my iPhone, I thought it could be legit since that is a NYC mobile no exchange. But when I answered, it was the “you completed an online survey” crap. When I told her I was a NYC lawyer and very busy, she rudely hung up. These people are slime.
Huge scam!!! My husband thought a great gift, now they are taking money out of our account: try to call 866-259-9490 and then they will say we will give you a free offer…push and push until you get it cancelled. I will let you know the outcome! plus if you do, do this, you will get charge an international fee from your bank…double trouble!
Just got a call today which the girl told me I did a survey online. She asked me to go to the website wakanet.work info to fill my info and when i asked her why she’s asking for my credit card information she said because I’ve been getting. $100 gas card, a walmart gift cert and $10 but I said Sorry miss i cant get through. She asked me to refresh my browser and I said i still cant get through . I became suspicious coz she’s so eager to get my credit card info. I just hang up. Thank God…The number is 3476741910…
This representative that called me kept repeating the same lines over and over. She did not listen. It was obvious that she had certain lines to speak and not to deviate from it.
YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER TO RECIEVE FREE ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i received a similar call today from what seemed like a lady, but became obvious to be a computer generated script. damn scammers are using much more intelligent tatics to fool unsuspecting victims.
On May 11, 2013 at 7:10pm EST I received a a call from 203-864-6238 telling me I just recently filled out a survey for Walmart. I said I don’t remember filling out any survey. Then she told me she has gift cards for me totaling $60 and told me to go to a computer and sign on to wakanet.work info.
I didnt go to the website but when I typed in Wakanet, I saw lots of scam articles. So I told her I wasn’t interested and she kept talking so I hung up.