Just got a call from this number with an automated message stating:

Because you are a preferred Telus customer, you qualify for a free gift.  Please press 1 to accept.

I hung up.

Woah! I won 100,000 airmiles ... which I even not use for over 5 years.Smelling Scam ... I didn't answer the first personal question ... : my name.So! I asked: Who won? My name or my airmile card?She hanged up!

Just received a call, didn't answer, and no message left. I'm not with Telus, Bell, and do not collect airmiles, as some have indicated. So, just another scam call.

About 4 hours later and guess what number calls my cell?

For the record, I'm on Telus and Telus Mobility so it sounds like it doesn't matter who you're with.

Got a call from this number on my cell phone earlier this afternoon.  I have some clients in Manitoba, so I answered the call because I recognized the area code if not the exact number.  Started listening to a recorded message saying that "because I was a valued Telus customer (which is true - how did they know that??) I had won 1000 travel points; press 1 to accept". At which point I hung up.Problem is that I'm currently on spring break vacation in Southern California.  So this B.S. call cost me at least a buck with LD and roaming charges.  I wish there was a way to track down the b*st*rds making these calls & chop off their hands so that they could never use a dial pad or keyboard again!!!!  ARRRRGGGHH!!!!

I suspect the perpetrators are using mechanized calls using internet to phone technology and are calling from god knows where.

Its impossible to trace these numbers as they come up as disconnected, contacting the phone company that runs the area code advised me that some are using illegal call display modification.

This tells me they are in control of a local exchange carrier or similar.