i get this call too. weekdays, weekends, all the time.

called me today at 2:08pm.  the caller identified herself as monique from montblanc and wanted to speak with someone at our office.  told her he was not available and she asked if he would be back later today, i said no can i help you with something.  she paused and said she would call back later.

lots of background noise and she didn't sound very professional.

Received a call from this number today on my cell phone. The mysterious man with the Indian accent told me he was calling from Telus and that my account had been selected to win a free phone. When I asked him for a return phone number so that I could verify he was calling from Telus, he repeated that I'd won a phone. I asked him if he understood what I said. And repeated that I needed some verification that he was from Telus and that this was not a fraudulent call. He hung up on me. The phone number is not capable of receiving incoming calls. There was a lot of chatter in the background, and it sounded like some kind of call center. Sounds like a huge plan to gain personal information to me...I've contacted Telus to follow up on it. Hopefully they catch this son of a *&()) before he milks some poor individual out of their own hard earned money.

I JUST got a call from this number about 5 min ago. I thought I heard him say he was calling from ebay something- which I found weird because Ebay doesn't call people... He asked for someone in my house and I said they weren't home, then he said something else...he asked if I was home alone....I said I wasn't (I was home alone) but that freaked me out when he said that! He THEN said to me on the phone- "May I say something to you? You have a very nice and sexy voice.." I was shocked. He said "Can we be friends?" WTF! Creeped me out! I said no and hung up, ran downstairs and put the chain on the door! He did have an indian accent.  Just hang up if he calls you!

You should all be aware that the CRTC SOLD the national Do Not Call list to all sorts of low life. Pretty good price too I hear.

Exact same call as bjay. Person claimed to be from "Visa Mastercard Company" saying I had been selected for a trip to Florida for 4 people. I asked for a contact number to call them back at and they gave me the 1-800 number for TD Waterhouse. Given that TD does not issued Mastercards the whole thing is completely suspect.

Person on the phone requested the 7 digits on the back of my Mastercard (which I made up as well as the fact that I even had a Mastercard at all), then he asked for the 3rd block of numbers on the front of the card, to which I again made up along with the expiry he requested. I asked him if he could verify my card immediately and he answered yes. He then read out a bunch of numbers which was supposely my Mastercard number and asked me to verify. I again questioned him if this was the number he had pulled from his database and he said yes. I can only assume he wanted me to correct his number and thereby give him a legit credit card number with expiry and the security code on the back.

The Caller addresses you as Mr. "insert your lastname here" or Ms. "lastname" and can obviously get your address through the phone book. Do not fall for readily available information as being verification that they are legit!

I've since reported this to the OPP but given that the number appears to be some cover number I doubt it's traceable. My only advise to people is to be EXTREMELY skeptical of phone calls which dangle carrots.