Holiday scam

[Xaccers]

Visited dilbert and had a "you're the 100,000,000th visitor" ad pop up telling me to phone a 0800 number to get £1600 off a florida holiday.
Its with sunkissedtravel and they assured me that if I just handed over £698 I'd get a lovely holiday for 4 excluding flights (but they could get cheap flights)

Did a search and there's lots of people who have not recieved their holidays etc so I said I'd have to think about it, they said "well have a nice day" and promptly hung up.

[danielf]

You called them???????????? On the basis of a popup????

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by danielf

You called them???????????? On the basis of a popup????

From work on a free number
I'm not totally daft
It wasn't really a pop up, it was one of those float over images, you know, didn't have it's own window.
How else would I get the details to warn you guys?

[punky]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Visited dilbert and had a "you're the 100,000,000th visitor" ad pop up telling me to phone a 0800 number to get £1600 off a florida holiday.
Its with sunkissedtravel and they assured me that if I just handed over £698 I'd get a lovely holiday for 4 excluding flights (but they could get cheap flights)

Did a search and there's lots of people who have not recieved their holidays etc so I said I'd have to think about it, they said "well have a nice day" and promptly hung up.

Even if they give you the info it is still a rip off. A 3 bed villa will sleep 8 legally and even during christmas it is only £550/week with the company I work for, and a lot of companies rent off the old pre-Florida-boom crap off much cheaper than that. A 6 bed is only £825/week and that will sleep 14. Being as 14 can stay for 2 weeks in a private villa with pool for £1600, £2200 for 4 people is hardly value for money!