Our Information Being Sold

Many times often we would received unknowing promotion calls from some corporate with number withheld usually, mostly insurance promotion which collaborate with Banks/TelCo giving special promotion on insurance coverage. Most of the common phrases as below :-

a) hi, you name has been picked by our computer......

b) congratulation !! you are the few being selected in line with our company anniversary....

c) hi sir, we can offer personal loan with special interest rate...

so on and so forth....

When asked, where did you get my contact number ? The common answer would be "from my superior".

This left me in doubt that my information could has been sold to many companies by some unscrupulous people out there. This people have nothing better to do but hacked into million accounts and sell them in bundles of 1000 for some money. What the hack !!!

Many have get conned or scammed by this kind of marketing trick. That include my brother being victimised where he got realise after a few months of transactions in direct debit of credit card, lost few hundreds buck there.

How would you deal with this kind of "crank" calls (i would named it) ?? as this bunch is obviously being trained and strikingly play on words to deceive you.

I would usually returned with "This is police station you are calling"......