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My wife and I arrived at the fan social a little after 3pm, and had to wait in line to get in. While we were waiting in line, there were two girls walking around with baskets, clip-boards, and little sheets of paper, stating that they were collecting entries for the door prize at Wildhorse Saloon. Everyone in the line was writing their name and phone # on the piece of paper and giving it back to them to “enter”.

Fast forward to yesterday when we were on our drive back home from Nashville. I got a call on my cell phone from a person that identified themselves as an agent from “Oasis Travel” – stating that I won a free vacation when I entered the other day. They then rambled on about all of the free nights I won in Daytona, the Bahamas, Fort Lauderdale, etc. They said I also won a free 3-night cruise. I was pretty stoked, but skeptical as well – for obvious reasons. They asked me a few questions to make sure I was “eligible”, and then told me that to reserve the vacation, I had to pay the processing fees – which were $249 for me, and $249 for my wife. I did not give them my number – in fact, the phone cut out and they never called back.

A few hours later, my wife got a call from a different #, from a different “agent” of the same company. They said the exact same thing to her, and asked her for a credit card # to reserve the vacation. She hung up on them.

I later looked up “Oasis Travel” online and discovered tons of fraud complaints about the company – from people that also “won” a “contest”. Here is a list of a bunch of them:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/Oasis-travel.aspx

I looked up the address the agent gave me and think that they also operate under the name “Amazon Travel” as well.

Be careful everyone!!!

Take care,

Doug