[Novalug] 500 GB drive 99.99

[Rich Goodwin]

Whoa!!  Sounds to be too good to be true.  And ... well .... in some
respects it is.

I just ordered two drives.  After ordering it, I got an alarming
response:


Residential Address

 
 HELP US SPEED UP YOUR ORDER — WITH
           ONE EASY STEP!

To avoid any processing delay, we'll
need the LAST 4 DIGITS of your
Social Security Number to VERIFY
YOUR IDENTITY ONLY.

We may need voice confirmation from
you. If so, we will contact you by
phone or e-mail. If you need to
speak to our Credit Card Department,
please allow 90 minutes for your
order to process before calling
888-999-8800, M-F
8:00AM-8:00PM — Sat,Sun
8:00AM-1:00PM.

The information used to verify your
transaction is of public record,
provided to us by a third-party.

Now what scares me is they want to verify the last 4 of my SSN via  ....
a THIRD PARTY!!!?!?!??!??!?!

This is a first for me.  Has anyone else seen this?   I won't give them
that so they can call me- not a problem.  That is greatly preferred over
providing this.


On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 09:58 +1200, Mark Smith wrote:
> in case anyone cares, i just noticed this.  sounds pretty good to me.
> 500GB internal seagate/barracuda 7200 serial ata-300 for only $99.99.
> 
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3206259&sku=TSD-500AS4
> 
> it came as part of a requested (non-spam) mailing list i'm on.
> 
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/email/wem1466.asp?SRCCODE=WEM1466TT
> 
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