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I called about a rental car. A woman answered the call. I went through my details. She said she would have to talk to a supervisor because I was going to pay with a debit card. A long wait on the phone and someone named "Jay" said he had a car at $21/day, but it was cheaper to rent by the week. The debit card was going to require a $250 hold and the car was $175 for the week. Then he said if I got a Go2bank card, he would give me a discount. I told him I couldn't get a Go2bank card this day, but if I had it when I returned the car, would I get a refund for the discount. I gave him my debit card bank info. He told me once I was approved, the car would be scheduled for delivery to my house, for which I gave him my address. After numerous back & forth calls, he had excuses, such as "take a call from a customer with a broken down car" as to why he had to hang up and call back. When he called back he said there were insufficient funds in my account. I called the bank as I had recently deposited a large check and thought it might not have fully cleared. That's when I learned the whole thing was a scam. "Jay" had tried to withdraw $1000 from my bank account. Fortunately, the bank picked up on it and sent an alert to me. I spoke to the bank to find out what had happened. I was lucky the scammer didn't actually get any money from me but they did get personal financial information, my home address etc. I looked on line and see that the number I called is the same number others have reported with this car rental scam.