Really bizarre phone call - says I won a free iPhone 5S

So I'm just curious if this has happened to anyone else - on September 19th, I received a phone call from an unknown UK number.
After taking the call - I was informed by a young male caller that I had won an iPhone 5S due to the fact that I had downloaded iOS7 the night before. It was extremely bizarre as the caller went on to claim that this was a giveaway/contest associate with Apple & congratulated me on winning the prize.
I told the guy that I was not interested & he suddenly provided me with my email address & my birth date (and obviously he had my phone number). He went on to say that he did not require any credit card information and would only need me to provide a shipping address (because it was not provided on my iTunes account ... I know this is incorrect because my mailing address is definitely on there). On a whim I provided him with an address I had access to, that was not connected to any of my personal accounts. After hanging up on the guy, I called Apple right away to verify if this was in fact a scam.
Apple confirmed that there are no contests/giveaways of the sort and asked me if I had entered any external "giveaways" recently. The answer is no - I had not. Because I had not given the person any important personal information, I let the situation go and went on with the day and pretty much forgot about it.
Then, a day later, I received a text message from the same individual noting an Apple order number. After calling Apple - it was verified that this was in fact a legitimate order and was being shipped to the address I provided within 2 weeks.
At that point, I decided to just see what happens next.
I called Apple on October 1st to verify if the order still existed (as October is when the iPhone 5s was to ship) and was notified that the order had in fact been terminated. This is when I came to the conclusion that the individual probably wanted my mailing address to either steal credit card information ... or something along the lines. Knowing that I did not provide a real address - I once again tried to forget the situation happened.
This individual just texted me informing me that I had cancelled the order & to confirm if I still wanted the prize.
And now I feel extremely paranoid. This seems to be an insane amount of effort to try and scam information & I want to know if I should advise the person who's address I provided to change all their locks and get an attack dog.
So just wondering if anyone else has experienced this ... ??

Sisi J wrote:
I think they must have gotten my info from Facebook. I did post that I got iOS7 up there .. And the rest of my info would be readily available.
I guess Ill see how this plays out - if I do receive a cheque ... I don't know. I may just toss it in the trash lol.
It's just so mean. When I received that text with the apple order confirmation number ... It was actually birthday. I had this joke with the friends that Apple celebrates my date of birth by launching phones on it - which is you know all silly jokes. But the fact that someone would use a day that's so special to you against you ... Well. The world is just messed up! Lol
If you actually get anything from them, in all seriousness, call you Police and let them have it.  Anything that they can potentially use in any way to toss such people into prison is ideal to my mind.  Physical things can often be useful to investigators in ways that most of us would never imagine.

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