Scam Scam Scam I say!!!
Date: Sat, 04/15/2006 - 18:58
A couple months ago I got a call from a company claiming to be a company helping me to get my money back. Ok let me start from the top. About 2 years ago a company called Consumers Electronic called my job on our private line and talked me and aonther employee into paying for a scam. They promised us a computer, cell phone(camera) and a $500 shopping spree for only 295.00. We gave our information and waiting for these things in the mail. Lone and behold all we got was certificates that we were to sign up for these different services. HOW COULD WE when we didn't have any EQUIPMENT!!! :evil: So when I called them I got a very rude lady who told me I will get my money back just send in the stuff and she hung the phone up. So I did I drove about 25 miles to the UPS office and sent everything back. Four, Six Eight weeks went by and I couldn't get anyone to answer their phone. So I just said forget it. I went on the BBB website and filed a complaint and yes they were not registered w/ BBB and we known for scam. Ok a couple months ago this company claimed to be a "RESOLVING" company for them to help me get my money back. Ok this guy called and was talking so fast I told him to be quit and go slow. He told me he could get my money back he needed to verify all info. He had my account #, birthdate, and knew the amount of $ that was owed. He read all this to me on the phone. SO I was like ok but..... all the time he kept interupting me. SO he told me he had to record me to verify and get approval to refund the money. Each time he recored me it sounded like he was saying they were going to debit my account. I kept stoping him and asking what did you say? After the 5th time he got so mad he yelled at me. I was like geee ok guy it is goin' be alrite. Anyway I felt fishy after I got off the phone. I looke them up and YES RED RED flag :oops: They were on the BBB website and guess what one of their alias was that old company. To make a long story quick they inded took the money out but my credit union worked so fast they did a late draft and got my money back. I had to close my accounts and reopen. Thank the Lord for good honest people (like my bank) who will go that extra mile for you. Why the next day our local paper there was an article in the paper about these people being a scam. Can you imagine how many people they actual messed up. :arrow: :!: So I have learned that no one should have your bank info but you and your bank. Sometimes bad things happen to learn a valuable lesson in life. IT hurts to know that there are people out there who will take from hard working people and they take it so easy and don't even feel bad. Why do they think someone owes them. Grow up, get a job, get out from up under ya moma, and get a life. (sorry i get so mad at this kind of stuff) I have a 9 yr old and I can just imagine how it is going to be by the time she grows up.
I'd say file a complaint with your state's Attorney General's of
I'd say file a complaint with your state's Attorney General's office. That's what they are there for, situations such as the one you described.
In Virginia there's a "prizes and gifts act" and also a "home so
In Virginia there's a "prizes and gifts act" and also a "home solicitation sales act" that would apply in this kind of situation. You might want to check your state's consumer protection laws to see whether there's anything you could use to get relief.
If you used a credit / debit / eft transaction to send the money, you can still get most of it back. Give written notice to the bank that you paid for the goods and they were never delivered. (Keep it simple. Tell the truth but don't blab it.) Give them a copy of the statements on which the transaction appears with the transaction you want backed out highlighted. You've got sixty days from the date of the statement to do that. You're liable for the first fifty dollars.
Scary stuff. There are so many scams out there, and when you ne
Scary stuff. There are so many scams out there, and when you need the money, it's so easy to want it to be for real!
So Virginia-Legal-Defense, You are saying if I get my info/pape
So Virginia-Legal-Defense,
You are saying if I get my info/paperwork together I can still get my money back after all this time?
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Yes, or at least most of it, if you give notice to the bank with
Yes, or at least most of it, if you give notice to the bank within sixty days of the date of the statement containing the offending transaction. You may be liable for the first fifty dollars, depending on the bank's policy.