Phone calls
Complaint
cstewart
Country: United States
Earlier this evening i recieved a phone call from a sarah barker, she was either asian, or some other deep accent that i could not understand. She was very hesitant to give me her phone number, but not hestiant to give me the company name. she said she is based out of grove utah, and that i was eligable for a government grant for school as long as i paid the 1.87 shipping fee for the paperwork. At that moment i knew it was a scam. Government grants dont make you pay for anything. Also if it were true she would not have been so hesitant to give me information. Her "supervisor" name was daisy possom.... If you recieve a phone call from these women they are huge scam artists. They proceeded to tell me they were a company of the better business buereau. YEAH OK??? so i continued with their scam and said that if they were a business of the better business buereau then they needed to send me information as well as the liscense of their business. They declined me the information and there for i hung up.
Comments
Dispute unauthorized charges through your bank, and block the card number or close the account due to fraud to prevent additional fraudulent charges. Follow up with a written dispute or fraud affidavit sent to your bank's dispute address.
Do NOT waste your time trying to get your money back from any scam through the scammer. Always immediately file a bank dispute, as that is usually the only way you will ever get your money back. If you leave your account or card number active, you can expect additional monthly charges, probably around $58 to $150, until you get wise and shut it down. The couple buck charge was just a teaser to get your account number, and a test that it was valid.
The game they will play is to try to delay your bank dispute past the 60 day FRB Reg. E or FCBA dispute period, after which your bank will be unlikely to be able to get your money back. To do this they will use various excuses, like "mailing an information packet" that never comes, "cancelling your membership" but they lose the "cancellation" so monthly charges continue, requiring you to get, and send in, a "refund request" that never has any effect, having to call a "refund number" that is ignored, or the cancellation "lost", etc...
File fraud complaints with FTC, your state AG, and at www.ic3.gov