Central Rewards 200$ gas voucher scam
Complaint
Adam
Country: United States
Last weekend I eat at Arbys and decided to call the number on the back of the receipt to get a free sandwich. I got directed to a free 200 gas vouch deal supposedly because the lines where busy. Anyways I gave them my credit card info for a one time fee of 2.95 to receive my 200 dollars gas deal. The Indian people just kept directing me to more deals that cost money: magazines and other things, so I said no and the line went dead and a week later I have a bill for 2.95 on my card and a letter talking about a monthly fee of over 29 dollars to have a bunch of magazines! I am piss and want to sue the [***] who suckered me into this. I have read other complaints... this has got to stop... people do not deserved to be scammed like this!
Comments
There are other complaints reporting that they get routed to this scam after calling their bank, insurance company, or utility. This may indicate either that this scam has obtained 800 numbers 1 digit different from well known companies' customer service numbers, or that they may be spoofing and rerouting U.S. company PBX systems to trap unwary callers.
Dispute all charges through your bank as fraudulent. If you dispute within 60 days of the statement date of the statement showing the disputed charge, your bank can reverse it, under FRB Reg. E (for checking account debit cards and EFT), or under FCBA (for credit cards).
Block your card number, and watch your bank statements closely so you can promptly file fraud disputes should any charges slip through.
Contact FTC to report this criminal fraud ring.
In the mean time, they keep taking real money from your bank account, at around $50 a month. Numerous complaints report they disclose none of this before charging consumer accounts, selling this "offer" as "free" or "costing only $4.95", or whatever.
There are also many complaints reporting they are fraudulently pretending to be making an offer connected to "VISA" or "MasterCard", "your bank", "your insurance company", or "your utility company". Some complaints report being connected to them on calling their own bank, insurance company, or utility company (PG&E energy rebate customer service, for example), so they may have obtained 800 numbers one digit different from these large legitimate customer service numbers.
Haven't seen ANY report that anyone ever got anything, other than obvious shills.
Fraudulant scam, nothing more.
https://complaintwire.org/Complaint.aspx/9ec4acRVjAACvgjOPGNbbA