Phone scam
Complaint
Terry Morton
Country: United States
These people called me late at night and wanted to send me a 500$ grocery voucher and 200$ gas card, for $4.95 They said I had 10 days after I get the voucher to reply then they would charge my credit card. Then if I wanted to cancel I could. My wife told me it was a scam and I should hang up, but it didn't really sound like one. I was going to take the 500 dollar voucher and cancel the membership anyway. Got the stuff in the mail and it was 500 dollar worth of grocery coupons and like 8 different magazines that I didn't order for like 4 yrs!!! They charged my credit card 2.95 before my wife saw a few scam alerts on the web and alerted me to it!! Bottom line if it sounds too good to be true it is!!!
Comments
They typically charge $58 a month, and only shutting down your account will stop it, whatever they promise.
Better immediately contact your bank to close your account or block your card number to prevent fraud, or they will start charging you a LOT MORE than $2.95.
Their "offers" are deceptive, generally failing to disclose both the full amount of charges, and additional terms and conditions that render their "gas vouchers" or whatever, worthless, so their charges are fraudulent.
They lie about everything, even claiming they are "in Phoenix". They are in India.
The only way to stop them is to immediately contact your bank to block access to your money, by closing your account or blocking your card number due to impending fraud. In addition, file fraud disputes against any charges they have already made, due to their fraudulent misrepresentations. Your bank can reverse charges if you dispute promptly, under FRB Reg. E or FCBA.
After reading the above complaints, I closed my bank account and put in a fraud claim in for any possible future charges for Ultimate Savers Plus and Central Rewards.
Going forward I will not be sharing any of my information with calls received. If it sounds to good to be true...it most likely is to good to be true. Follow your voice within.