rip off
Complaint
sandra milbourne
Country: United States
They state you will receive a $1000 card to purchase brand name groceries. After waiting 10 days, and still no card I called the company only to find out I had been mislead. There is no $1000 card! You get $1000 worth of coupons on line for $19.95 a month charged to your credit card. No thank you! Now waiting to see if any charges appear on my account.
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Do NOT wait for charges to appear. Contact your bank immediately to block the card number now, due to fraud. If charges do show up, you dispute them as fraudulent, and also block the card number to prevent additional fraud.
Contact your bank or credit card company immediately to dispute the fraudulent transaction, and close the account or block the card number to prevent additional fraud. Follow up with a written dispute or fraud affidavit sent to your bank.
Your bank can reverse disputed charges if you dispute within 60 days of the statement date of the statement showing the disputed charges, under FRB Reg. E (for checking account debit card or other EFT), or under FCBA (for credit cards).
Watch your next few statements carefully, to make sure they don't roll this "automatic charge" over to your new card number.
File fraud complaints with FTC and your state Attorney General, and at www.ic3.gov
(809)479 8121
I have not called it yet but, hopefully it will get them out of our banks and hair also. I received a letter from 'budget source' I don't know how or what the rub is but it has the same subscriber #
I'm pretty sure its another scam they slip in. I hope this helps and they set us free. I'm demanding my money back wish me luck
The free in your offer won't be as you set it up so it will be 4/6 wks 2 arrive. By then you'll take a mo. chrg of $24.95 the! rules r must have active membership 2 get free stuff promised sent 2 u!! A simple scam a bait and switch. I've lost 2 much so I can cancel 2 morro
Patti Calhoun Portland, Ore.
Ps I will tell all i c 2 not test this deal since u get screwed!!!
The dvds came, no problem. I really like them. Then I started getting un authorized charges of $24.95 on my credit card. Happily, my credit card company customer service representative was able to get the charges cancelled. The rep said it is a legitimate business and my case was a disputed charge not a scam. I see from Carole's posting that her credit card company flagged and blocked an identical charge. It must have had all the hallmarks of a scam.
I certainly was scammed! I travel a lot. When a mysterious $1.95 charge appeared on my credit card, I assumed it was some little charge leftover from somewhere, not worth bothering about. Second mistake on my part. Track down any small mysterious charge. It might be the foot in the door for a scammer. Ditto the first $24.95 charge. By the second $24.95 charge, I woke up.
In a 3-way call among the rep, me and someone from WC *MON TASTE 4 SAVINGS 800-916-8329 MN (as the charges appeared on the credit card statement) I found out where they got my credit card number and that the $1.95 charge was an application or enrollment fee. By paying it, I let myself in for $24.95 per month charges indefinitely. The someone said I had agreed to the deal twice on the phone and had gotten a mailing explaining everything.
I never spoke with anyone. I hang up on phone bank calls on my land line and delete and block any such calls that get through to my cell. Does this outfit take a hang-up or no return call for not-a-cancellation? Did the callers falsify their reports when they didn't get anyone? Did they ever even call? I had no reason to keep an eye on the mail for a letter from them. If they ever sent anything, which I doubt, it was recycled with the junk mail.
Something tells me the above scenario is exactly what this outfit counts on. It must work for them often enough to make them money. Had I not requested my credit card company rep to call the 800 number and take care of it for me, I doubt I would have gotten my money back or even been able to cancel this unauthorized recurring charge. I doubt they would have taken my call. But they wouldn't go up against a credit card company.
BTW thanks to tj for his very useful post, more than three years ago, on the practical steps to take when you've been scammed. It's nice to know there are forces for good countering these forces for evil.