Free Gas Card
Complaint
Robert Chacon
Country: United States
I received a call by a man calling himself Jack Zachwalker. He said if I had a valid credit card w/ at least a dollar on it he could guarantee me a $200 gas card. I would have to pay a fee of $3.90 to get the gas card. He called repeatedly. Now the calls have stopped.
Comments
Liars.
Take a look at their website:
http://www.americanautobenefits.com/
Lots of well-known well-respected logos. But what, exactly, is the relationship between this company and ANY of the companies whose logos they show, and what "benefit" do you get from paying them for a "membership"?
Lies.
" they said had checked our balance in our checking account and they knew we had enough money"
More lies.
"The guy kept saying that my husband needed to complete the verification so they could delete our info"
Lies to get you to say something they can claim was an "authorization" to charge your card.
"We asked to speak with a supervisor"
It wouldn't have mattered. The "supervisor" would have been as crooked as the rest, just more polished.
"We just finished changing all our credit card info"
Good. Block the card number.
They are located mainly in certain countries with the combination of low wages, acceptable accent, adequate education and similar enough culture capable of supporting them, and depending on what function they are serving. At this point, that is mainly India, but also Pakistan and the Philipines, since all 3 have many speakers of English.
More technically capable call centers require higher education levels. If the intent is to present more of an "American" appearance but still at lower than U.S. costs, then Canadian call centers have an advantage.
All of the above countries also show some reports of call centers apparently engaged in scams of one sort or another. Some shady telemarketing operations have employed overseas sites for the main deceptive telemarketing cold-calling (Philipines, for example), with Canadian centers to handle the "account retention".
People, have some common sense and NEVER give out your credit card information to someone you do not know and aren't doing business with. If they wanted to send you a gift card, they would do it without your credit card number. Keep posting about this, keep reporting them!!
http://elamb.org/category/advantage-america-benefits/
"EZ1 Rate report from a reader
September 8, 2008
Hi,
I want to apologize everyone. I am one of the employee working with EZ1 Rate. It is a Scam. Preveiouly it was Value Benefits of America and then its name got changed as Caller Advantage then Super Savings and now it is EZ1 Rate.
This company is situated in India. We r asked to take the Credit Card numbers of customers saying tht it is just an identification number but it is a very important numbers of cards.
after taking the numbers the card is charged of any amount and then after every month the card is getting charged. if u read this then pls sumone launch a complaint against this company. many r the ladies and old people who give us the credit card numbers so easily.
i m giving the name of the company who is running it is Silgate Solution. it is india one branch is in Delhi in gurgaon another 2 branches r in Mahaashtra in mumbai. if u want the complete address then check out for the silgate call center in yahoo else visit www.silgate.cc
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Captn G · 88 weeks ago
These people called me and began to offer a $300 card for gas that I could use anywhere. I said fine, but I am NOT going to give them any credit card numbers.
First I talked with one guy then another female came on, they give you a song and dance about how they only need the numbers off the FRONT of your credit card and that those are NOT your account numbers, suuure. So I started looking for old cards that where not valid anymore and wasted there time as they try to charge $1.95 each time you give them a card number.
DO NOT give them any valid credit card numbers. As others have posted they will just begin charging you for anything they want.
Oh and IF you do want long distance service, you can get it from a legitimate company for a lot less than $60/month.
This one is a SCAM all the way.
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Details from ex-employee:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/telemarketing-companies/silgate-solutions-lt/silgate-solutions-ltd-complai-zc953.htm
Fraudulent telemarketing warning from the Wilmington, MA Police Department, (978)-658-3331. They were getting a lot of complaints because one of the numbers used for fraudulent telemarketing had a Wilmington area code.
http://www.wpd.org/telemarketingscam.html
"Telemarketing Scam
The Wilmington Police have investigated continuous complaints regarding a telemarketing company using the number 978-570-2232. This number is not a Wilmington, Massachusetts phone number even though it has a Wilmington exchange. Even when searched utilizing any number of internet databases available, it appears to be an actual Wilmington number.
Complaints have come in from across the country to our police department regarding this number. Our investigators have worked with the Attorney General's Office and have issued subpoenas and have gathered only some basic information due to the less than honest business practices being conducted. Due to the international scope and actual physical location where the number was sold to and being operated, we have no jurisdiction.
978-570-2232 is one of many numbers purchased by Telephone Management Caller ID in Portland, Oregon. The company actually using the phone number is Silgate Solutions in Mumbai, India. Silgate is the telemarketing company.
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Complaints against that number, starting in Oct. 2009, include Do Not Call violations, and scam calls.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-978-570-2232
"Raf
17 Dec 2009
This seems to be a credit card scam since they are asking for only $2 or $3 to pay by credit card to give you $300. They are targetting elderly people. We got a call. I have asked them to put us on Do-NOT-Call List. Still, we got more calls. How can they be stopped.
Caller ID: SGS"
"1-978-570-2232
22 Jan 2010
They are a very well planned out scheme. yes they called me before saying i won a trip. Bogus!!! Sent me stuff from fed ex from some guy. That guy that sopposedly sent tha package. I called him an he said some one opened a fed ex account in his name an does not no who it is. But they sent me a Bogus check in the mail. DONT answer the phone!
Caller ID: Willmington, MA
Caller: SCAMMERS"
Website:
http://www.silgate.cc/career.htm
Looks like in this case fraudulent calls are confirmed to be coming from India.
http://www.wpd.org/telemarketingscam.html
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Telemarketing Scam
The Wilmington Police have investigated continuous complaints regarding a telemarketing company using the number 978-570-2232. This number is not a Wilmington, Massachusetts phone number even though it has a Wilmington exchange. Even when searched utilizing any number of internet databases available, it appears to be an actual Wilmington number.
Complaints have come in from across the country to our police department regarding this number. Our investigators have worked with the Attorney General's Office and have issued subpoenas and have gathered only some basic information due to the less than honest business practices being conducted. Due to the international scope and actual physical location where the number was sold to and being operated, we have no jurisdiction.
978-570-2232 is one of many numbers purchased by Telephone Management Caller ID in Portland, Oregon. The company actually using the phone number is Silgate Solutions in Mumbai, India. Silgate is the telemarketing company.
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