scammed by voice verification
Complaint
Don
Country: United States
Like and idiot I believed the sales rep who built up this great product but left all of that out of the voice verification. When I found out that it was heavily misrepresented and told him that I did not want the product, he said it was too late and they would develop a website and charge me without my cooperation. This is only last week. The website that they produce will not be acceptable to my company standards and I could lose my dealership. I am sick about this and want to join any lawsuits.
Comments
Instead they deliberately kept it verbal, then changed the alleged terms after supposedly you had reached an agreement. That is the mark of a scam, fraudulently set up from the beginning to force you to pay whatever they are after without regard to what, if anything, they deliver. Don't be surprised if they are actually after "cancellation fees", basically for doing nothing.
"left all of that out of the voice verification"
"he said it was too late and they would develop a website and charge me without my cooperation"
That is an admission that their misrepresentation was intentional, and therefore that any agreement was obtained through fraud and deception. It's "too late" to cancel, but yet they get to change what they are delivering anytime they want. That isn't a "contract", it's a scam, and they have experience at playing it.
In effect, they were intending to set you up for a "bait and switch", to create the appearance of an agreement while "losing" anything that might document what that agreement was. It allows them to sell you one thing, and then deliver whatever "cookie-cutter" website they actually produce. Or as indicated above, deliver something so unusable, you find yourself paying them to go away.
Send them notice by certified mail that any agreement is terminated due to the fraudulent misrepresentation of their sales agent, and that you have filed complaints with your state Attorney General.
They can mitigate any alleged damages they might claim by not proceeding with their sham "website", as apparently they haven't done anything yet. Maybe it wasn't even their goal to produce a useable website.
ATT owns Yellowpages.com
You may be dealing with some third party company, that may or may not have an agreement with ATT to develop and sell websites connected to them. If they withheld who they really were, pretending to be and have the reputation of yellowpages.com/ATT, that would be a material misrepresentation that if you had known the truth, you would have decided not to do business with them, or certainly not without a written contract.
Deceptive cons depend on magnifying the strength of their position through uncertainty. Collapse the uncertainty, and it's just naked bluff.
Christine
anyways don't EVER go through voice verification, even with the big companies if you can prevent it. i've even had Verizon's win back program scam me but i believe they hired a 3rd party telemarketing company to get them back accounts they lost who were probably getting paid per switched back clients where the 3rd party just scammed their way to get their incentives.
SOOOO many scams out there, and its a shame since our government seems ineffective in reducing them.
I was shouting and cursing him out by the time my boss finally came and just hung up on him.
I definately have no authority to authorize any cahrges of website for our company. I would like to find out who they are. Something so petty as this may not be worth our time to go after - but we have enough legal eagle in our nest to make it hurt.
Jamie - another dupe
Stop talking to them or writing to them.
You are just telling them you are a sucker who can be pressured if they keep at it.
They can't carry out any of their threats, as they have to hide their location across the border in Canada.
The NJ collection agency uses the pretense that they "don't know" whether the "accounts" are real, even playing the same misrepresented or doctored "recordings", but they have been reported doing this so much it's not likely they will step beyond making threats, since if they did damage your credit, that is the line they would have to cross for you to sue them, and they clearly know it.
The "everyone" who says they "can't help you" sounds like you are talking to these scammers themselves. They aren't going to do anything but try to swindle you. they are liars. Stop talking to them.
File fraud complaints with FTC, your state AG, and at www.ic3.gov
If contacted by the New Jersey collection agency (ACA, collections for scammers), file fraud complaints with FTC, your state AG, the New Jersey AG.
I fyou get a fraudulent invoice through the US Mail, file a mail fraud complaint with the US Postal Inspector.
If you get anything that refers to a US address, like a mail drop at a "virtual office" in NYC or Nevada, (say, a "virtual office" run by Regus), file complaints for acting as a front for a fraudulent scheme against Regus with the US Postal Inspector, and the state AGs of that state.
Stop worrying about your credit. Freezing your credit doesn't stop a collection agency from posting to it anyway. If they actually damaged credit, the thousands of small businesses reporting their scam attempts would have reported it long ago.
If they did damage your credit with posting fraudulent "debts", that would allow you to sue for damages under FCRA, in federal or state court, and if you win, the court can award you damages AND your attorney fees. They might even set themselves up for punitive damages, based on their long history of fraud, or RICO treble damages with a class action lawsuit.
That is exactly what these "collection agency" scammers don't want, and they have been very careful to not cross that line, In past years, when their scams were more in the line with collecting on shady "payday loans", they got sued several times, which is why they now run this scam against small businesses, since it's safer to avoid the traps of FDCPA and FCRA.