THIS INFOMATION COULD SAVE YOU THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
If your new to the internet marketing game you need to read this carefully and absorb it 100% or you WILL get scamed NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!
Im not a complete novice in Internet Marketing but I almost got caught recentlly and this is how it went down.
First I purchased a web site and hosting from a well known internet guru. The site went up and live in due course and I started to drive traffic using my tried and proven methods, I even get a few sales. Then I recieve a call from a guy in L.A asking how its going and that he works directlly with the guy I purchased the site from, we go through the methods that Im using and so on he passes on some info and then tells me he's calling to offer me one of only a handfull of places where they will take over the running of my site and also build another site for me fully seo'd and definatlly capable of making over $10,000.00 a month. All this for $1,500.00 usd, seems like a pretty good deal.
Now at this point I'm interested but I'm just about to run out the door to get on a flight that were allready late for so I tell him I'm interested and ask him to call back in a week.
Over the next week he calls frequently I recognise the number and dont pick up. ( stuff him I think, Im on holidays with my family).
The day we return he calls and we resume our previous conversation how much money this programe is going to make ...and the biggie, how much extra time I will have with my family.
Now heres were it all go's bad . He gets my card number from me, 'to carry out a credit check' and tells me he's just e mailed a basic contract outlining the T.O.S and I should sign it and get it to him without delay.
Well Im not sitting in front of my computer so I wait 'till I get home. When I open this contract up and read it the service is NOTHING like was explained so Im thinking that they sent the wrong contract, oh well these things happen Ill send him a message and deal with it tomorow.
Then whilst Im on I go in and check my card balances to see how much we spent on our holiday...
THEASE PRICKS HAVE MADE MULTIPLE DEBTS TO MY CARD TOTALING ALMOST $6000.00 UNTIL THE CARD WAS MAXED.......
It's now too late to do anything about it, I have a really bad feeling and Im petrified as what my wife will do to me (or not do to me) when she finds out Ive fallen for this apparent scam.To say Im spewing would be a gross understatment......BUT I have a big ace in the hole ...They DONT have the signed contract from me so I foward it to a lawyer friend to have a look at to see where I stand.
The next morning theres a flurry of phone calls, first from my friend who just says straight up "DONT SIGN THE CONTRACT" as it locks you in pretty tight and theres pretty much no way of exersising your right of refund if it all goes bad. As there is no contract between them and myself and I have not recieved any materials or products the charges are not ligit and border on fraud.
The next call is to my card supplier that pretty much backs up what I allready know and the next call is from my new best mate in L.A and I let him in now uncertian terms of what I have found out and I demand a full refund to my card . The refund still took quite a few more emails and calls but it came after a another 10 days.
LESSON 1. DO NOT!!! EVER..NEVER GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER TO ANYBODY OVER THE PHONE....EVER.
LESSON 2. DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING UNLESS YOU OR YOUR LAWYER HAS READ IT THOUGHLY. YOU WOULDNT BUY A SMALL BUISINESS FROM THE WEEKEND CLASSIFIEDS WITHOUT CHECKING IT OUT FIRST WOULD YOU?.
LESSON 3. WHEN CONSIDERING A NEW VENTURE DO THIS, OPEN UP GOOGLE AND TYPE IN THE NAME OF THE PROGRAME YOUR CONSIDERING AND ADD SCAM AFTER THE NAME LIKE THIS 'BLABLABLA SCAM ' .DOING THIS WILL AT LEAST LET YOU KNOW IF THE PROGRAME OR COURSE OR WHATEVER IT IS YOUR CONSIDERING IS A RORT.
LESSONS 4. THROUGH TO 10 SEE LESSON .1... I CAN'T STESS THIS HIGHLY ENOUGH
Please do these 3 things and you may not get stung and with luck we can put some of these parasites out of business.
If one person reads this and is saved then this piece has done its job.
Regards to all
Brad Collins
http://www.trunetincome.net/
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Thank you. I got ripped off by Gary Baker of JEM publishing for $500 bucks. I'm putting up a Hall of Shame website to expose the hype monster cheats that give the rest of us marketers a bad name. Good Luck
ReplyDeleteLinda Fausset
I am one of the victims, although 2 years ago, they did not send a contract at all, they simply sent a quotation to sign. I found out later that the signature tied me to the terms and conditions on their website, which according to them, was the same as signing a contract.
ReplyDeleteI was scammed for $15,000 before the quotation was even emailed, and was pressured to sign it immediately & fax it back. I received NONE of the services promised by the salesman, including the seminar that was scheduled for Australia. They didn't even turn up (without notice).
I placed reports and complaints all over the internet and to date I have over 60 people who fell victim to these scammers, who often prey on the disadvantaged (eg, stroke or cancer victims) and the elderly (one guy is 91!) promising that they will run the site for them and earn them up to $30,000 a month. One guy, aged 87, was scammed for $40,000.
I am currently working hard towards bringing these con artists to justice. I have a blog devoted to this scam and also have an attorney on the case. I would appreciate it if you direct any victims to me, Gail, at urlybird@gmail.com. Thanks for your help.
I have been scammed by this same person. $5,000. I called the card center and they cancelled my card immediately.
ReplyDeleteOne point to think about. By just having the card number, in legal terms, is it possible to debit the card with an amount? I believe it needs that CVV code right?
If this is true, I never gave him my CVV code. So how was it possible? The only way to supply the CVV code to credit card center for payment is to use your CVV code. And how do they get it? I suspect that they already have it when you paid for it for that website that you purchased from. They kept your CVV code. This is against the privacy law. Think about it.