Complaint Review: Columbus international escrow services

 In August of 2015 my husband and I were visiting Cabo San Lucas Mexico. We were approached by two gentlemen that wanted to talk about a new adventure not a timeshare program but a vacation program. So we figured why not seeing that it wasn't a timeshare presentation we might as will see what they had to offer. We were tired of paying timeshare maintenance and not being able to go where we wanted to go and when we wanted to go. We were told that we could buy 190 weeks not pay any maintenance fees and no restrictions. They told us the fee would be right around $50,000. We told him that we had two timeshares and they came back and told us that they would buy them from us for $89,000, they said that our money would be put in escrow at Chicago title in the USA. We would also be told that it would take between 120 days to 140 days to complete this transaction. Within two weeks we were contacted by Bloomberg who told us that they would have buyers set up to buy our timeshares and the money would be held in escrow.

After a year went by of talking back-and-forth and emailing they came to the conclusion that they couldn't find a buyer for us,. I demanded my payment that I paid to escrow from my bank because it was on a MasterCard and I was given my money back after proving that I was ripped off and that that company never did but they said that they were going to do. So in October 2016 I get a phone call from Lyle Williams from Columbus international escrow services, he claims he is the one that is dispersing payment of our timeshares. He says I need to wire money to Mexico for the bank fees in order to get my money that was offered to me for my timeshares 111,000.00 He said I needed to pay bank fees to Mexico of $4465, I was to pay that in order to get my money wired to my account. He needed proof that I do the wire so I was to take a picture once the money was wired to the bank in Mexico . I did so he said that my money would be guaranteed to me within 24 to 48 hours. Well guess what, it's been a week now I've put many phone calls in many emails in and no response nothing . I must say these people are good at their game but I think the FBI needs to get involved with this group and shut them down.