Tropicana Juice Company Pepsico, drive and earn money program tropicana juice company and michellestewardads@tropicana.com promised us two tropicana juice stickers for our truck at 940.00 a piece and we send them 1980.00 thru western union to pay for our merchandiseand we were promised 300.00 a week to advertise for them Nashville,Tn,Marysville, Oh, Chicago, ILL& etc Nationwide
We were contacted on august22,2014 by Frank Heckard by e=mail looking for people to drive and get paid to advertise for Tropicana Juice company and get paid 300.00 dollars a week to drive for tropicana and use the two tropicana sticker we had to pay 940.00 a piecefor so we oredered two we sent the 1980.00 by western union to Ms Denise Moise of Florida on Sept.13,2014 and Ms. Moise picked the money up from Plantation Fla at 2:31 pm EASTERN time we spoke with Western Union about a refund and they filed a fraud report about this money transfer and they gave me this fraud report for investigators to use to receive pictures of the lady that picked up our money in Fla so they could be found and arrested that file number is 1014238 and western union phone # is 1-800-325-6000 and use that fraud file number of 1014238 to get western union report on this fraud and pictures of the lady that picked up the money in florida and we still have not received no stickers or checks from tropicana juice company as payment nor no refund of the money we have already transferred for our merchandise so all we want back is our 1980.00 we transferred thru western union for merchandise we never received so we want a refund now.
Thank You Tommy D
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FloridaNative
Palm Beach Gardens,Florida,
Tropicana Juice Company had nothing to do with this scam
#2Consumer Comment
Fri, September 19, 2014
You were scammed by someone claiming to be from Tropicana Juice Company, not an actual employee of the company. No one from the actual company would require you to send them money via Western Union to an individual. Some scammer just used the company name to get your attention. That is the tip off that it is a scam: upfront funds wired to a stranger through an untraceable method such as Western Union.
It is one of the reasons that Western Union asks you all those questions prior to submitting the wire to try to protect your funds from scammers. But you also have to use common sense. No legitimate international company is going to ask you for funds upfront to be sent via an untraceable method.
Hopefully you have filed a police report too against the individual that picked up the funds.
Go to the FTC(dot)gov website and read up on consumer scams so you don't get scammed again. That way you know what to look out for and will recognize the pattern these scammers use. Good luck.