3731, Report:
#1029088
Posted Date:
Jan 13 2002
Readers Digest Telemarketer Ripoff! I said no thank you & they sent it anyway - along with a bill!
On the way home from work one day I get a call on my cell phone. I answered and this snobby,moronic voice was on the other end. Hello, my name is______, Im calling from readers Digest and before I could say anything she ran into her script.
OK Ill listen I thought,I was a telemar...
Entity
Readers Digest
Categories: Telemarketers
3732, Report:
#11258
Posted Date:
Jan 11 2002
Ambus Registry Inc. Scam Artists
This company calls you to verify your company's address for their business registry listings. Not until you've hung up the phone...then receive an invoice for $400.00 do you realize that the verification of your businesses address just cost you $400!
The telemarketer makes you t...
Entity
Ambus Registry Inc.
Categories: Telemarketers
3733, Report:
#11077
Posted Date:
Jan 09 2002
Inyerquest Travel Agency telemarketer for the company Protel Marketing reveals this is a Rip-off warning senior citizens in Texas
I was hired to work for the company known as Protel Marketing, here in Arizona. The job required me to call the people in texas and set-up an appointment for the travel agency's survey and discussion meeting. This is for people between the ages of 40yrs. old and 75yrs. old. This is ...
Entity
Interquest Travel Agency - Protel Marketing
Categories: Travel Services
3734, Report:
#11006
Posted Date:
Jan 08 2002
MCi Worldcom wireless ripped off telemarkerter lies
I was ripped off by worldcom.wireless. I had received a telemarketer call in Dec. to try their new digital cellphone. I told him that I already have a contract with voice stream that won't be ending till maybe Feb. He said that I wouldn't have to activate the phone till then that w...
Entity
Worldcom.Wireless
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
3735, Report:
#10840
Posted Date:
Jan 07 2002
First Freedom Financial and Premier Savings Credit Card Scams Thank you Ripoff Report
I too was scammed last June from this company. It seems they go by several different names...toll free number is the same 800-950-1934. They took my 225.00 back in July 2001. I contacted the Chicago Better Business Bureau in September. They contacted FFF and was told that my mo...
Entity
First Freedom Financial
Categories: Credit Card Fraud
3736, Report:
#10435
Posted Date:
Jan 02 2002
National Magazine Exchange Settlement. Oregonians sweepstakes offers with caution
Attorney General Hardy Myers today alerted Oregonians to the importance of treating telephone solicitations and sweepstakes offers with caution. In connection with this reminder, the Department of Justice announced a settlement agreement with Special Data Processing Corporation, a F...
Entity
National Magazine Exchange
Categories: Mail Order Services
3737, Report:
#5477
Posted Date:
Dec 29 2001
Tax Ready rip-off ..guaranteed bunch of bull *UPDATE ..thank you Rip-offReport.com, full refund on it's way!
I joined National Audit Defense Network (NADN) about November, 1999, and have been pretty satisfied with them. A year later, a telemarketer from their sister company, Tax Coach dba Tax Ready, called me.
I bought a package (via American Express) from Tax Ready: for $495, they woul...
Entity
Tax Ready
Categories: Financial Services
3738, Report:
#9773
Posted Date:
Dec 20 2001
I switched to MCI & got ripped off - and now I can't make long distance calls- you get what you pay for!
I succumbed to a telemarketer's pitch for MCI telling me that I would get a lower rate than what I was paying with AT&T.
Little did I know that they would render my phone useless for calling out of state. 3 weeks after I switched , I tried to call a relative out of state and got...
Entity
mci
Categories: Telephone Companies
3739, Report:
#9265
Posted Date:
Dec 14 2001
MCi WORLDCOM WIRELESS ADMITTED SLAMMING - won't honor contract!
JULY 2000 I WAS SOLICITED AT WORK BY A WORLDCOM WIRELESS TELEMARKETER. I VERY CAREFULLY WROTE DOWN EVERY SINGLE FACET OF THE PACKAGE BEING OFFERED. I WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO A WOMAN WHO CONFIRMED ALL THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY PROMISED. I GAVE MY CREDIT CARD # AND PAID FOR THE PHONE AND RE...
Entity
WORLDCOM WIRELESS
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
3740, Report:
#8820
Posted Date:
Dec 07 2001
North American Savings Center-No Refund Ripoff
I was contacted by a telemarketer for North American Savings Center. He explained to me that if I sent in $397 I would be approved for a credit card worth $15,000-$40,000. If, I was turned down by 3 banks. I was told all I had to do was send copies of the turn-downs from the bank...
Entity
North American Savings Center
Categories: Credit & Debt Services