9011, Report:
#17384
Posted Date:
Mar 22 2002
Consolidated Media Services Ripoff and Suspected Credit Fraud ripoff thieves Smyrna Georgia
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one taken in by this scam of all scams that, unchecked, may cost you thousands of dollars.
I was recently contacted by a telemarketer and informed that as a preferred credit card holder at my bank I had been entered in a drawing for as much a...
Entity
Consolidated Media Services
Categories: Media
9012, Report:
#17275
Posted Date:
Mar 21 2002
Palmetto Marketing, Inc. Magazine scam...young man promises jobs, opportunity, sex, drugs Coral Springs FL
Last night, a friendly young man came to our apartment door. I wasn't wearing a shirt, so my roommate answered the door. From what I heard over the TV, he seemed to know the visitor and seemed to know that he was selling magazines. My roommate is a very social guy and meets alot ...
Entity
Palmetto Marketing, Inc.
Categories: Mail Order Services
9013, Report:
#4561
Posted Date:
Mar 16 2002
USA Magazine Exchange gift ripoff *UPDATE ..BBB liars, no help at all!
During the Christmas season my husband received a phone call from the USA Magazine Exchange. They promised him a gold watch worth $200, so he said that he would take the magazine subscriptions. They did not advise him of any kind of cancellation policy, nor was there any in any of...
Entity
USA Magazine Exchange
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
9014, Report:
#16651
Posted Date:
Mar 13 2002
First Freedom Financial Bank TOTAL CREDIT CARD RIPOFF Rolling Meadows Illinois
First Freedom Financial Bank offered me a credit card over the phone and deducted the application fee from my bank account.
They also charged a monthly fee for Services (money off offers etc).
I never received the card. Their 800 number is rarely answered. I called about 50 ti...
Entity
First Freedom Financial Bank
Categories: Credit & Debt Services
9015, Report:
#16193
Posted Date:
Mar 12 2002
Financial Selections Methuen MA has shady business practices. *UPDATE ..useless book with no information!
The Company Financial Selections is selling a product right now called Passport to Financial Freedom. I know I sound a little peranoid, but as usual, I am suspicious of this company. I bought the book with my ATM card, but went to the bank to have my card number changed today. I do...
Entity
Financial Selections
Categories: Home Based Business
9016, Report:
#16291
Posted Date:
Mar 08 2002
Freedom Homes ripoff con artist fake ripoff Hickory North Carolina
About 3 years ago, we moved to N. Carolina to establish a home. Renting wasn't looking so good so we were told to look into Mobile Homes, their cheaper and easy to get. Well we did but the salesman Bruce told us that the home he had to show us was NEVER lived in and was a show model...
Entity
Freedom Homes
Categories: Manufactured Home Dealers
9017, Report:
#13345
Posted Date:
Feb 28 2002
Do Not Subscribe through NSS Magazines Ripoff
I ordered some trial issues of 3 magazines through NSS Magazines. I was informed that I would not have to actually subscribe unless I was satsfied by the magazines I had received during this trial period. However, I got my credit card bill and found out that I had been charged for...
Entity
NSS Rewards Cont Serv
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
9018, Report:
#15204
Posted Date:
Feb 26 2002
NSS Magazine automatically charged my credit card
Today I noticed a charge on my credit card for NSS magazine for subscriptions I did not authorize. When I called to speak to a representative he informed me my free subscription for magazines, that I NEVER received, had expired and would now have to pay for future issues. I polite...
Entity
NSS MAGAZINE
Categories: Computer Mail Order
9019, Report:
#15177
Posted Date:
Feb 26 2002
Hughes customer service?....Nawwwww, not hardly!
It's interesting to me the way some,....errr, make that MANY manufacturers, distributors and the like have completely insulated themselves from contact with the public. Hughes Electronics is a good example. With a plethora of '800' numbers, one can only access an endless mailbox pus...
Entity
Hughes Electronics
Categories: Satellite Dish Companies
9020, Report:
#7379
Posted Date:
Feb 22 2002
Palmetto Marketing - National Field Selling Association & Amanda Hood with CoWright Sales another ripoff fraud scam artist
A young lady by the name of Amanda Hood with CoWright Sales sold me a magazine subscription of Ebony on Fedruary 20, 2001. The cost of the magazines were $32 plus $8 processing fee. It looked legit. I wrote her a check for $40 and it cleared maybe 5 days later. There's a website...
Entity
Palmetto Marketing, Inc
Categories: Con Artists