Complaint Review: SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES AKA. FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS - COLTON California

You took a step in the right direction checking with the Better Business Bureau but after being scammed by a car dealership last year I found out that a good standing with the BBB only means that the company is paying their dues and simply responding to each claim filed against them. To illustrate, the car dealership who ripped me off (and numerous others as I found out after the fact) had a good standing with the BBB because they had responded to all claims against their company. One thing I did notice though is that the number of claims against their company was astronomical. In contrast, the car dealership who I dealt with after the sale (many repairs were needed on the vehicle due to the dealer selling it to me in an unsafe condition and so I took it to a dealer who I felt I could trust) has a bad standing with the BBB. This company only has 3 complaints against them, but they failed to respond to one of them, giving them the bad standing. The BBB is a great idea, but has become corrupt and does not act in the best interest of consumers. I have found this particular website to be of much more use in deciding who to do business with and who to avoid doing business with. I hope you get your money back!

You took a step in the right direction checking with the Better Business Bureau but after being scammed by a car dealership last year I found out that a good standing with the BBB only means that the company is paying their dues and simply responding to each claim filed against them. To illustrate, the car dealership who ripped me off (and numerous others as I found out after the fact) had a good standing with the BBB because they had responded to all claims against their company. One thing I did notice though is that the number of claims against their company was astronomical. In contrast, the car dealership who I dealt with after the sale (many repairs were needed on the vehicle due to the dealer selling it to me in an unsafe condition and so I took it to a dealer who I felt I could trust) has a bad standing with the BBB. This company only has 3 complaints against them, but they failed to respond to one of them, giving them the bad standing. The BBB is a great idea, but has become corrupt and does not act in the best interest of consumers. I have found this particular website to be of much more use in deciding who to do business with and who to avoid doing business with. I hope you get your money back!

You took a step in the right direction checking with the Better Business Bureau but after being scammed by a car dealership last year I found out that a good standing with the BBB only means that the company is paying their dues and simply responding to each claim filed against them. To illustrate, the car dealership who ripped me off (and numerous others as I found out after the fact) had a good standing with the BBB because they had responded to all claims against their company. One thing I did notice though is that the number of claims against their company was astronomical. In contrast, the car dealership who I dealt with after the sale (many repairs were needed on the vehicle due to the dealer selling it to me in an unsafe condition and so I took it to a dealer who I felt I could trust) has a bad standing with the BBB. This company only has 3 complaints against them, but they failed to respond to one of them, giving them the bad standing. The BBB is a great idea, but has become corrupt and does not act in the best interest of consumers. I have found this particular website to be of much more use in deciding who to do business with and who to avoid doing business with. I hope you get your money back!

You took a step in the right direction checking with the Better Business Bureau but after being scammed by a car dealership last year I found out that a good standing with the BBB only means that the company is paying their dues and simply responding to each claim filed against them. To illustrate, the car dealership who ripped me off (and numerous others as I found out after the fact) had a good standing with the BBB because they had responded to all claims against their company. One thing I did notice though is that the number of claims against their company was astronomical. In contrast, the car dealership who I dealt with after the sale (many repairs were needed on the vehicle due to the dealer selling it to me in an unsafe condition and so I took it to a dealer who I felt I could trust) has a bad standing with the BBB. This company only has 3 complaints against them, but they failed to respond to one of them, giving them the bad standing. The BBB is a great idea, but has become corrupt and does not act in the best interest of consumers. I have found this particular website to be of much more use in deciding who to do business with and who to avoid doing business with. I hope you get your money back!

They filed the following rebuttal to the above Rip-Off Report:

Their email: [email protected]
Their name: The Fraud Chick

Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion

Rebuttal:
The grant scam is a very lucrative scheme. Tons of people want to jump on the money for nothing bandwagon. You can find out what grants the government is offering for FREE at your local library. In larger libraries you can look at the foundation directory that lists how to contact them and what the giving parameters of each one are-also free.

You can also get all this information for free on the Internet.
Unfortunately the fraudsters have tied up all the search engines with their unscrupulous marketing of their own grant directories. So the consumer has to get past the schemers to get to the real deal.

Sometimes this grant finders promise you that the foundations give grants to pay debt, finance a new home, start a dream business-all nonsense.

These companies usually count on victims giving up on $30 - $50. As a matter of fact when these shysters sell the idea to other cons they brag about how the "sucker" won't pursue a measly $50 or less.

These cons always promise a money back guarantee but I have yet to come across one that did. They have to be forced to do so by the authorities.

You need to jump on a bandwagon and report them to the attorney general of California at http://caag.state.ca.us/consumers/mailform.htm.

Besides telling them that they failed to give you a refund you can tell them the scam falls into an advanced fee scam. What this company is doing requires them to register with the AG and post a $100,000 bond. The AG will jump on them if they are not.

Here is some helpful information to give the authorities:

Your scammer, Successful Strategies, also goes by the names: Financial Solutions USA, Free Cash Grants, Free Grant Giveaways, National Publishers, as well as Successful Strategies. They can be contacted at (818) 887 - 6469, (909) 697 - 4792, (909) 474 - 5047 and (909) 359 - 5169.

I believe that you have an excellent chance of recovering your money through the AG's office. Successful Strategies will be sorry they ever tried to rip you off.

Good Luck
The Fraud Chick