Mike
Scottsdale,#2Consumer Suggestion
Sun, November 18, 2007
Kemmel good job at making them eat some of the S&*t that they scam every day!
Kemmel
Yulee,#3Author of original report
Thu, November 15, 2007
After a few months of bantering back and forth, I convinced EZ Check and Ipayment to close my accounts without additional fees. They both understood where I was coming from, and accepted my explanation regarding the fraudulent agreements made by Vericomm. Meanwhile, MBF leasing and Lease Finance Group, LLC, who is CIT Financial and MBF Leasing under another name (plus many others), were repeatedly calling my home and business and hanging up or not responding to my answers to their calls. My wife and I started responding in kind and calling them every time they called us, and hung up or made them pass us off to another extension and then hung up. After a while, they recognized our number and just would not remain on the line. Incidentally, you have to press "1" to continue in English, or wait until a timer goes through the other languages they accept. That's ridiculous for an American company. Other language requests should have to push a number. I found the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) judgement against Certified Merchant Services, Ltd., from East Texas, and sent them copies of the applicable results with letters stating my requests to stop the agreements and the calls. I also made a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, who was quickly responsive to my comments. I got no response from MBF or LFG until late October (eight months after the beginning) when I decided to buyout the original agreement with CIT/LFG to preclude credit problems. After that was done, I was told that the agreement with MBF had been terminated due to a law suit. I had not filed one, but I guess someone had. I still do not know what the suit is. I hope the FTC has started a proceeding to really get them all. I intend to continue my case with the FTC and press for more action against Vericomm and the lease company even though my contracts have been terminated. To get the data for the FTC case, go to their web site and search for the Certified Merchant Services case by name. It is extremely revealing, and makes me wondr why these companies still do their scam without action being taken against them. We need to make more noise about this with the FTC. They will evenyually get them, I hope. Good luck to one and all in their actions.