1001, Report:
#380271
Posted Date:
Oct 11 2008
Clicksmart is a clever internet advertising scam. Austin Texas
Our company was contacted by Clicksmart last spring. I was led to believe Clicksmart was owned by Yahoo and they were competing with Angies List and Service Magic. I was told their contractor page would appear in the top listing on Google and Yahoo. I had many questions and concern...
Entity
Clicksmart
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
1002, Report:
#342799
Posted Date:
Oct 11 2008
Creative Management Crooks Houston Texas
I own a condo at the Villas of Westador for 4 miserable years.I got my finnacing through Fannie Mae. - I had good credit and put 10% down payment with Mortgage Insuranace. When my tennat was trying to buy the condo I looked on the Harris count appraisal District and became suspious ...
Entity
Creative Management
Categories: Property Management
1003, Report:
#380093
Posted Date:
Oct 10 2008
Cellar-Blowout I ordered an unlocked cell phone from this company and paid for 2nd day shipping. Until this day I've still not received it and they say they are still filling my order. Agoura Hills California
I ordered a Motorola U6 PEBL Black Unlocked GSM Cell Phone, and Blue ant Wireless X3 micro Bluetooth Headset Black. I paid these people $158.89 total for these two products, plus two day shipping and have not received them. With this company you do not get to talk to a live person...
Entity
Cellar-Blowout
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
1004, Report:
#1034510
Posted Date:
Oct 10 2008
Island Yellow Pages They offered a free self-design web site with a listing. Unclear billing practices including automatic relisting.. No viable support. Tampa Florida
I was contacted by a representitive of the company encouraging me to place an ad with the Island Yellow Pages. This included a free self-design web-site I could make changes in the test or pictures at will. He told me after we had agreed on a fee of $59.50 a month I would be contact...
Entity
Island Yellow Pages
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
1005, Report:
#373736
Posted Date:
Oct 09 2008
GRANT MASTER ALL YOUR COMPLAINTS SAVED ME . THANK YOU FOR GOING TO THIS WEB SITE AND TELLING YOUR STORY UTAH Internet
Hi everyone ,Onthe 15th of this sept I saw a ad on free gov grants , just send $2.95 for shipping and we will send you conformation by email , I said ok. I do this all the time. I waited for a while. I did not see anything all day, I said to myself ,I will give it till morning . T...
Entity
grants-reviewed.org/1/grantmaster.html
Categories: Grant Writing & Research
1006, Report:
#377543
Posted Date:
Oct 07 2008
Idearc Media - Verizion Yellow Pages promised three months free, but didn't deliver, then charged us for those three months; Filed a complaint and never heard back DFW Airport Texas
I am an owner of a small business with 1 employee. While I was out of town Idearc Media called and told my employee that we would receive 3 months free listing. We did not get the free listing, but instead received a bill for $1,295.64. They also promised that from this listing w...
Entity
Idearc Media
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
1007, Report:
#368093
Posted Date:
Oct 04 2008
ILD Teleservices unauthorized third party billing on phone bills Ponte Vedra Beach Florida
I have reviewed numerous telephone bills and found numerous unauthorized third party billing by ILD Teleservices. www.ildtelecom.com
Corporate Information
Fred Lloyd
Vice President, Strategic Planning
ILD Telecommunications, Inc.
5000 Sawgrass Village Circle, Suite 30
Pon...
Entity
ILD Teleservices
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
1008, Report:
#378270
Posted Date:
Oct 03 2008
The Easy Yellow Pages Watch Your Phone Bill Las Vegas Nevada
I have phone service through AT&T. I saw an extra charge on my bill for 14.98. It was from The Easy Yellow Pages Inc. I called them and they said that someone had accepted a promotion for an ipod, laptop or a gift card for getting their service. That was not true. At first I s...
Entity
The Easy Yellow Pages
Categories: Internet
1009, Report:
#377793
Posted Date:
Oct 02 2008
ATT Yellow Pages Rip off and misadvertising web pages contact St. Louis Missouri
Contracted ATT to make me a web page and help with my web pages.
!) First they never called me to see what i wanted on my web pages, and when it did finally got done, it looked like I was a furniture salesman instead of Pest Control
When I tryed to contact Stacie Fusco on her ...
Entity
ATT Yellow Pages
Categories: Sales People
1010, Report:
#377278
Posted Date:
Sep 30 2008
Blueyellowbook Internet Advertising Swindle Nationwide internet
Blueyellowbook is an internet search engine and advertising, marketing company. They will list your business without any input from you, then call you and invoice you for the ad. When you refuse to advertise with them, they will tell you the invoice is for the past 12 months. Aft...
Entity
Blueyellowbook
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
1011, Report:
#377247
Posted Date:
Sep 30 2008
Data Source Solutions Internet web consulting company rip off scam Wilmington Delaware
This company sent us a bill for $495.00, since we never heard of them we called to find out what this was. I was told they use our name for search engines on the internet. I investigatied this further only to find out they have our name listed like the yellow pages with no link to...
Entity
Data Source Solutions
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
1012, Report:
#224025
Posted Date:
Sep 30 2008
Classic Personal Loans, Carlos Herrera, Manny Loan Shark Ripped me off Stoled my car Still getting Parking Tickets sent to me Ripoff Rancho Cucamonga California
Manny aka Carlos Herrera aka Classic Person loans in the yellow pages. Ripped me off. When I tried to pay the loan back he wouldnt return phone calls. He still has my car registered under my name. I am getting Parking tickes sent to my home address! Please warn everyone about this...
Entity
Classic Personal Loans
Categories: Loans
1013, Report:
#137787
Posted Date:
Sep 25 2008
Selmedica Healthcare, Selmedica, Inc., Key Brands, Inc, Perry M. Belcher Companies, HealthyRightNow This non-existant company has a B B B rap sheet a block long!!! Cordova, Bartlett Tennessee
The dictionary defines fraud as Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.
Some time back in 2003, we discovered this company. Northrop Scientific they called themselves at the time. We started looking into them.
We couldn't find anything....
Entity
Selmedica Healthcare, Selmedica, Inc., Key Brands, Inc, Perry M. Belcher Companies, HealthyRightNow
Categories: Alternative Health
1014, Report:
#313399
Posted Date:
Sep 24 2008
United American Insurance United American Lies to their employees about training and leads. Columbus Ohio
I resently worked for United American. The company has you go to a seminar in a hotel for the interview. First, they are only looking for bodies to fill the seats at these seminars. If you can pass the state license exam you are hired. To get people in the seminar they call pote...
Entity
United American Insurance
Categories: Sales People
1015, Report:
#375445
Posted Date:
Sep 23 2008
GOAM MEDIA - Josh Greene - goamericanyellow.com BEWARE OF GOAM MEDIA SCAMMERS Miami Florida
If you are a small business be very careful when talking to Yellow Page companies that call you. There is a company called GOAM Media that called our Tulsa office in March of 2008 and represented themselves as the Yellow book Yellow Pages.
They told our office supervisor that th...
Entity
GOAM MEDIA - Josh Greene - goamericanyellow.com
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
1016, Report:
#375310
Posted Date:
Sep 23 2008
The-Internet-YellowPages.com Scammed me hook, line and sinker Virginia Beach Virginia
This company calls you to confirm if your physical address is different from your billing address, asks if you are the owner or person who authorizes the payment of invoices, states that they are just confirming an invoice for service and tells you they are recording the conversatio...
Entity
The-Internet-YellowPages.com
Categories: Telemarketers
1017, Report:
#240097
Posted Date:
Sep 23 2008
Dream Resurfacing - David Avalos Ripoff Dishonest Deceptive Illegal Fraud NoShow Contractor Not Licensed Consumers Beware San Antonio Texas
We contacted David Ringo Avalos in March of 2005 as part of a major remodeling project for our home. We were working with two other builder contractors for new siding and windows. We also were working with a Landscape Architect to redo our yard. We explored options for installing...
Entity
Dream Resurfacing - David Avalos
Categories: Builders & Contractors
1018, Report:
#371922
Posted Date:
Sep 23 2008
Debt Jurisprudence ,Debtjurisprudence.org Debt Jurisprudence Chesterfield Missouri
I paid over $7000 to Debt Jurisprudence to in their words wipe out my unsecured debt. I am in the program for 3 months and then I get sued by the bank.....so I ask Debt Jurisprudence if they would provide a lawyer for my situation.....Debt Jurisprudence said sorry we don't have an...
Entity
Debt Jurisprudence
Categories: Bait-and-Switch
1019, Report:
#374775
Posted Date:
Sep 21 2008
Fullfillment Can not find a contact number for them as they continue to ship to me unwanted merchandise this AcaiBerry garbage, and continue to bill me. Davie Florida
I can not find a contact name or phone number for this scam artist with his constant shipping of a product i don't want. According to the add i read it was a trial package being sent to me. Who knew that this was a scam to contiue shipping this with no other contact information avai...
Entity
Fullfillment
Categories: BBB Better Business Bureau
1020, Report:
#373775
Posted Date:
Sep 17 2008
Internet Yellow Pages Internet Yellow Pages Scam Phone Order Virginia Beach Virginia
The-internet-yellowpages.com called our business and spoke with an assistant manager telling him that they needed to verify information about an order. Not aware that no order had been placed, as it is not his job to place orders, he answered yes to questions that sounded legitimate...
Entity
Internet Yellow Pages
Categories: Advertising / Deceptive
1021, Report:
#212798
Posted Date:
Sep 17 2008
Garage Door Service Company, Americas Choice Overhead Door, Affordabel Garage Door Services, Fradulent Inducement, Deceptive Trade Practice, Fraud, Rip Off, Feedback, Review, Experience Denver Colorado
Yesterday, 9/25/06, my garage door broke and I foolishly called the company with the largest ad in the Yellow Pages - Garage Door Services, AKA:
America's Choice
America's Choice Door Company
America's Choice Overhead Door
Garage Door Services
Garage Door Service Company (amo...
Entity
Garage Door Service Company, GDS, PDS, America's Choice Overhead Garage Door Company
Categories: Garage Door Companies
1022, Report:
#373232
Posted Date:
Sep 16 2008
Star Capital Securities Inc Don't go there!!!It's a SCAM Des Peres Montana
Recieved a letter today, I won 125,000USD and have a check in hand for 4875 , it states call them first before depositing and some money is needed for the government tax.
First I called Commerce bank to see if such an account exists, they said no, went onto yellow pages and no Sta...
Entity
Star Capital Securities Inc
Categories: Security Services
1023, Report:
#372412
Posted Date:
Sep 12 2008
CHECK PROCESSING BUREAU ENFORCEMENT DIVISION CPB: How they almost got away with it!!! New York New York
My husband and I have recieved this letter stating that he had wrote 2 hot checks (adding up to $654.48) to a company in Fl. Well its a store that he use to go to but the only thing was that he hadn't lived in Fl. for 6 yrs now. We called the store but they couldn't give use any inf...
Entity
CHECK PROCESSING BUREAU ENFORCEMENT DIVISION
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
1024, Report:
#371184
Posted Date:
Sep 09 2008
Business Development Institute, USA Search Engine Optimization fraudulent ,ripoff Las Vegas Nevada
Business Development Institute aka USA Search Engine Optimization contacted me in april of 08 offering front page exposure for my failing Construction Business, I told them I didnt have the money at that time. They convinced me that given post dated checks , I would get the exposure...
Entity
Business Development Institute
Categories: Internet Services
1025, Report:
#181964
Posted Date:
Sep 09 2008
TLC Plumbing ripoff San Diego California
A. TLC Plumbing Inc.
B. RIPOFF, OVERPRICED, OVERCHARGED, UNPROFESSIONAL, LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES
C. SAN DIEGO
E. CA
I had a toilet that would not completely flush. After TLC plumbimg initially canceled on me, they arrived an hour and a half late the next day. After tel...
Entity
TLC Plumbing
Categories: Plumbing