First Data Services By Cardservice International
Electronically forge your signature to "prove" you agreed to fees you never knew about. Create new fees at will and take the money right out of your account
- 11-06-2008
- 17
This company gets a scanned signature when you apply for a merchant account, then they "sign" your name to anything they claim you agree to - even tho' you didn't agree to it. They send you many pages of fine print, which say basically that they can do anything at all with your money and your checking account, change their rules and increase or add fees whenever they want.
They collect your SSN, bank routing numbers, everything they need to have power and control over you - and you give it to them because you think they are a ligitamate, trustworthy finance business partner, enabling you to take credit card payments. But then they take total and blatant advantage of you and your money after you've agreed to their fees. They invent new fees at will, and take it right out of your bank account whether you know about it or agree to it or not.
They continuously increase their fees. I have a month-to-month contract. Nothing was ever said about an annual fee. Now they have taken $120 out of my checking account, calling it an Annual Compliance Service Fee.
Here are places we can go to file complaints and get these people investigated and STOPPED... Ftc. Gov, click Consumer Protection, then click Division of Financial Practices. Here is an excerpt from that site: "The advertising of financial products or services, including subprime credit cards or stored value cards. Consumers are entitled to accurate and complete information about costs and other key terms before they enter into financial transactions: it allows them to compare offers and make informed purchasing decisions. The Division challenges the deceptive marketing of credit cards, stored value cards, leases, and other financial products."
Go to your state's Attorney General office and register a complaint.
Ask who in your state governs credit card companies.in FL it is the Office of the Comptroller of Currency.
Then there's FBI. Gov; click on Report Internet Crime.
Here's a great link to report fraud online:.
And the BEST help on Cardservices international and getting your money back is posted on this website by the Editor of usacomplaints.com It's posted in the rebuttals
Company: First Data Services By Cardservice International
Country: USA
State: California
City: Simi Valley
Address: 4348 E Los Angeles Ave
Phone: 8055820015