I was contacted by a Manny Orsini who represented himself as a loan officer for 1st Century Mortgage. He said the company had applicants in my area who would be getting a mortgage and needed Homeowner's insurance. He said he would provide me with these names as referrals. I asked, "are you a lead service" and he answered, NO.
I was skeptical but he and his manager assured me that they were a Mortgage Company providing referrals at $10.00 each. I decided to try it for a month.
IT took almost one month for them to begin providing me with information. The majority of the "referrals" were for health insurance which had nothing to do with what I contracted for. I had 2 referrals listed as Homeowner's out of 16 provided: AND one phone number had been disconnedted and the other person said they had no idea what I was talking about and would never give their information to anyone over the Internet.
I immediately faxed them a cancellation form which they conveniently put on thier WEB referral delivery site.
So there you have it, 1st Centruy got me for $600.00 for the first month and gave me nothing of value, they misrepresented themselves and I only hope that so many people read this and learn from my mistake that no one else will suffer.
I also intend to report this Internet Fraud to the FBI's complain center.
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