My story is the same. But instead of crying over spilled milk, I believe is best that I share what I found about this company in an attempt to help some of you recover your money.
I called this company twice today, first I spoke to Maxine and then I spoke to Steven, who would not give me his last name, but gave me his emp. # 1005. He claims to be a supervisor, and when my questions struck a nerve, he hung up the phone. After a little research, this company does not have a bank or financial institution charter number with the New York's Office of the Comptroller of Currency, nor with the N.Y. State Banking Dept.
Their company is not listed in the State of New York Division of Corporations, nor in the Government of Canada official website, but it is listed in the BBB's website; the direct link to this company's complaint info with the BBB is http://www.newyork. BBB.org/nis/newsearch2.Asp? ID=1&strBCode=01210000&ComID=0121000000067055. The map link on the BBB's website does not find the address, but a plug in of their address on mapquest.com quickly mapped it. As you will see, the information on the BBB's webpage above also gives their address in Canada and the owner's name; it also gives a few other telephone numbers.
My law firm does a lot of complaint investigation and resolution with the BBB, so take it from me, they do get involved. Perhaps not to everyone's satisfaction, but nevertheless to some avail.in my opinion, it will be difficult to start a class action suit, but it wouldn't be impossible. Enough people would have to be willing to do it, but then again, the likelyhood of any recovery would perhaps be inversly as good as the scam.
For those of you who have been victimized by these people, you should try and dispute the transaction with the bank, especially if no more than 45 days have elapsed from the first time your account was debited by alluding to the fraudulent nature of the debit, and that IT WAS NOT authorized. DO NOT FOLLOW THEIR PROCEDURES FOR A REFUND!!! You will forego your window within which to act and possibly get results from your bank. Besides, your bank knows the origin of the transaction and can trace it.
In a perfect world, all of us would get their money back and this company will be prosecuted for fraud. But, since the likelyhood of that is not good, the best alternative is to find out as much as we can from this company and forward this information to any of the major TV networks or any other media agencies (canadian or U.S.) who would be interested in doing a story and exposing this scam. Perhaps the satisfaction that we prevented others from falling for this scam will be sufficiently gratifying.
Best of luck to all!!!
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