I first received a certificate guaranteeing that I had won 1 of 4 prizes in Sept. I was told in order to claim my prize I would need to sent them a check for 498. I then received some magnetic business cards and keychains worth about 75 dollars.
I then received a call from a Ms. Bradford stating that I had won the big prize, I asked her what she had meant. She faxed me a drawing payout list of 175,000 dollars to be given away and claimed that I had won it all.
On 9/26 I sent a ckeck for 2898 to JGB as a by-in to receive my prize and JGB would throw in a camera that I could use to sent them a picture of me to use in their promotion. They also included a Philadelphia Eagles jacket for good measure.
At this point I was being promised money, that I had won, but still nothing had arrived. I received a call stating that the original gift that I had won was the Trip for Two. When I received the information from the travel agent on the trip, I had to pay over inflated prices for the room and stay a certain number of nights. This trip was not really free at all.
Another call came in November claiming that I was now going to get a bigger prize. I would now need to send them another check for 2898. I did! I was promised that Chrismas would be a very happy time. Chrismas came and nothing. I called repeated times and finally talked to Chris Cousins who told be to be patient.
In Janurary 2006 Chris called again. He claimed I was going to Vegas free and that I was the star of the show. I would be very happy. I tried to get him to tell me what I had won, I also told him that I had spent nearly 10,000 dollars so far. I stated that for JGB to send me to Vegas that I had won a lot more that that. One little catch was that I would need to send a final payment of 2898 for baseball hats. I did! I couldn't sleep at all so I went on the internet and started doing searches on JGB/scam and ripoff, which let me to this site. I found enough info that I immediately called the bank and stopped payment on the last check.
My initial inquires into JGB didn't find anything, but as soon as I included the words ripoff and scam, all kinds of reports popped up.
Please don't fall victim to this company. I would like somehow to get my 6000 dollars returned. This company plays with the rules but there a countless people who have been taken advanted of.
Jim
Pa.
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