I've got scammed by this organization called Platinum Club. Probably they employs goons to check out the inexperienced users on sites like Craig's list (which I posted my ads). I got the email inviting me to verify my age on verifysafely.com. They asked for credit card information but it said that verifying age would be free so I thought I would check it out.
So here's the confirmation email that definitely reveals the organization's obvious scamming purpose (my personal information has been omitted)
Dear [email]
Thank you for your participation in the Platinum Club Free Lifetime Membership offer. Your credit card has not been billed. You can access your content by visiting:
Http://www.platinumclub.com/latenight
Your Username is: [email]
Your Password is: [password]
Partner Reference: *
Sales Reference: *
Please retain this information for your records, as you will need it for any customer service related issues.
*Free Lifetime Membership Offer*
In order to take advantage of the Free Lifetime Membership Offer you must do the following:
1. Complete the registration process for at least two affiliate partner offers.
2. Provide proof of acceptance of the affiliate partner offers by forwarding the confirmation emails that you received from our affiliate partners to [email protected]. You must forward the confirmation emails from the same email address that was used to sign up for the Free Lifetime Membership Offer. It is your responsibility to configure your email and/or spam filters so that you are not prevented from receiving the affiliate partner confirmation emails.
3. Complete the above-mentioned requirements of the Free Lifetime Membership Offer within 48 hours of your initial acceptance of the offer.
If you do not accept two affiliate partner offers and provide email verification within 48 hours, your credit card will be billed $39.95 for access to dollargo.Us which gives you great discounts on hotels, travel, rental cars and more. You will continue to have premium access to platinum club premium as long as you remain a subscriber to dollargo.Us. The charge will appear on your credit card statement as dollargo.Us 2138634607 and will automatically renew monthly until cancelled.
You will receive another email shortly that contains important account information regarding your participation in this promotion.
*customers service*
Our customer service agents are available Monday-Friday 9am-5pm Pacific Time. Please visit our Website at:
Http://www.dollargo.Us
Contact US
Call Us at 1-866-712-3827 (U.S. Customers Only)
Or email us at
[email protected]
None of the contact information above is valid. Trust me, I have tried all of them. The site dollargo.Us doesn't exist, and it means there's no way you can cancel your membership or do anything with that.
I have tried to cancel my membership on Platinum Club through this link: http://www.platinumclub.com/customersvc/? P=cancel_search
After you submit your email and password, the following lines appears:
"You are currently a member of dollargo.Us.
Click here to visit dollargo.Us customer service to complete your inquiry."
Like I said, dollargo.Us does NOT exist, which means there's NO way you can cancel your membership.
It hasn't been 48 hours since I received the email, but this is obviously a scam, and it needs to be stopped before more people are illegally charged.
Jason
Richmond, Virginia
U.S.A.
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