My daughter received a post card from "Great Fun" indicating they are increasing her monthly membership fee from 9.99 a month to 10.99 a month. This was a surprise to her, because she had never heard of them.
Upon checking her past bank statements. (She never does a bank reconciliation or this would have been caught earlier) we noticed the $9.99 charg has been taken out monthly for a long time. When i call the number on the post card, they tell me that she signed up for Great Fun when she bought a plane ticket on CHEAP TICKETS.com in March. They say she responded to a $10.00 rebate. This in turn automatically signed her up for GREAT FUN. My daughter has no recollection of this transaction.
Be advised, that thru my many phone calls, I have found out that GREAT FUN is an affiliate of CHEAP TICKETS and ORBITZ. Cheap tickets told me that they did not give out her personel info, but that is a lie, because she never gave her info to GREAT FUN.
They (GREAT FUN) have stolen $210.00 from my daughter so far. I have cancelled the membership, but from what I have been reading, it looks like they may still try to continue debiting her. My daughter has had several bounced checks and many overdrafts in the past year and she always claims she had the money in her account. (again, no bank reconciliation done monthly) Her credit rating is in the dump!!! All because of these bottom feeders. I would love to physically like to get my hands on them!!!
Anyway, make sure anyone reading this does a bank rec every month to protect yourself from these scum bags.
Good news!!! My daughters bank has agreed to reverse all of the charges from TLG Great FUN. She will need to close her account as soon as the funds are redeposited, she will need to buy new checks and everything else we can think of to renew her identity.
This scam is not just robbery, it is also identity theft. Who is to say these bottom feeders won't find something else to do with there ill gotten account numbers.
CHEAP Tickets and Orbitz are complacent in this fraud and I have reported all three of these companies to the State department of consumer affairs.
They owe her a lot more than $210.00. Any lawyers want to start a class action? Sign us up!!
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