A few weeks ago, I saw on my credit card statement, that home-survey-worker.com had charged my creditcard with $ 29.95 for a service they offered for $ 2.95 on the internet, and for around 3 bucks I thought I could try it out and see if I could make some money from home. I am early retiered due to fibromyalgia, so an extra bucks would come handy.
I should have know better... As I said, first they charged me $ 2.95 and the service is a scam when you lock on there web site after locking in. Never mind... Anyway, than they charged me $ 29.95 and lucky enough I saw it pretty soon and called them directly. No problem, a few days later I got my money back and I forgot all about it.
Yesterday I looked at my statement and got a shock... Why didn't I see it 2 month ago? I don't know... Anyway, on my statement I saw $ 29.95 charged my passportforfun.com!!! I never even heared about them!!! So I had a real close look at my statements and saw the same charges end of March, April and May! I was stunned!!!
It was late last night, when I realized that and I got on the phone direct this morning. I did wrote to my bank yesterday and they replied that they will send it to there fraud department and I will hear from them in 10-14 days. It took me around 15 min. And two persons at passportforfun.com, and they promised me that they will refund the money. Hope that will be the end of it!!!
But it is a lesson for me to be very, very, very carful about paying by credit card and check your statement at least twice a month very carefully (even if you don't use it that much, like me).
And of course yesterday I checked out passportforfun.com on the internet and found this web site and today I went to home-survey-worker.com and surprise, it brought me to this web site again.
Hope I can help others to get there money back and stop fraud like that.
I am German, and something like that could never happen there, but that is an other story. I only wish, that the American would be capable to stop this kind of fraud and give the consumer more power/protection, like in Germany.
From now on I will and recommened this to everyone here to check every company you want to purchase from over the internet with BBB (Better Business Bureau). That can help a lot I think.
Thanks for reading.
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