I was contacted by Biltmore Who's Who and someone gave me this spill (a man) that I was nominated to become a member. This guy had great lip service and all the tactics of a scam artist now that I think of the conversation. It sounded great especially if you were interested in starting a business.
Anyway, I decided to join and gave my credit card number and was charged $378.95 a one time fee to join and I was also to get two round trip tickets. He told me I could upgrade to a more expensive one for almost $700. I declined. He said I had a month and could upgrade and would still get the 2 round trip tickets. I felt ok, because I have heard of Who's Who before.
When I got my 1st billing statement the amount was $378.95. The next month I got another billing for $199.00. I was mad and tried to contact the company leaving messages and no one called me back. I got to thinking this is a scam or something is wrong. There were to be not other charges according to the spill from the man I spoke to. After 3 calls to the company and no return calls, I called my credit card company and reported this unauthorized $199.00.
They said that it could be disputed but no guarantee the funds would be returned. I was very upset and said "how could someone charge on my card if I did not authorize it?" The CC company said there was nothing they could do but dispute the charges.
I finally went on line to check further and file a report to BBB and looked up this company and surely I found SCAM after SCAM and people being ripped off on this Ripoff website. More furious I called my CC once again and reported the $378.95 charges to a fraudelant scam company. They once again said they would try to dispute again. I asked what were the chances of them getting into my account again. The CC company said any online merchant can at any time. I said so "I was not protected?" Then I said I can close my account and no one will get into it since changing the account number is still accessible to merchants. I could not believe what I was hearing.
So these companies continue to scam and rob people and there is nothing we the consumer can do!!! I fail to believe that and aiming to go public, get a lawyer, contact the FBI or whatever to STOP this easy way of making a dollar for some greed written scamming company. This is not right!!!
To this day I have never heard from this company.
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