Er of 2009 I received a phone call at home from a Melissa Bradberry of Turnkey Internet SolIn Septemutions. She described the opportunity to own/lease a 75 store online mall through a program called "greatest shopping mall.com" for the sum of only $15,000.00. It was urgent that I have this mall up and running before the holiday shopping season. I was told what a wonderful and smart business decision this was. All of the work of web site design and graphics wpuld be done by Turnkey Internet Solutions. The payment would be charged to my Bank of America Visa card as two purchases of $7,000.00 and $8,000.00 the same month for a total of $15,000.00. I was told that only a credit card could be used for this purchase and was asurred that I would recoup this fee quite easily by earning a 15% sales commission from the 75 stores anchored by Macy's and Walmart. I purchased the mall and decided to call it " My Galleria Mall " and was very excited about this venture.
The following week Melissa called me again to explain that by purchasing offline advertising to promote the mall I would get much better results and put me in touch with a girl named Desire who explained the offline program to me. She recommended that I purchase a campaign targeting 300,000 shoppers for $10,000.00.By doing this I would super-charge my mall and increase tthe visitor volume substantially. I purchased the $10,000.00 offline campaign and was told that payment would only be accepted by using my Bank of America Visa card. All the work of addressing and mailing to these 300,000 people would be done by Turnkey Internet Solutions. I would not have to do any of the physical work and the list of mailings would target known proven buyers collected online by Turnkey especially for marketing.
The following week Melissa contacted me again and told me that I would have to buy a domain name for the mall-site as well as a hosting fee. This came to $760.00. I again had to use my credit card for this amount and promptly did so. I was told how excited the staff was about the "My Galleria Mall" website which was almost ready to go live online. So in total Turnkey billed my visa account at Bank of America for the sum of $25,760.00. I was happily anticipating a huge holiday shopping season turnout and printed business cards to hand out advertising my online mall. Everyone I met either took or asked for a card. I was very excited about the return on investment that I had been promised by Turnkey.
It is now February and my mall has not earned one cent of commission as there had been no sales from October through February. Not one sale! I now realised that I had been scammed out of $25,760.00 by Turnkey Internet Solutions and started calling the company for an explanation. I never got to speak with Melissa, Desire or any company official except the secretary answering the phone who said she would deliver all of my messages and requests to the appropriate people at the company. I never received one call back and started to feel the sting of being scammed by a fraudulent company.
I went online and found a site called The RippOff Report and yes, there were multiple stories about Turnkey scamming people. I also checked with the Internet Complaint Board and found even more scam stories as well as learning that the owner of Turnkey Internet Solutions is Mark Knight. I am submitting this outrageous scam to the Riffoff Report and attempting to contact people who have been scammed by this company in an attempt to file a class action lawsuit and put an end to this fraudulent operation. I can be reached by email at mailto:@hotmail.com or on my cellphone at 201-xxx-xxxx. I urge everyone involved in this scam to contact me.
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