This was an e-mail I sent to the company, and it explains it all..."The date is Sunday, February 21 at 8:35 PM Pacific Time. Please cancel my order. I will be calling my debit card company and letting them know that this is a scam and they need to not
release any more funds to you or any one else I don't regularly use. If I do receive any attempted charges from you on my card, I will copy this entire e-mail and send it to the Better Business Bureau in every single state, the Attorney General's office in every single state, and anyone else I can think of that may be able to take some sort of action against fraudulent companies such as this.
The reason that I now know this is a scam... I regularly check Craig's List in my area, for the things being sold and such. Someone claimed they were selling a treadmill at a great price. I wanted to buy it. The next day I got an e-mail about it saying that I was the second person that e-mailed "her" about it and if the first lady wasn't able to pick it up, did I still want it? This was from a lady named
"Nancy" who's e-mail address looked like it was through her job, at a dentist office. "[email protected]". Seemed legit enough. She sent me an e-mail the day following that and said that the treadmill was picked up, if it's any consolation she works for a dentist office here in town and they have been giving their patients promo codes for a whitening system called "Celebrity White Teeth".
"She" said only use one please since they are supposed to be for patients, but she hopes I like it, and let her know how it turns out. I fell for it. There was a link included in that e-mail (I still have the e-mails from her) to a page that went to "Celebrity White Teeth". Looked totally legitimate, so I ordered one of the samples and used the promo code for $1 shipping for my husband with his debit
card. I ordered another and did Not use the promo code with my debit card. Because this person said they were supposed to be for patients only, and I didn't want to take advantage of what I thought was kindness. So I gladly paid the $3.95 for another sample for myself with my debit card. No problems. I got an e-mail saying they have placed the orders... Well tonight that exact same treadmill is up... Got me thinking "well, this is strange!"... So I checked my e-mail to see if perhaps she mailed me saying it was available again for some reason. Nope. I went to the e-mails that "she" sent me, and clicked the linked again. The link that did go to a "Celebrity White Teeth" page previously. Now it says nothing about Celebrity White Teeth, it's now a totally different page that goes to "Alta White
Teeth". So I Googled "Alta White" and the first site that popped up (on Google) I clicked, my computer anti-virus software started going crazy saying that it blocked "Trojan Horse" viruses, which is virus that allows the hacker to steal your personal data.
So I got scammed... I paid $1 on one card and $3.95 on another. Fine, whatever, I should have been more careful. I can accept paying $5 for a mistake I made. But I am telling you now, if you attempt to bill either card again for even 1 cent, I will make it my mission to expose this all over the place. I am not kidding. The F.B.I.'s Internet Crime Division will be my first stop on the huge list of
complaints I will file. Plus, there IS a dental practice in a nearby city to me that had a Dr. Wilson (but no employee named "Nancy"), and tomorrow morning I will be calling them and letting them know that someone is using their name to scam strangers."
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