United Alliance corp processed a voucher on my Checking account in the amount of $29.95. This happened at just the right time to over draw my account and I incurred $50.00 in overdraft fees. I called the number on the voucher and was told they would refund the $29.95 in 3 to 10 business days and that they had nothing to do with the actual charge, they were just the clearinghouse. They gave me an IP address of 64.12.116.11 as being the source of the voucher - I checked on this - it has something to do with AOL, but I couldn't find more info. I called my bank - I must go see them in person to file a complaint and pay an additional $30.00 to post a stop payment to avoid this happening again - so now my total loss will be $109.95 plus a bunch of time.interestingly... The only people who make out on this entire deal is my bank - they end up getting $80.00 for doing nothing. And, EVEN MORE INTERESTING is that when I researched this, I found that a great many of the other folks that have been scammed also had overdraft charges to pay. It seems way to convenient that these charges are happening when folks accounts are close to zero; makes me wonder if this goes a lot deeper than just a normal scam.
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