Identity Protection Plus
Call saying I owed them money and was to be turned over to collection agency

I received a call Saturday evening on October 12 from someone calling himself David Welch who said he was from Identity Protection Plus and that I was three months overdue on my payments and I would be turned over to a collection agency immediately if I did not pay up. When I asked when I had signed up for this service he said I had talked to someone named Travis on June 5. He said he had that conversation on tape stating I had agreed to pay $43.23 per month for 5 years to protect my identity. When I asked to hear the conversation he said it was over 10 minutes long and that I could hear it if I paid up the past due three months immediately!

There is no way I would agree to this kind of contract since I already have Identity Theft Insurance through my bank. When I told him that he became very abusive and started threatening me. June 5th was only a few days after I returned from Arizona after a stay of of month in the mobile home my husband and I just bought from my Uncle Jerry who sold us the home after his wife (my mother's sister) had passed away in March. The home used to belong to my parents, so I was down there cleaning it out. I drove down there by myself and my husband flew down for a week at the end of the month and then drove back home with me. We arrived home on June 2nd.

After looking at my calendar I realized that I was gone most of the day on Tuesday June 5th and I told him that I did not believe it was me this Travis had talked to. He really became obnoxious after that and was again threatening me with an outside collection agency. The credit card he referred to was one that had been stolen from me and fraudulent charges of over $600.00 had been charged to it. My bank has since looked into it and just sent me a letter saying the charges were definitely fraudulent and the money that had been temporarily returned to my account was now considered permanently returned to me. Once I realized that there were charges that were not mine I had immediately called the bank and had that credit card number closed and I was given a new number. It is my feeling that they had been trying to get payment using that old number and since it was closed they were now calling me with threats.

I am a Fraud Fighter for AARP and have been trained to work with the Minnesota Attorney Generals Office and the FBI to stop fraud against seniors. I am going to turn all of this information over to them and have them investigate this obvious rip-off company. I looked this company up on the Internet and found the report on the complaint from the gentleman from Arizona who had the same experience I did. If I am allowed to do this, I will also make a copy of that and turn it in to Fraud Fighters along with my report. I realize I must get the authors permission to do this. It is interesting that I was in Arizona at the same time he was having trouble with this company. I will report on what my agency finds out about this company and if the FBI and Attorney Generals Office are going to file charges against them. It wouldn't surprise me if they did. They picked on the wrong person when they went after me because I have the means to fight back without having to have the expense of having to hire a private attorney to look into this. I hope they are able to put this company and its aliases out of business and put a few people in jail. Most people don't realize that e-mail is considered mail and that fraud committed by e-mail is the same as fraud committed by regular mail and the US Postal Service has jurisdiction over e-mail and can charge people with mail fraud even though it was done by e-mail. The US Postal Service has even more clout than the FBI when it comes to mail fraud&something I learned in my training as a Fraud Fighter.

I hope people reading this will realize that if they have been ripped off by e-mail they should contact the Postal Inspectors and they can go after the companies who use the internet to defraud people. This happened to me years ago and because I belong to AARP and am very active in the organization I was able to have the Postal Inspectors go after the company that defrauded me. I would never have known they had jurisdiction over e-mails if I had not attended a luncheon meeting about fraud against seniors. It was an eye-opening event for me because I had given up trying to get my money back from the company that ripped me off.

Since this is another e-mail rip-off company I know the Postal Inspectors will be very interested in them. They might already be investigating them if someone has filed a complaint against Identity Protection Services.

Company: Identity Protection Plus
Country: USA
Phone: 8552693126
Site: myidentityprotectionplus.com

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