The above entertainment industry agency (supposedly) contacted me because of seeing my resume on careerbuilder.com. Since I am looking for ways to make extra money so I took some time to check out their website the best I could and call them.
But, the hitch was, there was a 30 day free trial to use their site (password & ID protected) and you had to provide a bank or credit card number for them for information packet for around $9.95 and the 30 day usage of their site for jobs, and that would be refunded should you not stay active after 30 days or register with their internet talent search agency site.
Well, in a matter of days I was not happy with what I found or how I was treated when trying to reach these people and get answers to questions I had, plus the fact I still never received the information package they promised was mailed out. Enough I said, and immeidately wrote them back to cancel my interest and NOT to debit my account in any way as I declined any interest in belonging to their agency nor wnated to stay the full 30 day trial period either.
Then, when I noticed a debit from my checking account a few weeks later from Searchfor Talent.com. I immediately called my bank and told them the situation and had to file an unauthorized ACH debit with them to investigate and credit that back to my account.
Then, about a week or so after that time, I saw another unauthorized ACH debit on my bank statement but this time from a TrueTravelRewards.com (1-800-613-0322) placed out of San Francisco. I don't know who these peopel are. So I called my bank and placed another costly unauthorized ACH debit complaint against this and then tried to find this address on the internet. When I called the number, all of a sudden, I was sent to a voice mail messaging service for Search for Talent.com, same music, same voice, same everything of my initial complaint! Eventually I was answered and I complained about the debit and didn't want anyone to do this and stop this on our account. So that person gave me another number (1-800-710-4210) and told me I had to call them to credit this charge back. When this man answered I asked him why was this compnay's name and number tied back Search for Talent and why did they take a unauthorized ACH debit from our bank acocunt? He said, "oh they get busy at times so we help them with volumes of their calls and answer for them". Now, is this a scam or what? I demanded why did his organization take this debit and he never really answered, but told me to stop this from continuing I had to either access their website or he could fax me a document I had to fill and sign and fax back. Well, first there is nowhere on his site to conatct them as he told me (I have no access pin or ID), and when I told him to fax me the form diectly, it never arrived either as he promised it would be sent right out. So something very fishy with these people.
I demanded that man to STOP accessing our account as we had no idea who TrueTravelRewards.com was and wanted nothing to do with SearchforTalent.com either, and it made me mad that here, if I had not seen this on my statement, I believe they are one in the same company and trying to act like they are professional just to access your private banking and debit amounts under aliases or false names. We had to close out ATM/Debit card and numbers out and close our account as well, and now have to go through hassle of opening another account and fixing things with the valid few debtors who we allow to access that for payment purposes (AOL, credit companies) and change all our billing information for them.
I think others out there ought to be wary of the above names as I think they are one in the same trying to pull a fast one to access your account under different anonymous names.
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