I just want to warn everyone reading this article about this fraud of a company. There are a few names that they go by the one they used when calling me was national choice. Usually when the number pops up on the caller id it will say unknown caller unknown number. The other name that they go by is Advantage America benefits. National choice was the company that withdrew the amount of $59.95 from my bank account to "sign up". The person that contacted me told me that I was entitled to a grant in the amount of $12,500.00. She stated that her name was "Rose Paige and her government id # was cs 1009. The $59.95 was supposed to be for processing of the package i was to receive.
I recall someone from this company calling me months ago trying to do the same thing. I turned him down when he asked for my checking account number. So recently when i received a phone call from this company aging i thought it must not be a scam. This company promised me that i would receive a $500.00 coupon for groceries or i would be able to deposit it into my account to cash. They said out of the $500.00 to save $59.95 for the processing fee. They weren't suppose to withdraw the funds from my account until i received the package. Because they would take it out of the 500.00. It took them no longer than a day to withdraw the money from my account. This is when i thought something is not right.
I am finally recieving the package two weeks later. Is stated that there is going to be a charge of $299.95 also taken out on my account. I never agreed to the $299.95, But when i called to cancell after i saw this on the welcome letter. They told me to wait for the welcome letter and i would only receive a refund if i wasn't approved for a government grant. Even though the lady never mentioned $299.95 being taken out of my account. I talked to what is supposed to be a supervisor who told me that he can't control what the sales representatives say when they call.
I asked if i could have the name of the person in charge of this company. I was told that they could not give out this information for safety reasons. I immediately called my bank and got a stop payment put on my acccount for this company. And then i went right to the bank and closed my bank account. These people are scam artist and are out to steal your money.
Oh! And they also told me that they needed my banks phone number because the bank would call me to authorize the funds to be deposited into my account. I have learned one thing from all of this never give your bank account number out over the phone, or on-line.
Taneesha
Randallstown, Maryland
U.S.A.
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