I was called SEVERAL times by Chris Cuzzins of All American to purchase pens with the guarantee to win one of five fabulous prizes. I was even called back by Bob White, too. He pressured me into thinking I would be incredibly happy with my prize.
I finally talked my husband into ordering pens for $500!! I figured we needed new "business cards" anyway, what's the big deal... Well, the big deal is that these pens should NOT cost THAT much money!!! We got our pens, not too impressed... We also received one of those fabulous prizes... Florida/Bahamas cruise. I was hoping to take that honeymoon my husband & I never took... Glad someone else reported what it was really like!
I made the call to claim my prize, and then someone told me that I needed to speak to Marie. She called me back with all of the same promises that everyone else wrote about. I was told that I was so lucky and that I needed to promise to take her out to dinner & shopping with my winnings when we made the trip to Vegas on their dime. Oh, and the best part is that I won the Mega 30-01-1 prize! Meaning I just won the number one prize in the number one identified area for their advertising. Each time we received our cash we needed to take a picture of us receiving it & write a testimony about how we won this and how it changed our lives. We also needed to purchase pens, magnets, and keychains to the tune of $2898. Wow, these must be some really nice things... You'd think that I'd never have to buy anything again. I wasn't allowed to use a credit card for this, but had to write a check with my "cash code" number on it or they would cancel my winnings. She said I would be able to put my kids through college with the amount of money I'd win. Sure sounds enticing, huh?!?
While I was talking with her, I checked the BBB website and All American was not a member as Marie stated... As a matter of fact there were several complaints filed... I questioned her about this & she assured me that they were all taken care of.
Again, I talked my huband into it... $2898 was going to go out in a couple of hours through FedEx (they even gave me their FedEx account number). Since I had some time, I googled All American Advertising Scams. I found THIS website... THANK YOU, THANK YOU to those of you who took the time to send in your reports!!! I did NOT write a check because of YOU!!! I did give a courtesy call to have them stop the FedEx man from coming to get the check and told Marie that we weren't interested. She said ok. A few minutes later she called back to offer us a half and half payment plan, and we still said no.
While I was writing this I googled Marie Bradford of Las Vegas... Her name came up for usacomplaints.com website and the SAME scam under a different company's name..."JGB Enterprises". (Put JGB Enterprises in the search above more interesting reports, and maybe helpful for a lawsuit, too.) They had a different phone number and address, but the same people used their same names. Another innocent, small business owner was taken to the cleaners. My heart goes out to her.
I certainly hope a lawyer decides to pick this up... It has to be illegal in some way other than those people's morality. Maybe a local news station, or better yet a national station would be interested in reporting this!?!?
Read this report from a former employee
http://usacomplaints.com/reports/0/336/RipOff0336597.htm
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