I am an attorney in Texas. I was recently defrauded out of $3000 by a company that promised to fix some tax problems I was having, but instead did very little other than to continue requesting that I send more money. When a few red flags made me suspicious enough to attempt to verify the accuracy of representations that were being made to me by an attorney at Omni, I decided to contact the IRS.in a nutshell, the people at Omni had been feeding me a bunch of hogwash about issues that had supposedly arisen due to my lack of diligence and stating that these unforeseen issues had made my case more difficult than initially expected... Oh, and by the way, send more money. As it turns out, I was able to address these nonexistent issues (that Omni told me would cost $2,000 more dollars to resolve) with an IRS agent and get a repayment plan in place in less than 30 minutes.
I plan to file a deceptive trade practices act (DTPA) lawsuit against Omni Financial before the end of 2009. Many individuals like me put their trust in Omni Financial at a time when they and/or their business were in a most vulnerable state and in desperate need of assistance (only to be defrauded out of large sums of hard earned money). If enough individuals are interested in seeking legal recourse against Omni, I will consider coordinating and filing a class action lawsuit, at which time this company would be forced to pay back all individuals everything that is owed them, along with a sum of money to compensate them for the inconvenience, harrassment and frustration they were made to endure at the hands of a company interested only in its bottom line.
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