I got a postcard reading "we have a reward in your name" with number to call and claim number. Note: the phone number on the postcard was not the same as the corporate number on the website, but rather 800-760-6282. My experience on the phone was horrendous. They ask for credit card info for a "one time processing fee." Then telemarketer sends you to a recording to get your confirmation number -- but the recording is a sales pitch for a trial membership with another discount card that will start billing you if you don't cancel, and it asks you to say "OK" to get your confirmation for the original "reward." Then instead of giving you the confirmation number, it sends you to the orginal marketer who says "This is the end -- listen to this recording for your confirmation no," and then sends you to ANOTHER recorded pitch that requires you to say OK. Lather, rinse, repeat -- endless sales pitches that require an OK, without ever getting a confirmation number. And if you refuse to OK it, the marketer will say it's too late to cancel the original reward and you will keep getting a monthly bill unless you say OK. So they're basically extorting you to keep signing up for more and more stuff.When I said this to the marketer -- "You keep saying this is the end, and telling me to listen for my confirmation number, but all I get is more sales pitches demanding I say OK and no confirmation number" -- she finally sighed and gave me some really specious-sounding confirmation number, about 20 zeros followed by 20 at the end, in a very sullen monotone and actually let me hang up.
After I hung up I checked consumer fraud websites -- including this one -- and found lots of complaints that when you call to cancel these "trial memberships," they're either impossible to actually contact or they keep getting monthly credit card bills anyway. So I called back the original number and gave them the claim number, and said I wanted to cancel everything I'd signed up for (HealthFlexAdvantage and MagazineAdvantage). The guy said I was cancelled, but his response was suspiciously fast and I feared he was lying. So I called the number and gave my claim # a third time and requested confirmation I had been cancelled, and told him about the fraudulent stuff I'd found online. The marketer confirmed I was cancelled, but got testy and said my phone number was blocked and not to call back. Now I'm waiting for my credit card bill to see whether they're still billing me, in case I have to report the charge as fraudulent. I also intend to file a report with BBB and the Florida attorney general, as well as showing the postcard to the Post Office and reporting the company it's from in hopes they can aat least get their bulk mail permit revoked, if not prosecuted for mail fraud. These people should be shut down.
I got a postcard reading "we have a reward in your name" with number to call and claim number. Note: the phone number on the postcard was not the same as the corporate number on the website, but rather 800-760-6282.
My experience on the phone was horrendous. They ask for credit card info for a "one time processing fee." then telemarketer sends you to a recording to get your confirmation number -- but the recording is a sales pitch for a trial membership with another discount card that will start billing you if you don't cancel, and it asks you to say "ok" to get your confirmation for the original "reward." then instead of giving you the confirmation number, it sends you to the orginal marketer who says "this is the end -- listen to this recording for your confirmation no," and then sends you to another recorded pitch that requires you to say ok. Lather, rinse, repeat -- endless sales pitches that require an ok, without ever getting a confirmation number.
And if you refuse to ok it, the marketer will say it's too late to cancel the original reward and you will keep getting a monthly bill unless you say ok. So they're basically extorting you to keep signing up for more and more stuff. When i said this to the marketer -- "you keep saying this is the end, and telling me to listen for my confirmation number, but all i get is more sales pitches demanding i say ok and no confirmation number" -- she finally sighed and gave me some really specious-sounding confirmation number, about 20 zeros followed by 20 at the end, in a very sullen monotone and actually let me hang up.
After i hung up i checked consumer fraud websites -- including this one -- and found lots of complaints that when you call to cancel these "trial memberships," they're either impossible to actually contact or they keep getting monthly credit card bills anyway.
So i called back the original number and gave them the claim number, and said i wanted to cancel everything i'd signed up for Healthflexadvantage and magazineadvantage). The guy said i was cancelled, but his response was suspiciously fast and i feared he was lying. So i called the number and gave my claim # a third time and requested confirmation i had been cancelled, and told him about the fraudulent stuff i'd found online. The marketer confirmed i was cancelled, but got testy and said my phone number was blocked and not to call back.
Now i'm waiting for my credit card bill to see whether they're still billing me, in case i have to report the charge as fraudulent.
I also intend to file a report with bbb and the florida attorney general, as well as showing the postcard to the post office and reporting the company it's from in hopes they can aat least get their bulk mail permit revoked, if not prosecuted for mail fraud.
A guy that didn't want to give his name or company name that I could barely understand his English wanted me to give him my debit or credit card information to charge me $4.95 to send me a $100 gift card. After ten minutes on the phone me explaining to him that I am ok with him sending me the card and packet of information in the mail and if I receive it I would look over packet, if I was interested in anything at that point we would deal with me giving out my debit card information, he basically kept telling me he couldn't send it without me paying $4.95 first, so I offered to send a chk or money order and that wasn't a option but he told me he worked for goshopandsave.com and I could check them out and see they were a legit company and were being monitored by the better business bureau and conversation was being recorded but still wouldn't give his name. I didn't fall for it but consumed about 15-20 min of his time.
I called the number given on the back of my credit card to make an over the phone payment. I received an immediately message "just for calling today, you will receive a $100.00 gift card." I was glad because the company gives free points, etc. by email and in the store. I was asked for some information and I then immediately told the person, I was only calling to make a payment on my card. He said he understood and in order to receive the card I had to make a one time fee only (TODAY) to receive the card. I said okay and he then transferred me to someone who said he was (Alex-thick ascent.) He asked me for my card number which I gave him and proceeded to ask me to listen to more information. He then told me about the Go Shop and Save. I told him no I was not interested but he insisted that all I had to do was to receive the card and use for a trial period of 14 days and if I was not happy I could cancel the membership. Again, he stated that "it was a one time fee of $4.95 for the $100.00 credit card I had gotten just for calling today." I said okay. With the spill and listening to a recording as he spoke to me, the call had already taken up 40 minutes. Once I said okay to that he started in on another spill of receiving a promotion for something America. At that point I stopped him and told him "NO, I DON't WANT THIS TRIAL OFFER. I JUST WANT TO MAKE A PAYMENT ON MY CARD. He qickly said okay went over the spill again and stated that I would receive my card in the mail by Friday, no later than Monday. He gave me a number to call and stated that if I did not get the number everything would be in the information sent along with the card. I had written down the number and told him he was suppose to give me a number after this call where I could call and make my payment. He gave me the number and we hung up. I called the number and it was a different number but with the same recording. I hung up. My bank called me the next day from the fraud department to question three charges that had been made against my card. To my surprise it was a charge of $4.95 from each offer (Alex) had spoken to me about. I told the bank I only authorized one charge and only one. The rep. informed me that only one charge was okayed. When I received the information in the mail it was for the Go Shop and Save. It had two phone numbers on it where to call and cancel the membership. I called all day the first day, periodically the next day and the next day early morning and received the same message. "Do to the large volume of calls your wait is three (3 minutes.) Then it came back "Due to the large volume of calls, your wait time is MORE than three minutes. Was never able to get through. Never received the $100.00 gift card for call that DAY!! What a SCAM
Apparently this unscrupulous company, Go Shop and Save, have found ways to hack 1-800 numbers by intercepting calls made to legitimate companies. Today I called my mortgage company's 1-800 number to get information on refinancing my loan. The call was answered by a recording that said, "Thank you for calling please listen to because our options have changed." Well, it only gave me 2 options, "Press 1 to continue or 9 to hang up." I pressed 1 and a man with an East -Indian accent answered, which is common for companies to use foreign customer service call takers these days. I told him I wanted a loan officer because I wanted information about refinancing. He then asked, "Do you want to refinance or just information?" I thought that was a weird response but I repeated that I wanted information. The man said, "Ok, I will transfer you to the person you need to speak to but for calling today you have won the opportunity for a $100 retail gift card to use anywhere in the US at any establishment" So I am thinking it is some kind of promotion from my mortgage company becuase that is who I think I am talking to."
The man went on to say that there is a $4.95 promotional and processing fee. and that the gift card would come in the mail with an offer to join the the discount club for 29.95 but today today I was only paying $4.95 and there would be no other charges unless I want to join the club but all of that would come in writing. He then, on his own, emphasized several times that I would only be paying $4.95 today and nothing else. I said ok I'll take the gift card. The man then transfered me to the person who would get the rest of my information. A woman named Nellie, also an East Indian accent, came on the line and said she was going to verify that I wanted the gift card for $4.95 and them put through to an automated machine. so the autotmated system then verified my VISA card info and then sent me back to Nellie who then put be BACK on the automated system to give me my confirmation number. The system then took to me to another offer for other shopping discounts. This happened 4 times and each time the machine would ask you "OK?" and when I answered "No" it would go dead. Then Nellie would call me back and told me that I had to say "yes" or the machine would disconnnect us and without the confirmation number that the "machine" was going to give me I could not cancel any of the services which then then me charged to my credit card every month. This occurred another time when I said "yes but I don't want the product!"
Nellie became very frustrated with me and I explained that I do not want the other "trial" discount programs because I don't want to have to keep calling and cancelling something that is otherwise going be charged to my card each month. Nellie said, "Sir you are not going to be charged anything but you have to say "yes" if you want the confirmation number otherwise we are going to get disconnected and your card is going to be charged $29.95 each month!" She then told me, "Complete the verification on the 'machine' and get the confirmation number. When we get the confirmation number I will have you hang up and then I will call you back on another line and I will cancel all the other programs." I, against my will, completed the verification, got my 'confirmation number'. Nellie had me hang up and then she called me right back and asked for the confirmation number. She told me that she cancelled the other programs and that I would still get the $100 gift card (yeah right!). She then said, "I am now going to give you the number so that you can get the information that you called about, 1-800-555-1212." This 1-800 she gave me is the 1-800 directory service number. It's the same as call 411 directory service. It was not to anyhting connected to my mortgage company. I am positive that this is not going to be easy and that I am going to find different charges on my account in the next few day and that I am going to have to dispute the charges and cancel my card.
I am sure that the FTC, or maybe even the FCC (since they intercepted my call to my mortgage company), would want to do something about this company's strong arm tactics. I believe that by using these intercept tactics and by implying that they are with the mortgage company Go Shop and Save violated federal statutes. The company has a website goshopandsave.com but after reading others posts about this company those people are saying that trying to cancel any service or get your money back is d**n near impossible. We'll see! If any federal or other law enforcement agency would like to pursue this I would be willing to assist. My background, which I will only reveal to law enforcement, is very credible and dependable
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I got a postcard reading "we have a reward in your name" with number to call and claim number. Note: the phone number on the postcard was not the same as the corporate number on the website, but rather 800-760-6282. My experience on the phone was horrendous. They ask for credit card info for a "one time processing fee." Then telemarketer sends you to a recording to get your confirmation number -- but the recording is a sales pitch for a trial membership with another discount card that will start billing you if you don't cancel, and it asks you to say "OK" to get your confirmation for the original "reward." Then instead of giving you the confirmation number, it sends you to the orginal marketer who says "This is the end -- listen to this recording for your confirmation no," and then sends you to ANOTHER recorded pitch that requires you to say OK. Lather, rinse, repeat -- endless sales pitches that require an OK, without ever getting a confirmation number. And if you refuse to OK it, the marketer will say it's too late to cancel the original reward and you will keep getting a monthly bill unless you say OK. So they're basically extorting you to keep signing up for more and more stuff.When I said this to the marketer -- "You keep saying this is the end, and telling me to listen for my confirmation number, but all I get is more sales pitches demanding I say OK and no confirmation number" -- she finally sighed and gave me some really specious-sounding confirmation number, about 20 zeros followed by 20 at the end, in a very sullen monotone and actually let me hang up.
After I hung up I checked consumer fraud websites -- including this one -- and found lots of complaints that when you call to cancel these "trial memberships," they're either impossible to actually contact or they keep getting monthly credit card bills anyway. So I called back the original number and gave them the claim number, and said I wanted to cancel everything I'd signed up for (HealthFlexAdvantage and MagazineAdvantage). The guy said I was cancelled, but his response was suspiciously fast and I feared he was lying. So I called the number and gave my claim # a third time and requested confirmation I had been cancelled, and told him about the fraudulent stuff I'd found online. The marketer confirmed I was cancelled, but got testy and said my phone number was blocked and not to call back. Now I'm waiting for my credit card bill to see whether they're still billing me, in case I have to report the charge as fraudulent. I also intend to file a report with BBB and the Florida attorney general, as well as showing the postcard to the Post Office and reporting the company it's from in hopes they can aat least get their bulk mail permit revoked, if not prosecuted for mail fraud. These people should be shut down.
I got a postcard reading "we have a reward in your name" with number to call and claim number. Note: the phone number on the postcard was not the same as the corporate number on the website, but rather 800-760-6282.
My experience on the phone was horrendous. They ask for credit card info for a "one time processing fee." then telemarketer sends you to a recording to get your confirmation number -- but the recording is a sales pitch for a trial membership with another discount card that will start billing you if you don't cancel, and it asks you to say "ok" to get your confirmation for the original "reward." then instead of giving you the confirmation number, it sends you to the orginal marketer who says "this is the end -- listen to this recording for your confirmation no," and then sends you to another recorded pitch that requires you to say ok. Lather, rinse, repeat -- endless sales pitches that require an ok, without ever getting a confirmation number.
And if you refuse to ok it, the marketer will say it's too late to cancel the original reward and you will keep getting a monthly bill unless you say ok. So they're basically extorting you to keep signing up for more and more stuff. When i said this to the marketer -- "you keep saying this is the end, and telling me to listen for my confirmation number, but all i get is more sales pitches demanding i say ok and no confirmation number" -- she finally sighed and gave me some really specious-sounding confirmation number, about 20 zeros followed by 20 at the end, in a very sullen monotone and actually let me hang up.
After i hung up i checked consumer fraud websites -- including this one -- and found lots of complaints that when you call to cancel these "trial memberships," they're either impossible to actually contact or they keep getting monthly credit card bills anyway.
So i called back the original number and gave them the claim number, and said i wanted to cancel everything i'd signed up for Healthflexadvantage and magazineadvantage). The guy said i was cancelled, but his response was suspiciously fast and i feared he was lying. So i called the number and gave my claim # a third time and requested confirmation i had been cancelled, and told him about the fraudulent stuff i'd found online. The marketer confirmed i was cancelled, but got testy and said my phone number was blocked and not to call back.
Now i'm waiting for my credit card bill to see whether they're still billing me, in case i have to report the charge as fraudulent.
I also intend to file a report with bbb and the florida attorney general, as well as showing the postcard to the post office and reporting the company it's from in hopes they can aat least get their bulk mail permit revoked, if not prosecuted for mail fraud.
These people should be shut down.
A guy that didn't want to give his name or company name that I could barely understand his English wanted me to give him my debit or credit card information to charge me $4.95 to send me a $100 gift card. After ten minutes on the phone me explaining to him that I am ok with him sending me the card and packet of information in the mail and if I receive it I would look over packet, if I was interested in anything at that point we would deal with me giving out my debit card information, he basically kept telling me he couldn't send it without me paying $4.95 first, so I offered to send a chk or money order and that wasn't a option but he told me he worked for goshopandsave.com and I could check them out and see they were a legit company and were being monitored by the better business bureau and conversation was being recorded but still wouldn't give his name. I didn't fall for it but consumed about 15-20 min of his time.
I called the number given on the back of my credit card to make an over the phone payment. I received an immediately message "just for calling today, you will receive a $100.00 gift card." I was glad because the company gives free points, etc. by email and in the store. I was asked for some information and I then immediately told the person, I was only calling to make a payment on my card. He said he understood and in order to receive the card I had to make a one time fee only (TODAY) to receive the card. I said okay and he then transferred me to someone who said he was (Alex-thick ascent.) He asked me for my card number which I gave him and proceeded to ask me to listen to more information. He then told me about the Go Shop and Save. I told him no I was not interested but he insisted that all I had to do was to receive the card and use for a trial period of 14 days and if I was not happy I could cancel the membership. Again, he stated that "it was a one time fee of $4.95 for the $100.00 credit card I had gotten just for calling today." I said okay. With the spill and listening to a recording as he spoke to me, the call had already taken up 40 minutes. Once I said okay to that he started in on another spill of receiving a promotion for something America. At that point I stopped him and told him "NO, I DON't WANT THIS TRIAL OFFER. I JUST WANT TO MAKE A PAYMENT ON MY CARD. He qickly said okay went over the spill again and stated that I would receive my card in the mail by Friday, no later than Monday. He gave me a number to call and stated that if I did not get the number everything would be in the information sent along with the card. I had written down the number and told him he was suppose to give me a number after this call where I could call and make my payment. He gave me the number and we hung up. I called the number and it was a different number but with the same recording. I hung up. My bank called me the next day from the fraud department to question three charges that had been made against my card. To my surprise it was a charge of $4.95 from each offer (Alex) had spoken to me about. I told the bank I only authorized one charge and only one. The rep. informed me that only one charge was okayed. When I received the information in the mail it was for the Go Shop and Save. It had two phone numbers on it where to call and cancel the membership. I called all day the first day, periodically the next day and the next day early morning and received the same message. "Do to the large volume of calls your wait is three (3 minutes.) Then it came back "Due to the large volume of calls, your wait time is MORE than three minutes. Was never able to get through. Never received the $100.00 gift card for call that DAY!! What a SCAM
Apparently this unscrupulous company, Go Shop and Save, have found ways to hack 1-800 numbers by intercepting calls made to legitimate companies. Today I called my mortgage company's 1-800 number to get information on refinancing my loan. The call was answered by a recording that said, "Thank you for calling please listen to because our options have changed." Well, it only gave me 2 options, "Press 1 to continue or 9 to hang up." I pressed 1 and a man with an East -Indian accent answered, which is common for companies to use foreign customer service call takers these days. I told him I wanted a loan officer because I wanted information about refinancing. He then asked, "Do you want to refinance or just information?" I thought that was a weird response but I repeated that I wanted information. The man said, "Ok, I will transfer you to the person you need to speak to but for calling today you have won the opportunity for a $100 retail gift card to use anywhere in the US at any establishment" So I am thinking it is some kind of promotion from my mortgage company becuase that is who I think I am talking to."
The man went on to say that there is a $4.95 promotional and processing fee. and that the gift card would come in the mail with an offer to join the the discount club for 29.95 but today today I was only paying $4.95 and there would be no other charges unless I want to join the club but all of that would come in writing. He then, on his own, emphasized several times that I would only be paying $4.95 today and nothing else. I said ok I'll take the gift card. The man then transfered me to the person who would get the rest of my information. A woman named Nellie, also an East Indian accent, came on the line and said she was going to verify that I wanted the gift card for $4.95 and them put through to an automated machine. so the autotmated system then verified my VISA card info and then sent me back to Nellie who then put be BACK on the automated system to give me my confirmation number. The system then took to me to another offer for other shopping discounts. This happened 4 times and each time the machine would ask you "OK?" and when I answered "No" it would go dead. Then Nellie would call me back and told me that I had to say "yes" or the machine would disconnnect us and without the confirmation number that the "machine" was going to give me I could not cancel any of the services which then then me charged to my credit card every month. This occurred another time when I said "yes but I don't want the product!"
Nellie became very frustrated with me and I explained that I do not want the other "trial" discount programs because I don't want to have to keep calling and cancelling something that is otherwise going be charged to my card each month. Nellie said, "Sir you are not going to be charged anything but you have to say "yes" if you want the confirmation number otherwise we are going to get disconnected and your card is going to be charged $29.95 each month!" She then told me, "Complete the verification on the 'machine' and get the confirmation number. When we get the confirmation number I will have you hang up and then I will call you back on another line and I will cancel all the other programs." I, against my will, completed the verification, got my 'confirmation number'. Nellie had me hang up and then she called me right back and asked for the confirmation number. She told me that she cancelled the other programs and that I would still get the $100 gift card (yeah right!). She then said, "I am now going to give you the number so that you can get the information that you called about, 1-800-555-1212." This 1-800 she gave me is the 1-800 directory service number. It's the same as call 411 directory service. It was not to anyhting connected to my mortgage company. I am positive that this is not going to be easy and that I am going to find different charges on my account in the next few day and that I am going to have to dispute the charges and cancel my card.
I am sure that the FTC, or maybe even the FCC (since they intercepted my call to my mortgage company), would want to do something about this company's strong arm tactics. I believe that by using these intercept tactics and by implying that they are with the mortgage company Go Shop and Save violated federal statutes. The company has a website goshopandsave.com but after reading others posts about this company those people are saying that trying to cancel any service or get your money back is d**n near impossible. We'll see! If any federal or other law enforcement agency would like to pursue this I would be willing to assist. My background, which I will only reveal to law enforcement, is very credible and dependable