Scams - Rants of American Business Fraud
WOW – In 1 day I have had too much fun dealing with
American
business that is being evil! So it seems.....
Lets start with
Pro Flowers! They are the biggest publicized
flower place I have ever seen. I hear ads or radio, all over the web and
thought they were a
good deal for flowers. I sent a pretty girl some
flowers
and started getting regular offers in my in box. I started to be a bit annoyed
by the number of emails and stopped reading them a long time ago.
Upon
Credit Card review I found a
$14.95 charge listed as a
saver program – thru
Pro Flowers. I
never authorized these charges. I never
signed up for anything,
I sent flowers 1 time and they now had my
credit card
number, and after a little deeper checking, had been charging me 14.95 for
months!
When I called the number to have the charges stopped, the automated
service required the last 4 of the credit card used to sign up for the service.
Since I never signed up, I could get no further.
I emailed my bank and today started action. I disputed 3
months, the most you can, so I was told by my bank, and then shut the card off,
making payments impossible for future charges.
I am without that card until I get the new card, have other
accounts on auto pay that I have authorized that need to be changed to the new
card once it arrives, and have 4 months I can’t dispute because they are too
old.
PRO FLOWERS SUCK!!!!
Lets go to an unresolved, yet frustration none the less.
XM
service for
XM radio was shut off because I did not pay the 3 month renewal.
That’s fine. Didn’t want to pay the fee and thought it was done. Then started
getting calls and now a letter from
CCA –
Collection Company of America.
It lists an amount of $43.85 past due and now turned over to
collections. From
what I understand, I paid for the service when I started and it is billed every
3 months for the upcoming service period. I signed no term contract. I believe
the problem is not with
XM but actually with
CCA.
A little search online shows
many fraud complaints against
CCA. I can’t tell how they knew I was not using
XM any more, but it would seem
that
CCA is a
total scam and full of
crap! I called the numbers provided to speak to someone about the “
claim” and
the phone just rang, no answer. I them called the toll free # and had a
computerized service answer, and looped me thru the last segment for 6 times
before I hung up – of course the machine kept thanking me for holding as part
of the loop.
CCA – another scam??
Is XM Radio in on a SCAM??
2 issues = 1 common thread!
I asked the bank if they had heard of
Pro Flowers making
unauthorized charges and
scamming people… The lady said, “You are not the only
one! We have many complaints!”
GOOGLE Search said
CCA is full of poopie a few
times in the top search results also. Yet it showed a site listing and it
looked very official. SO – are companies getting hacked or just slapping the
public for short term gains before going all
GM on us???
I am not happy with the greed that runs thru our
leaders,
government, major
US businesses and
losers that are trying to
scam me every time
I turn around.
Maybe the time doesn’t detour
the crime. It would seem this is an understatement.
Not going to go all morbid here, but really think the time
or consequences need to be a lot more scary. A slap on the hand measured
against the possibility of court action and some time in jail doesn’t seem to
be an effective discouragement for crime.
I get 300-400
scam junk mail a day. Love to work with
law
enforcement on an effective way to discourage losers from being professional
losers.
The bottom line - We are living in tough times! Please take the extra few minutes to
review Credit Card Statements and watch for shady business practices from
Credit Cards,
Services online and review
statements for
possible fraud. You might be surprised what you find on your
bank statements. Act immediately! Don't wait. You can only
dispute back 3 months so hanging onto your hard earned cash is going to continue to be a part time job.
