Regional credit card scam busted
By Contributor • Nov 23rd, 2010 • Category: Scams
Regional credit card scam busted
The Bogalusa Police Department has arrested one man in relation to a multi-parish and maybe even multi-state credit card scam. Now it’s looking for his accomplice, a woman with roses tattooed across the top of her chest, and Acting Major Joe Culpepper said he believes there are many more people involved in the fraud.
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Woman sentenced to five years in mortgage and credit card scam
Superior Court Judge Liliana S. DeAvila-Silebi, sitting in Hackensack, imposed the sentence on Yu Jane Chen, 43, of Naperville, Ill., and ordered her, along with an accomplice, to pay $ 1,153,375 in restitution.
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Phoenix man sentenced in credit card scam
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison and ordered to pay $ 1 million in restitution for his role in a credit card scam. Prosecutors said Wednesday that 38-year-old Frank Hernandez received a 70-month prison term in U.S. District Court in Phoenix. They say Hernandez devised a scheme to illegally obtain corporate American Express credit cards and manufacture …
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Question by littlebit: “Phone Credit Card Scams”?
Has anyone received a call offering a Credit Card from Hoover State Bank? They wanted me to send $ 100, Western Union to Atlanta, GA, to cover the processing/other fees (which would be refunded to me after a period of time). The Receiver was, Hoover and (my last name). I was told I would receive the card UPS next day and a representative, Abby Palmer, would follow up with me. I was even given a pin # for the card.
Because it was Xmas and I wanted the card to do additional shopping I fell for it. I never received the card and the phone number they gave me is only for transactions and they ask for a card # + the pin #. Since I never received the card and validated it this number is of no use to me. I have tried to look up Hoover State Bank in Atlanta, but there doesn’t seem to be a Hoover State Bank in Atlanta.
Even if I can’t get my money back I still want people to know that this telephone scam is going on.
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Answer by SexyTrojan
I’m sorry you got scammed. It’s never a good idea to send money to get money.
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It is a scam. A couple years ago my husband got sucked into a credit card scam too, I don’t remember what the name of it was supposed to be, but he paid $ 250 to them for a $ 1000 credit card and never received it. After 3 months he received a package of papers from them offering him a debit card. He called the phone number that they originally gave him but it had been disconnected and it listed a new number, so he called the new number and it was the same thing with another new number. After like 4 or 5 new numbers he finally talked to somebody and told them he wanted his money back and they said ok we will issue you a refund and you should receive it in 2 weeks. 2 weeks later no refund. He tried to call them again but this time not only was the phone number disconnected but it didn’t give a new number. We looked up the company on the BBB and there were alot of reported scams for that company. As of this day we still have not ever received a refund or been able to contact them. Good luck on getting your money back. Hopefully you have better luck than we did.
check out http://scamsbeware.com – consumer resource center. all kinds of scam info there, there’s also a forum where u can keep up to date on current and future scams. And if u have any questions just post it in the forum and somebody out there should help u. http://scamsbeware.com/forum Best of all it’s FREE 2 join, just register at the top it’ll be worth it for u to keep up 2 date on scams/fraud. Hope this helps.