Scammed? Fight Back!

You are not alone!  And everyone at one time or another has been ripped off.

Silence is fraud’s best friend.  Word of mouth is fraud’s worst enemy.  Pass the word!TM

First I suggest you keep on the person/company for refund.  If they refuse or ignore, then I would email.

 

Example email Subject:  Contacting FBI, IRS, AG, FTC, and news media today if no reply of my Refund (whatever agencies may apply; SEC, FDA, etc.)

 

Better yet if you can get a fax number, fax bomb them – keep faxing them until someone gets back to you

The fax should lead with the company / individual’s state Attorney General complaint form (cover sheet at end, the AG complaint will show them you mean business!  In the cover sheet threaten them with a comply date or you start your campaign to expose the fraud / theft / scam……..)

You can pull the complaint form off all the AG websites

Google for example:  California attorney general , then look for printable complaint form

 

In this complaint form section “describe or summary of your complaint” put ‘SEE ATTACHED LETTER”       

 

I suggest the letter explain the circumstances of why this company/indiv has committed fraud,  detailing how you have tried to reason with the company to get a refund, and even gone as far as threaten.  Bad people ignore threats because they feel themselves invincible to being caught or stopped.  Some will just simply close down the website or change it or start a whole new scam!

 

Address the letter to the AG and put in the top Cc:  FTC, SEC (securities exchange commission if this is anything to do with (“the word”) investment or a public company), FCC (federal communications commission if this has anything to do internet, phones, etc), FDA (federal drug administration if this has anything to do with food, nutrition, medical devices) and a list in the scammers hometown of 3 or 4 TV news investigators; their names and station info and the largest circulated newspaper in the crooks town.

 

LET ME TELL YOU

DO NOT LET ANYONE STEAL YOUR MONEY!!  $100.00 to $10,000 or more , it does not matter – don’t let them get away with it!

 

GOOD HONEST COMPANIES, GOOD HONEST PEOPLE DO NOT TAKE YOUR MONEY AND DELIVER THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE AS DELIVERED

 

IF YOU ARE UNHAPPY / DISSATISFIED – ANY GOOD PERSON/COMPANY WILL GLADLY REFUND YOUR MONEY

SOME COMPANIES SAY RETURN THE BOTTLE EMPTY

OR IF YOU CALL, EMAIL, FAX TO COMPLAIN, THEY MAY EVEN SAY YOU DON’T HAVE TO BOTHER RETURNING THE EMPTY BOTTLE

 

AND LET ME TELL YOU LIKE, EXAMPLE STEVEN COSTABILE (CASH GIFT GENERATOR, THIS IS A GIFT, POOR GET RICHER PROGRAMS)

CON ARTISTS ARE ALL GREAT TALKERS

THEY WANT TO SUCK MONEY OUT OF YOU AND THEY ARE VERY, VERY CONVINCING THAT THEY ARE GOOD, CARING SALES PEOPLE

 

The reason for this and how it all started was a friend of mine after about 3 or 4 months of telling me that he had not received any money after spending $1,500 and $700 in adwords ads – I said if you run that many ads, spent that much money and you haven’t gotten one sign up ………… something is wrong.  He finally revealed the name Cash Gift Generator – I was shocked he got involved with a ‘cash gifting program’ and would send an obvious con man $1,500

 

The friend said that he did searches online and saw not one negative comment or report on this guy or his program!!!  So after this crook ignored my friend’s demand for refund and the threats to expose his theft, I said put up a complaint on “Rip Off Report”

Then some other people commented on there and I tapped into his program websites to obtain a list of 150 or 200 people (there were 1,000’s which I did not have to go through each website by website to pull off names & emails — very time consuming)

Many of these people came forward with reports of them sending Steven Costabile $500 to $3,500 and many also paying for ads.

It was discovered that Costabile had the ads all redirected to himself, so even if the ads worked to get interested paying participants sending cash to strangers, they all went to Costabile himself all the time anyway!

 

You contact me and let me advise you on your particular situation.  But I cannot do this for everyone.  What made me upset is that most of the people reported that Costabile stole their money but they were unwilling to file a complaint with the Calif AG, their state AG, report him to the FBI, FTC, the Calif Governor and news investigators.  Some said they did not want their wives to know they lost the money.  Some said they were embarrassed.   Some said it was their own stupidity and they would move on!

 

I spent a couple of years from 1995 to 1997 going after a crook William (Bill) Converse of Alpine Air Products originally from Minnesota then moved to Tennessee when the Minn state was after him , so evading Minn, he set up Alpine Industries with his wife, daughter and son as owners………… still FTC after him , then he partnered and changed name to Ecoquest but the ozone machines killed a man and caused a baby’s brain damage and I found out Converse had lied about being an Engineer graduating from a University which confirmed he never graduated……… well, one lie leads to another usually…….. and it was the case with him – the machines were NOT safe and I demanded an investigation!  Meantime, Alpine Industries sued me for $1.5 million and at this point, I was clueless and just agreed not to pursue them.  Over the course of the next 13 years, I have learned from one MLM, internet schemes, even TV

 

I have tried to help one man who was ripped off $250,000 !!

But this man is in Canada and the man / company is in California & this is very difficult.

 

I emailed him not to let the crook get away with this theft and he did write something to him that yielded one small check which he never told me how much and I did not ask.

I have been begging him month after month to keep on.  He finally sent another letter and was told by the crook’s attorney to buzz off.

This man has had to go get 2 or 3 jobs and I believe the man was retired and took out a loan on his home for the $250,000 to buy a container (200 some units) and territory rights in some part of Canada for atmospheric water generator machines from Planet’s Purest Water of Cypress, Calif (stay away from these crooks; husband & wife Robin and Dee Dee Larson and CEO Craig Newhouse all sound good but they are very, very greedy and will cut you out of deals and suck money out of people)

 

Follow these simple instructions:

 

    * Google the state AG
    * Google the Secretary of State & search their business register (if not, red flag)
    * Google and get the District Attorney (D.A.) for their town, city, county
    * Google the names of all parties & google phone # with dashes (123-456-7890)
    * Google their address (see if it’s a UPS store type mail box rental place)  then you should have a list of other tenants & they are people you can contact if necessary
    * Google their email
    * Find out as much as you can (one guy I found his home address and got his wife’s email — & started sending her Cc: on the emails to let her know what a scumbag her husband is & what he’s up to!  Within 10 minutes I got an email receipt the refunds were made!

 

Very important:  List your Congressman/woman

Google your city to find which Congressman/woman in your county/city

And tell them that you have been a victim and need their help with prompting the AG or D.A. in that other state to prosecute for fraud and theft.

 

(or I will give you some examples of how my local Congressman/woman helped:

1 – the IRS took $1,000 from my tax refund many years ago

I showed the IRS 4 canceled checks front & back where the taxes for a trustfund were paid.  The IRS (incompetence) never would recognize or acknowledge the taxes were paid.  When a friend told me to contact my Congressman, I did and it worked.  The Congressman’s office informed me about a Taxpayer’s Advocacy office, sent them a letter on my behalf and I was finally sent back the $1,000.

2 – my mother was getting a refinance on her mortgage but the person came back that she owned $30,000 to a hospital.  This was for a surgery (gone wrong) from 2 car accidents back to back that neither were her fault but the lawyer lost the case.  Yeas went by and $17,000 was in interest…….. we got the Congressman to write the hospital and ask them to forgive the interest and it worked!  She had them pay the $13,000 bill off

3 – my daughter had a problem with the Motor Vehicle Administration mix up which was causing her a big problem.  A letter explaining had the Congressman’s office get person who runs the MVA to get the employee’s to understand it was a mess up and they needed to fix it

No one I ever told this to ever knew the Congressman/woman could help like this.

 

A big major scare to crooks is exposing all over internet.

People will do searches and this will greatly hinder their cash intake.

 

Please post your story here:

 

www.ripoffreport.com

 

www.scam.com

 

Other victim / fraud & scam information resources:

 

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/infores/fraud/welcome.html

 

http://www.scamvictimsunited.com

 

http://www.fraudaid.com/ 

http://www.fraudaid.com/How-To-Deal-With-Having-Been-Conned/index.htm

 

http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Victims/restitution.htm

 

 

 

 

 

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