I was just scammed and I feel stupid
By rosaflorence
@rosaflorence (1924)
United States
March 2, 2007 1:30am CST
I was sent an email from a company called survey team. This email contained a message that said for me to activate my membership, it was for a paid to sign up site. I said okay. I went and signed up using my user name and password and then I noticed that blockbuster pays people $30 to sign up with them for $9.95 and you can cancell whenever you want, so I was thinking that I would get a twenty dollar profit from the deal. I went and entered my information and credit card number. I then went back to the site to see if my earnings had been credited. The had defiantly been credited, too someone elses name. I tried to change the profile information to my own but if kept giving me an error on the page. I tried calling this person's number(it had all of their personal info on it)but one phone was disconnected and the other one was busy, when I tried to call it again, they wouldn't answer. I even had this person's address. Who do I need to contact to tell them about this? I cancelled my membership with blockbuster(thank God, they had a 24hour cancellation agreement). I wrote the site an email explaining this. I never even would have noticed except it showed that I had over $200 in my account with them and I thought, this isn't right. This was when I tried to change the profile info and it wouldn't let me. What should I do?
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6 responses
@princeworthy (1909)
• United States
2 Mar 07
Usually if an money making offer sounds too good to be true it is. I always check this website before I join any money making websites.
http://gptboycott.com/paying/
It lists websites that are known scams and banned. It is not fool proof but it is better than not checking at all. I hope this helps you in the future.
@rosaflorence (1924)
• United States
2 Mar 07
I love you. Thank you for this site. I am going to bookmark it for later use. I can't believe this crap happened. I am usually pretty careful and I have even written articles about being careful on the Internet. This is embarrassing.
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@yiemega (300)
• Malaysia
3 Mar 07
you should report this to the sites managements or development,Howewer if your talking about e-gold you need to call the call center you can have a support from e-gold support team as soon as possible but if not about e-gold account you should ask for the survey team management
@rosaflorence (1924)
• United States
3 Mar 07
I contacted them and they finally sent me an email saying that they apologize and are going to look into it for me.
@pramodthakur (2365)
• India
2 Mar 07
Seems this is a fake one as there are many. Hollow promise is made by such site and later on after becoming member they do so. My suggestion is to you not to hurry for such sites' offer. Think twice, take the help of friends then only join. They may use your credit card also later on as you have entered the number. If the site is true one, then they should transfer the money in your account only, not at others account. I think they are cheating with you, be cautious please otherwise you may land in problem of misusing of credit card.
@rosaflorence (1924)
• United States
2 Mar 07
I have been receiving mail from friends asking me to sign up and I thought that this one was from them. I did not recognize the name on the account. I saved the message becasue it has all of this person's personal information on it.I am going to try to contact someone about this and see if they can delete their account. If any of you are going to use this site then I would suggest that you be careful. I deleted my information from the sign up site and also sent them a message explaining the problem that I had with them.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
2 Mar 07
I think that you would have to contact the site admin and i am so sorry that such a thing happened and i have no idea how such a thing would happen. I think that you should first try to contact admin and maybe try the phone numbers again and see if you get a response from the person at all!
@rosaflorence (1924)
• United States
2 Mar 07
I sent the site administrater an email last night after I had discovered this. I still can't be in touch with anyone on those numbers.
@sunilkonda (1215)
• India
2 Mar 07
Thanks everyone for sharing this info. Even i was about to enter my credit card number fro some similar survey team who asked to pay some bugs, thank god, at the last moment i changed mind and didnt entered, Otherwise i would also have become a victim.
@rosaflorence (1924)
• United States
2 Mar 07
I got blockbuster to refund the money that i had spent and delete all of my information off of there site but this other person was just trying to be sneaky. I went and checked my inbox a minute ago and now it is filled with offers from this company. I sent it all to spam but they just keep coming.
@jonilennon (22)
• Indonesia
3 Mar 07
you just got to be careful with these kind of site, there's a lot of scam site,
always check wih the forum.
good luck
@rosaflorence (1924)
• United States
3 Mar 07
I have received a lot of information from people here in mylot about sites that are scams but then again, I have also seen people claim that some sites are when I have been paid by that sit and so I know that they pay.
