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Global Private Real Estate

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Has anyone ever heard of this company?

I had a friend call me just the other day who owns at a resort where we do and she wanted to know if they were legit. I told her probably not. We know all about reseller scams, but have not been able to find a single negative thing about them.

Well, we got a call from them today wanting to buy our timeshare at the same resort. They did not want any money upfront, just a commission on a sale. The price is too high for me to believe it is true.

Thanks for any comments.
 
They called you and are offering fantastic price. Scammers are smarter and like Nigerian scammers now wait until a day or two before closing when you are planning on how to spend money to advise a wire transfer of a couple grand is required but will be reimbursed.

Simply say you will do if local seller selected local Title company is used. No "cash" to them!

They will vaporize!

Names mean nothing as they change faster than you can change clothes.
 
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Thanks - that is what I thought! I told my friend to ignore them and then hubby told them to send the paperwork. He just wanted to see what they sent. There is no way they would pay the amount they mentioned and we knew it. Besides, my husband loves that place.
 
Scam

Someone else once posted that these companies are similar to the game "Wack a Mole." You wack one and another one pops up.

One thing that you can count on is the scammers evolving to make it difficult to identify their scam. Most of what I have seen has pretty much followed the same pattern, which has been this:

  1. Search Google to get an address of a nice "office"
  2. Create VoIP phone numbers that have a local pre fix to match their "office" location
  3. Make up testimonials
  4. CREATE the website
  5. Bombard timeshare owners with phone calls
  6. Have shills post on TUG and elsewhere announcing what a reputable company they are
  7. Reap in stolen money until the heat increases
  8. Close website
  9. Repeat step 1

However, this one is different.

First glance - other than false job postings in the last couple of days there is practically NOTHING on the web about them even though their website claims they have 1,000 employees in 23 offices in 8 countries. I couldn't even find their website at ALL until I thought to just type in www.globalprivaterealestate.com.

How is this one different? First of all, their website was created a long time ago - 9/29/07. Second, their local number is a landline and not a VoIP Internet number.

So, does that mean that this MAY be legit because they have been around a long time and have a landline? NO. Why would a company with 1,000 employees in 8 countries that claim to do more important things like Global Consulting bother to take the time to COLD CALL timeshare owners offering to BUY their timeshares for OUTRAGIOUSLY expensive prices? No legit company does that. However, the REAL PROOF that this is a scam is the fact that they have PLAGIARIZED word for word the very legitimate Cushman-Wakefield website!

http://www.cushwake.com/cwglobal/jsp/localHome.jsp?Country=FR

Finally, this reminded me of a another previous scam called the Beikman Group.

http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=179155&highlight=scam+job

A little research found similarities including a website that was created well before their scam started and, get this - the EXACT SAME IP ADDRESS of 31.22.4.14.

Another quick Google search revealed that the Beikman Group shared the SAME website verbiage as other proven scams such as RM Property and Property Management 21. There are probably more linked but I only looked at the first two on the Google search. Both RM Property and Property Management 21 also had websites created well before their scam started. Property Management 21 also shared the 31.22.4.14 IP address.

To sum it up, the scammers are getting better at disguising themselves. I just wonder how they can take an "old" website and restart it to make it seem as if they have been around awhile.
 
Thanks RX8. You provided a lot of interesting information. Like I said, I knew it was too good to be true but wanted to check it out mostly for my friend who really would like to sell her timeshare. I thought the website was a little too generic and slick, but having grown up in Memphis, I knew the location, so we did use Google Maps to verify the actual building that was shown in the photo.
 
There have been reports of people showing the scammers Up front Fee contracts to their Friend/family attorney and based on the "money back guarantee" recommended to go forward with the deal, only to lose the advanced funds since the validate failed to verify the legitimacy of the maker of the contract instead of relying on the face of the contract alone
 
Yes, a scam

RX8, you did excellent research!

I also received the telephone offer. I did much the same research as the rest of you with the same results and conclusions. I also asked what suite they used. Other REAL companies at that address used suite numbers. Answer? "We have the entire 9th floor." I also asked the agent to e-mail me a scan of the company's business license. Sure! Guess what? It has been a week...no business license and no more phone calls. Guess they lost interest.
 
Global Private Real Estate scam

I did some more Internet research and checked to see what businesses had offices on the 9th floor of the office building where GPRE supposedly is located. I found numerous businesses located on the 9th floor. So much for GPRE having the entire 9th floor! And ironically, guess who has an office on the ninth floor? The Better Business Bureau!!! Too funny!!!
 
Global Private Real Estate & DJR Holdings are scams

...ask me why I know! I just wished we would have found this TUG site sooner We want to make sure no one else gets caught in this Timeshare scam. Here is our story, very sad but true. These people are liars and thieves

"Global Private Real Estate, Anthony Montoya contacted us via phone in November 2012 to sell our Timeshare in Mazatlan. We hesitated but they faxed us detailed documents and put us in touch with another company called DJR Holdings. They had a professional website and they seemed to know what they were talking about. At first we were skeptical and told them that we did not want to put up any funds. They said no problem and that they already had a buyer and they would send us documents with the offer. Mary Ann/Gloria contacted us from DJR Holdings assuring us they were legit and sent us documentation. We checked their websites and all seemed fine and professional. They told us we had a deal in place and that closing would be February 2013. About 3 weeks later we received a call from Anthony Montoya saying that because our Timeshare was in Mexico they needed to send a representative to close the deal. We again were not happy with this but he offered to put up half of what it would cost and that we would be re-imbursed our portion upon the sale. So yup, we sent money. In mid January we received another call that they needed more money because the Mexican government needed to have their taxes paid up front. They made this offer sound really great because they (GRE) would pay the bigger amount up front (14,000)and they ensured us that we would get all these funds back at closing. We wired them the money. We then received another request from DJR this time saying that they could close early Feb 1, 2013 and the money would be wired into our account, but they needed 900.00 to ensure they were paid. They even told my husband that he would be so happy with their service that he would want to fly down from Canada to buy them a coffee."
What a joke this is....we never received any money on Feb 1, 2013, they would not return our calls and now DJR's website is slowly not working....no contact page, no service page.....nothing. We are so upset about this, because we got totally scammed :(

We are honest business people and sadly they sounded really honest too and I guess this is why it is a scam (they are very good at it)
Does anyone out there know if there is something we can do to attempt to get our money back or more than anything stop these guys from continuing to steal from honest people? We lost $6,000.00 US in this scam :(
 
SAME PROBLEM to us!

no1nana said:
...ask me why I know! I just wished we would have found this TUG site sooner We want to make sure no one else gets caught in this Timeshare scam. Here is our story, very sad but true. These people are liars and thieves

"Global Private Real Estate, Anthony Montoya contacted us via phone in November 2012 to sell our Timeshare in Mazatlan. We hesitated but they faxed us detailed documents and put us in touch with another company called DJR Holdings. They had a professional website and they seemed to know what they were talking about. At first we were skeptical and told them that we did not want to put up any funds. They said no problem and that they already had a buyer and they would send us documents with the offer. Mary Ann/Gloria contacted us from DJR Holdings assuring us they were legit and sent us documentation. We checked their websites and all seemed fine and professional. They told us we had a deal in place and that closing would be February 2013. About 3 weeks later we received a call from Anthony Montoya saying that because our Timeshare was in Mexico they needed to send a representative to close the deal. We again were not happy with this but he offered to put up half of what it would cost and that we would be re-imbursed our portion upon the sale. So yup, we sent money. In mid January we received another call that they needed more money because the Mexican government needed to have their taxes paid up front. They made this offer sound really great because they (GRE) would pay the bigger amount up front (14,000)and they ensured us that we would get all these funds back at closing. We wired them the money. We then received another request from DJR this time saying that they could close early Feb 1, 2013 and the money would be wired into our account, but they needed 900.00 to ensure they were paid. They even told my husband that he would be so happy with their service that he would want to fly down from Canada to buy them a coffee."
What a joke this is....we never received any money on Feb 1, 2013, they would not return our calls and now DJR's website is slowly not working....no contact page, no service page.....nothing. We are so upset about this, because we got totally scammed :(

We are honest business people and sadly they sounded really honest too and I guess this is why it is a scam (they are very good at it)
Does anyone out there know if there is something we can do to attempt to get our money back or more than anything stop these guys from continuing to steal from honest people? We lost $6,000.00 US in this scam :(
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The exact same thing happened to us! Luckily, we ran into all these complaints in the websites because I was trying to look up their phone # online! Since we had unfortunately signed the contracts (one contract with Global Private Real Estate and one with DJR Holdings), they told us that they would sue us!!! Can you believe all these scammers are trying to SUE honest people??? Where's justice in this world???

Sorry to know that you have lost so much money. Yet, at least, you are here to tell the world that this kind of scam actually exists, right here in America!
 
Empty threats...

aprettyface said:
<snip>... they told us that they would sue us!!! Can you believe all these scammers are trying to SUE honest people??? <snip>
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Not to worry; thieving parasites like this are never going to sue anyone, anywhere, for any reason. NEVER!
It's just meaningless background noise and an attempted fear tactic to try to keep you "on the hook".
It's basically an angry expression of their own bitter disappointment at likely losing a potential "mark".

Ultimately, they will simply crawl back into their little holes in the ground like the slimy little worms that they really are, only to emerge again later (...maybe with the same name, or more likely with different names) in their ongoing efforts to pickpocket the next unwitting prospect.

The last thing maggots like this want is to ever get involved with any part of the legal system.
If and when they ever do, rest assured that it will only be as the named defendants in a criminal case.
 
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Global Private Real Estate Scam

Hi, thank you very much for your words of wisdom! U r right! How can these scammers actually bring anyone to court, as they claim?! We should be the ones to bring them to court!
After I read these forum, I called the Federal Trade Commission right away, as suggested by the others. Yes, we have the obligation to let the whole world know that they are scammers!! DO NOT FALL INTO THEIR TRAPS!!!
 
Thank you for your response. As mentioned I was so sorry to not get to this site before we lost this money. Now their phone number is not longer in service. I truly hope these guys get caught and punished for their crime.
 
Sorry for your loss

For the purpose of example would you mind posting what was asked of you and if they asked more than once

I have seen many inquiries discount the warnings since none of the people responding in the thread have actually been defrauded
 
please report them and provide all your information to the state atty generals office!
 
They start off by telling us there is no money upfront and let us know that they have a byer for a double what we paid. They then send us paperwork which totally looks legit as well they have phones,, website etc. They also tell us that they work with a holding company DJR Holdings which also has their own website phone numbers, phony paperwork etc.
They keep in touch with you but initially do not ask for money BUT suddenly they need a bit of money and they will put up the bigger amount and will re-imburse us when the final amount is in.
Basically it is ONE BIG SCAM and they lie to you until they dismantle their website and their phone numbers are no longer in service. If you want names (they are probably phone) I can give them all to you. DO NOT GET FOOLED by these LIARS AND CROOKS
 
This type of Nigerian scam has been around since day of great flood.:eek:

It only survives on gullibility and greed.:eek:


There are no Tooth Fairies and Santa Clauses.:ponder:
 
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