Fargo & Associates

[daburck]

We have had an offer by Fargo & Associates [Virginia Beach?] to purchase our Vidanta resort in Mexico. I can find nothing to vet or verify this company. Where might we find any information or reviews about this company?

 

[VacationForever]

Scam, just run.

 

[DeniseM]

This is 99% likely to be a scam, because you can acquire timeshares in Mexico for free, so no knowledgeable company will pay for them.

This is how it usually goes: You sign their phony paperwork and things seem to be sailing along towards a big check, when all of the sudden the company tells you that you have to pay some kind of large fee to proceed. They may call it taxes, escrow, closing costs, title fees, commission, or other words that "sound" legit.

They assure you that the funds will go into a licensed escrow account and you will be refunded after the close of escrow. They will even name a well-know escrow company and send you a link to the company website.

After you agree to pay the fee - they will send you a link to a bank account to wire the money to.

After you wire the money, they will disappear with your money and you will not be able to contact them - because that's all they were after. Even worse, they had you (unwittingly) wire the funds outside the US - and the money is long gone.

There is no buyer.
There is no offer.
There no deal.

It's just a scam...

 

[RX8]

Did they contact you out of the blue saying they wanted to buy your timeshare for many thousands of dollars? If so it is a very common scam. They are not at the address they claim to be. They are likely in Mexico where authorities can’t reach them. If you check their website you will find it was created a month or so ago, a reason why you can’t find anything on them. They will promise no upfront costs but once they have you hooked they will ask for a title fee, Mexican tax, hair tax... doesn’t matter what they call it because it will be bogus.

 

[RX8]

Found their website. They claim 12 years in business but the website was created April 2018. This is a confirmed scam.

Scammers are lazy too because they just copy web verbiage from their prior websites or other legit websites. I Googled a couple of sentences from their “about us” page and found six other websites using the same language, probably the same scammer behind all of them. Scammers need to change their name often because word gets out they are scamming people.

Hopefully others contacted by these scammers will Google the company and see these posts. This will not deter the scammers but will just cause them to create another website as they try to stay one step ahead of the bad press.

 

[dayooper]

Did they contact you out of the blue saying they wanted to buy your timeshare for many thousands of dollars? If so it is a very common scam. They are not at the address they claim to be. They are likely in Mexico where authorities can’t reach them. If you check their website you will find it was created a month or so ago, a reason why you can’t find anything on them. They will promise no upfront costs but once they have you hooked they will ask for a title fee, Mexican tax, hair tax... doesn’t matter what they call it because it will be bogus.

Found their website. They claim 12 years in business but the website was created April 2018. This is a confirmed scam.

Scammers are lazy too because the just copy web verbiage from themselves or other legit websites. I Googled a couple of sentences from their “about us” page and found six other websites using the same language, probably the same scammer behind all of them. Scammers need to change their name often because word gets out they are scamming people.

@RX8 sleuths them out again. Now if they only had a Georgina.

 

[daburck]

Thanks for replies. I asked for references and they wouldn't provide any. Very classy website. Very well-spoken rep who called. Too many red flags. And finally, if it sounds too good to be true, it likely is too good to be true!

 

[Passepartout]

And if the above isn't enough, I'm wagering that THEY CALLED YOU. Nobody EVER called someone to give them money! EVER! FAR-GO and associates wants to GO-FAR on your money.

Jim

 

[RX8]

I copied the sentence below directly from their website and made a correction for them.

 

[chapjim]

We have had an offer by Fargo & Associates [Virginia Beach?] to purchase our Vidanta resort in Mexico. I can find nothing to vet or verify this company. Where might we find any information or reviews about this company?

Heckuva deal! What could go wrong?

 

[LaLa0909]

We have had an offer by Fargo & Associates [Virginia Beach?] to purchase our Vidanta resort in Mexico. I can find nothing to vet or verify this company. Where might we find any information or reviews about this company?

Same here - THIRD OFFER this week! SD Dynamics offered as well - they sent the 'bank forms' but once I said the form was not legit (mix of English/Spanish) and that the author of the form was not a bank employee, I never heard back. Also call from PNI Marketing - they are sure coming out of the wood work!

 

[LaLa0909]

Did they contact you out of the blue saying they wanted to buy your timeshare for many thousands of dollars? If so it is a very common scam. They are not at the address they claim to be. They are likely in Mexico where authorities can’t reach them. If you check their website you will find it was created a month or so ago, a reason why you can’t find anything on them. They will promise no upfront costs but once they have you hooked they will ask for a title fee, Mexican tax, hair tax... doesn’t matter what they call it because it will be bogus.

How do you tell when the website was set up? I had 3 different companies contact me in the last 2 weeks. How do they get our names?

 

[tschwa2]

How do you tell when the website was set up? I had 3 different companies contact me in the last 2 weeks. How do they get our names?

Employees of the timeshare developer and ex-employees get money for selling list of owners to these companies or the companies might be staffed by an ex employee.

 

[HudsHut]

David & Burckhardt and LaLa:
Also, it does not matter what the name of the company is. They change their names frequently to hide from the last victim and move on to the next target.

 

[TUGBrian]

already raising red flags just on the description, id bet youll find more using this checklist:

https://tug2.net/timeshare_advice/timeshare_company_legitimate.html

 

[RX8]

How do you tell when the website was set up? I had 3 different companies contact me in the last 2 weeks. How do they get our names?

To find out when a particular website was created I use https://who.is/ . Just enter the website into the search field.

I looked up your SD Dynamics. They claim on their website that they have been in business since 2009 but...their website was created April 19, 2018 so we know that these are scum sucking scammers. Below is the info from Who.is.

Scammers will also use other legit websites to make theirs look more real. Below is a comparison between SD Dynamics "About Us" page and the "About Us" page from a website called Nurse Call Tech. The scammer has clearly used this website as a model for theirs, right down to the fonts, layout and some of the verbiage.

http://www.sddynamics.com/about.html
http://www.nursecalltech.com/about.html

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Same here - THIRD OFFER this week! SD Dynamics offered as well - they sent the 'bank forms' but once I said the form was not legit (mix of English/Spanish) and that the author of the form was not a bank employee, I never heard back. Also call from PNI Marketing - they are sure coming out of the wood work!

Yeah - once one scammer has your contact information / they all have your contact information .

The call I got last month : wanted to know if my Mayan Palace was in points or weeks .
I said - "if you don't know how the resort works - you're wasting my time "
SHE hung up .

The only unique thing was it was the first female scammer call I have received -
but probably not the last .