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I've been contacted by some companies wanting me to sell my accumulated Bones Weeks "to make some money". They've claimed "corporate buyers" interested for their "seminar clients". It only costs me $399 per bonus week to cover the RCI exchange fee. I would receive $1800-2200 per week deposited. Anyone else getting these "OFFERS" or used them in the past. My funds would be received 60-90 days from the time I "Paid the RCI fee".... comments..??
 

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I've been contacted by some companies wanting me to sell my accumulated Bones Weeks "to make some money". They've claimed "corporate buyers" interested for their "seminar clients". It only costs me $399 per bonus week to cover the RCI exchange fee. I would receive $1800-2200 per week deposited. Anyone else getting these "OFFERS" or used them in the past. My funds would be received 60-90 days from the time I "Paid the RCI fee".... comments..??
This is a well known, well-documented scam. Do not take any more phone calls from them, hopefully you haven't already given them money. There are no bonus weeks, even if there were bonus weeks, you're not allowed to rent RCI exchanges, and even if you could do both of those if a company had a guaranteed way to generate money off them then why on earth would they need an upfront payment, or even better yet, why would they need you at all?
 
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Definitely a scam. Once you pay them, you'll never see the promised $1800-2200 per week.

RCI & II don't allow the rental of exchange weeks. You can lose your membership, pending exchanges & deposited weeks if you get caught.
 

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I've been contacted by some companies wanting me to sell my accumulated Bones Weeks "to make some money". They've claimed "corporate buyers" interested for their "seminar clients". It only costs me $399 per bonus week to cover the RCI exchange fee. I would receive $1800-2200 per week deposited. Anyone else getting these "OFFERS" or used them in the past. My funds would be received 60-90 days from the time I "Paid the RCI fee".... comments..??
I think every timeshare owner has been, or will be, contacted by one of these scammers.

A Nigerian Prince is interested in buying your unused timeshare weeks. He will offer you $1 trillion a week because he has a big family and lots of business partners who can't find any other place to stay. All he needs in return is for you to send him $399.99 upfront and 90 days later he will send you the $1 trillion.

The reason he needs 90 days is it takes a long time to pack. It has nothing to do with the clock running out on disputing a credit card purchase or anything like that. Just think of all the luggage a prince and his family have!

Anyway, I hope describing it like this makes it seem less lucrative!

There are so many prepayment scams out there. They all work the same way. I will give you an unlimited amount of wealth if you FIRST send me $$$$$.
 

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I think every timeshare owner has been, or will be, contacted by one of these scammers.

A Nigerian Prince is interested in buying your unused timeshare weeks. He will offer you $1 trillion a week because he has a big family and lots of business partners who can't find any other place to stay. All he needs in return is for you to send him $399.99 upfront and 90 days later he will send you the $1 trillion.

The reason he needs 90 days is it takes a long time to pack. It has nothing to do with the clock running out on disputing a credit card purchase or anything like that. Just think of all the luggage a prince and his family have!

Anyway, I hope describing it like this makes it seem less lucrative!

There are so many prepayment scams out there. They all work the same way. I will give you an unlimited amount of wealth if you FIRST send me $$$$$.
Is it a Nigerian prince or an Indian/Pakistan scammer. All the scam calls I have been getting (nearly every single day) are from that region of the world not from Africa.
 

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Nah. They are still there. Others have taken over. The calls are mostly from India/Pakistan (lots of video on YouTube of people hacking them).
I also get text messages. Act like they know me and are usually offer a female name. Then they say: oops sorry, I was trying to reach so so and so. BTW way how are you doing...... My name is .......There have been new recent news stories that not only are those sending those texts likely male, they may also be held against their wish.
The "Nigerian Prince" scam name has stuck. But I have not been getting those for a while now. However, I have been bombarded daily from the Asian scammers. Sometimes I answer the phone by mistake and I discover it is them. If I am not busy, I will not hang up. I will drag that conversation as long as I can before they hang up once they figure the gig is up.
 
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