PagoPago
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- Joined
- Apr 11, 2018
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- Resorts Owned
- Mayan Palace / Riviera Maya
I knew these companies were probably scammers in offering to buy my Mayan Palace membership for 4 times what I paid for it. They have perfected their MO and look and act very professional. Probably easily fooling anyone that has no experience in the type of fraud they perpetrate. There are also many companies using the exact same approach. In the last 6 Months I have had at least 6 companies call me with same approach and process. Its like they all went to a seminar somewhere and were taught how best to defraud Time Share owners.
I searched the internet for both company names and only got results that were not related to their scam operations, except one link related to CCW Holdings took me to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) website were they have 25 pages of people complaining or asking about timeshare purchase scams. Many many names of Time Share purchase scammer company are discussed on the FTC web site forum. It makes very interesting and educational reading, unless your reading the post after you have been scammed and are trying to figure out what happened to you after the fact that is !. Look at it if you want to see more about how these scammers work their fraud with their new technique of "just let us send you an offer, nothing to sign and no money from you required" And then where that eventually leads to if you bite, for this new approach to steal your money from you.
Also there appears to currently be no information about these two companies named as fraudsters here on the TUG Forum. So that is why I am posting the story below so that members of TUG can at least easily find out about these two companies right here on TUG with a simple search request.
I could not find any corroborating information or complaints about them until I came across the following very recent post of April 2018 by a single reviewer on YELP who posted the following experience.
Review by:
Joseph S.
Santa Cruz, CA
This company is a scam and they are committing fraud. First I was contacted by Sarah Steiner at NBC telling me that they had buyers interested in buying my time share in MX for a very good price. Then I was sent a Purchase and Sales Agreement and provided with money from the buyer going into an escrow account at Citibanamex in MX operated by the title company CCW Holdings. At first they said the two companies are separate and now I learn they are the same company that is scamming me and committing fraud. They convinced me that money had to be wired to MX government for taxes to be paid on the transaction, then they show that the funds are put in my escrow account by the seller. Then after sending the first wire for $3,138 to cover the taxpayer ID requirement, then I am surprised to have to pay Jalisco sales tax of $3897.19. Once again the escrow agent/Title company CCW shows me a statement that the funds are in my account and paid by the buyer so I wired the additional money. Then I get another letter saying that there needs to be paid legal an recording Fees of $4352. Once again the escrow statement shows me the funds are in the CitiBanamex account under my name for this amount and is paid by seller so I wired those funds as well. Then another surprise, they send me a letter from the MX SAT tax office stating that my escrow account has been frozen by the MX government agency and the only way to unfreeze my account is by sending another $5261 to a MX lawyer (all payments have gone to this lawyer on my behalf). I stupidly believed this and sent that money as well thinking finally the deal will close. Only to now get another letter stating that they want me to wire another $8,745 to the same SAT office on behalf of CitiBanamex as collateral because they fear my account is involved in money laundering of fraud. Finally I realize this is a total scam. I have now done 4 wires totaling $16,648 into this supposed escrow account at Citibanamex that is all fraudulent and I am out the money. They use a very convincing set of documents making all this look legitimate and it is not. It's a complete scam. Please help and expose these criminals.
I searched the internet for both company names and only got results that were not related to their scam operations, except one link related to CCW Holdings took me to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) website were they have 25 pages of people complaining or asking about timeshare purchase scams. Many many names of Time Share purchase scammer company are discussed on the FTC web site forum. It makes very interesting and educational reading, unless your reading the post after you have been scammed and are trying to figure out what happened to you after the fact that is !. Look at it if you want to see more about how these scammers work their fraud with their new technique of "just let us send you an offer, nothing to sign and no money from you required" And then where that eventually leads to if you bite, for this new approach to steal your money from you.
Also there appears to currently be no information about these two companies named as fraudsters here on the TUG Forum. So that is why I am posting the story below so that members of TUG can at least easily find out about these two companies right here on TUG with a simple search request.
I could not find any corroborating information or complaints about them until I came across the following very recent post of April 2018 by a single reviewer on YELP who posted the following experience.
Review by:
Joseph S.
Santa Cruz, CA
This company is a scam and they are committing fraud. First I was contacted by Sarah Steiner at NBC telling me that they had buyers interested in buying my time share in MX for a very good price. Then I was sent a Purchase and Sales Agreement and provided with money from the buyer going into an escrow account at Citibanamex in MX operated by the title company CCW Holdings. At first they said the two companies are separate and now I learn they are the same company that is scamming me and committing fraud. They convinced me that money had to be wired to MX government for taxes to be paid on the transaction, then they show that the funds are put in my escrow account by the seller. Then after sending the first wire for $3,138 to cover the taxpayer ID requirement, then I am surprised to have to pay Jalisco sales tax of $3897.19. Once again the escrow agent/Title company CCW shows me a statement that the funds are in my account and paid by the buyer so I wired the additional money. Then I get another letter saying that there needs to be paid legal an recording Fees of $4352. Once again the escrow statement shows me the funds are in the CitiBanamex account under my name for this amount and is paid by seller so I wired those funds as well. Then another surprise, they send me a letter from the MX SAT tax office stating that my escrow account has been frozen by the MX government agency and the only way to unfreeze my account is by sending another $5261 to a MX lawyer (all payments have gone to this lawyer on my behalf). I stupidly believed this and sent that money as well thinking finally the deal will close. Only to now get another letter stating that they want me to wire another $8,745 to the same SAT office on behalf of CitiBanamex as collateral because they fear my account is involved in money laundering of fraud. Finally I realize this is a total scam. I have now done 4 wires totaling $16,648 into this supposed escrow account at Citibanamex that is all fraudulent and I am out the money. They use a very convincing set of documents making all this look legitimate and it is not. It's a complete scam. Please help and expose these criminals.
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