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    Posted: 01 April 2007 at 2:36am
This company  - Travel Life Go Direct called me recently.  My story is exactly like the kid's on this website.  So far I have been billed the first $149.00.  Any suggestions as to what I should do to get my money back and avoid getting charged any more?

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Yeah that happend to me as well when I tried to reaccess the website.  Odd.  Anyways, this is what it says:

I was contacted by a Travel life go direct agent in the begining of march. She told me that I was eligible for a free package. She also mentioned to me, that she was going to add on two bonus packages for "free"..All I had to do was verify some information. In order to proove my identity, they need to obtain my account number.

I recieved the package, I opened it immediatly, and called Travel life go direct at 1-866-558-4013. In their main menu I was giving a list of options. I pressed option 8, which was to "cancel free membership trials." It was all too easy, In just a few seconds, the machine told me that my membership was succesfully cancelled. I assumed that the 2 bonuses, would be cancelled along with the cancelation, I had made in Travel life go direct.

On March 12th, I went Puerto Rico for an emergency. I called my bank just to confirm how much money I had left. I was told my account was overdrafted by $37.00. I was so upset. The associate of the bank said It was an electronic check made do Florida go direct (which was affiliated with Travel life go direct). The total amount of the check was $149.00

I called Florida go direct, and they told me they could do nothing on this matter. Meaning they could not give me my money back. They re-cancelled my membership on March 17th. I got a conformation number. Two weeks later, another check cleared in the amount of $59.95, for travel life go direct. At this point I knew this was a scham! I called Travel life, and spoke to an associate. She told me, that no cancellation was ever made, that was why I was billed.

Both companies, said that if I wanted my money back, I had to write a letter, and wait to get my money back (that was if I got it back). That my letter would be responded in the order it was recieved.

Today, March 29th. I got a letter from my bank, that my account was again over drafted. That another check cleared for the amount of $49.95, from a company named Lucid (another company associated with Travel life go direct).

I am a college student, and I can not afford such companies to be going into my bank account, and taking money whenever they please. I have tried to freeze my account, but for some reason, these 3 companies, keep getting access to my account.

Such companies should not be in business.
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That's a scam if i ever heard one,not sure what you can do about it now it seems they have there claws in ya bank account and i dont think they are going to let you go so easy...maybe because they have all your details??..the bank keeps giving them access to your account.

these guys are good at what they do thats for sure.

i guess you could close your bank account,but i think maybe these guys would stack you up for bad credit as well since they cant hack your account any longer

it sounds like fraud if they they keep giving your bank more information  to take more money from your account  and i'd say they are changing the dates of approval maybe?.. call the f.b.i. fraud squad if they have one sorry but good luck
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So why did you sign up to the company to begin with?

And what does the company do?
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Originally posted by Monk Monk wrote:

So why did you sign up to the company to begin with?

And what does the company do?


Because I had just woken up and the offer they presented me with sounded pretty good - $400 in free airplane tickets for just reviewing their stuff.

They are supposed to be a travel agency place.
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id close your acount and start up a new one, If i was you. watch who you give your info out to.

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You're sitting on top of a gold mine.  Hire a lawyer, and sue them for unauthorized dealings with your bank account. It's a federal offense, and you should sue them for every penny they are worth. 
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obviously better huh usaf


Hardly.  Just under house arrest.  Not sure what youre trying to say.
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like usfa.  sue them.  you probably won't need a good lawyer for this case if one is needed at all.  well good luck.  and if sueing them doesn't work, i would close my bank account and get a new one.

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Originally posted by usafpilot07 usafpilot07 wrote:

Originally posted by Razgriz Ghost Razgriz Ghost wrote:

obviously better huh usaf


Hardly.  Just under house arrest.  Not sure what youre trying to say.

I thought you got hit in the head with a baseball and went to the hospital?
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Originally posted by usafpilot07 usafpilot07 wrote:

Originally posted by Razgriz Ghost Razgriz Ghost wrote:

obviously better huh usaf


Hardly.  Just under house arrest.  Not sure what youre trying to say.

I thought you got hit in the head with a baseball and went to the hospital?



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Alright, get a hold of the state's Attorney General, explain to their office what is going on and that you want to their help. Get yourself a lawyer willing to hear your situation and give you advice pro-bono since you're a college kid. Explain the whole thing to them and send copies of everything you've got to both the AG and lawyer. You're dealing with wire-fraud here, it's a HUGE felony, and you should be able to get your money back at the very least. Also, contact your bank and tell them to refuse payment (stop checks) to any of those companies. Also, request that the bank set you up with a new account as that one has been compromised. This will keep you from getting any ore drafts on your account in the mean-time.
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or just watch what account is taking the founds and have a friend hack them and steal more then enough money for combensate
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Originally posted by tallen702 tallen702 wrote:

Alright, get a hold of the state's Attorney General, explain to their office what is going on and that you want to their help. Get yourself a lawyer willing to hear your situation and give you advice pro-bono since you're a college kid. Explain the whole thing to them and send copies of everything you've got to both the AG and lawyer. You're dealing with wire-fraud here, it's a HUGE felony, and you should be able to get your money back at the very least. Also, contact your bank and tell them to refuse payment (stop checks) to any of those companies. Also, request that the bank set you up with a new account as that one has been compromised. This will keep you from getting any ore drafts on your account in the mean-time.


But what proof do I have? All I currently have is my bank account statement and their brochure.  I can't prove I was fraudulently billed with just that.  I can state that I attempted to call and cancel the trial account, but they can just deny that.
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Trust me, the Attorney General will take up the cause on your behalf. Send them a Cease and Desist, CC it to the AG, and the branch manager of your bank, also keep a copy for yourself. If they don't, then you've got them nailed for a lawsuit and you probably wouldn't have to pay for college after that....
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