I found an online site that offered reasonable prices. Put the item in my "cart, " entered all my info, including credit card, pressed SEND. A few seconds later, I got a message that my order failed because "Billing Address of my VISA card did not match" the one I entered. So, I did it two more times, same strange message. Never completed my order, so I just logged off.
A few hours later, I found that the company had billed my card ($124) for the item I tried to purchase with no success. Not only that, but they had charged me THREE times total (the exact number of times I tried to submit the info.)
I smelled scam. Checked the site again -- no phone number, just email and physical address:
4915 Bathurst St.
Unit #209
Toronto, ON M2R 1X9
Canada
email: [email protected]
(You'll probably not be surprised that my emails to them have been unacknowledged...)
I ran that address through an Internet search to find that same address as the base of a number of different scams, from auto parts to public record searches. See for yourself: https://scam.m2osw.com/vital-records.html
They were also known as "CIS Worldwide" in summer 2006, a company that has been featured on canada-complaints.com before.
I've never been scammed before-- after 15 years of internet online shopping -- but this one got me.
Tom
Nagoya
Japan
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