I read the Conquest Financial Services RipOffReport.Com allegations about Jeremy Murray below, from April, 2012, and, if they are true, this absolutely should make anyone upset!
These are the allegations in that RipOffReport:
"Conquest Financial Services Jeremy Murray Beware doing business with Conquest Financial Services. From their salesman, to the owners will never be there for you after you sign up a contract that's designed to completely rip you off. Totonto, Ontario Canada
Submitted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Reported By: Emma — Etobicoke Ontario Canada
Conquest Financial Services
326 Adelaide St. West, Suite 400, Totonto Ontario M9C 4X1 Canada
Conquest Financial Services was represented to me by Paul Murton as a sales agent. Once the terminal was installed and I had problems with it, he's gone! I would call their office and he no longer works there. Whenever I called their office for questions about billings and problems with my terminal, I never got any proper support. Once I got through (after many attempts) their tech guy Farouk for help, he came to my house and I had to give him $30 just so I could get my terminal running again. To top it all, you will be billed by 2 other companies that are based in US!
I can't remember the number of times they put me on hold only to be cut off for reasons only they know. All they do is charge your account without invoice, no explanation and you are left in the dark as to what they are for. They are defensive and rude and you will be shocked at how these people suck you dry. Cancellation fee is $700 and I am stuck with a terminal that they said they can't repair because it will be just as expensive than getting a new one. They said I can't have it repaired because that will mean I have tampered with the machine! Where do I turn then.
Now the terminal does not work and I owe another $1700 to Northern Leasing Company that's based in US, that these leeches are working with to scam people. Yes, CONQUEST financed my terminal through a company based in US with a Canadian address in its letterhead. Be forewarned and never come close to these company or you will find that these sharks are still very much a part of this society. I just hope that they meet their karma soon!"
http://www.ripoffreport.com/credit-card-fraud/conquest-financial-s/conquest-financial-services-je-6000b.htm
Then I read all of the RipOffReport alleged scam and alleged fraud pages on Jeremy Murray and Conquest Financial Services on the RipOffReport.com site at http://www.ripoffreport.com/credit-card-processing-companies/conquest-financial-s/conquest-financial-services-je-c8cb3.htm and got really, really disgusted!
Then I read the ScamInformer.Com allegations mentioning Michael Shvartsman, the Russian Mafia, Admeris Payment Systems, jeremy Murray, Conquest Financial, Fraud And Organized Crime etc. at http://www.scaminformer.com/scam-report/fraud-and-organized-crime-how-is-it-that-people-suspected-c17189.html - the same 'Fraud and Organized Crime' allegations appear on the RipoffReport.com site under the heading 'Conquest Financial Services Jeremy Murray SCAM ARTIST, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE Toronto, Ontario Fraud and Organized Crime' at http://www.ripoffreport.com/credit-card-processing-companies/conquest-financial-s/conquest-financial-services-je-c8cb3.htm - and I was astonished!
Then I read the allegations from Conquest Financial Services 'ex-employees' - "Conquest Financial Scam Misleading claims, horrible customer service & cancellation fee Toronto Ontario - I was not a client but am actually an ex-employee who left Conquest Financial within the past few months (because I realized exactly how bad I was scamming clients), I reveal everything they are trying to hide from you..." at http://www.ripoffreport.com/financial-services/conquest-financial-s/conquest-financial-scam-mislea-nd6dn.htm AND "they are a scam. I used to work there myself and found this blog post here - http://conquest-financial-scam.blogspot.com/ . That accurately describes how they scam their customers. With regards to how they treat you as an employee, they will save you should be making at least $500 a week, however most only make $200-$300 a week - and these are the openers that are good enough to stay. Some would actually be making $0 a week if they stayed. They also treat your paycheck like a loss of profit for them and it's a hassle to get paid. Never work at conquest financial" at http://forums.redflagdeals.com/conquest-financial-services-scam-736019/ and felt sick again!
Then I re-read again the first part of "Fraud and Organized Crime How is it that people suspected of having ties to Organized Crime are able to start up a Business that is involved with the collection of Credit Card Transactions and Money Lending. The Shvartsman Family from Toronto Ontario, Klara, Michael and Gerald, owners of the long deceased million dollar nightclub in the West Edmonton Mall known as KAOS, were accused of having ties to the Russian Mafia by the Edmonton Police Services. This action along with the police warning people to not go to this nightclub for safety reasons resulted in the Shvartsman’s closing the bar in the late 1990’s. Law Suits followed and The Shvartsman family left Edmonton, to return to Toronto and also set up roots in Boynton Beach Florida..." at http://www.scaminformer.com/scam-report/fraud-and-organized-crime-how-is-it-that-people-suspected-c17189.html
Then I read the posting by 'Boynton Beach' above: "I've been reading the allegations in the ScamInformer.Com report 'Fraud and Organized Crime' at http://www.scaminformer.com/scam-report/fraud-and-organized-crime-how-is-it-that-people-suspected-c17189.html with interest.
Russian Mafia allegations? Boynton Beach, Florida?
Hmmm....!
This is from a June 1, 2011, story in the Palm Beach Post, Florida, headlined 'Russian Mob Influence Growing In South Florida, FBI Says'
"Authorities say the case is a sign of the mob from the former Soviet Union reaching deeper into South Florida to commit "any type of fraud you can think of," said Brodsky, in charge of the Miami FBI's organized crime squad. Their stocks in trade: credit card fraud, cybercrime, human trafficking, prostitution, drugs, extortion and arms smuggling."
See http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/russia ... rida-f-1/nLssD/
'Credit card fraud'?
If this ScamInformer report's 'Russian Mafia' allegations are founded in fact, this may be relevant or it may be not...."
Seeing these 'Russian Mafia' and 'credit card fraud' allegations, for some reason all I could think of in relation to the opportunities offered by credit card fraud as against credit card processing, without making any specific, express or implied scamming allegations about Ameris Payment Systems or Conquest Financial Services myself, was that famous quote from Teddy Roosevelt: "The uneducated man robs the train. The educated man steals the railroad."! That shrewd quote may be relevant here or it may not be.
Now I don't know if the allegations previously mentioned above are true or not, but there do seem to be a lot of them and they certainly do seem to raise some very unsavory questions.
According to another post above by 'Going Global' in reference to the alleged scamming by Conquest Financial, Toronto, Conquest Financial Services are now seeking "top sales superstars with a hunter mentality to develop new business opportunities globally".
Conquest Financial Services, Toronto, with a string of RipOffReport.Com scam allegations, is now going GLOBAL???
It would appear that the number belongs to a dialing system for Conquest Financial. Upon a second call to them requesting my number be removed and assured that it would be yet again, I was actually hung-up on before dictating the remainder of the digits in my phone number. I implore ANYONE using CONQUEST FINANCIAL SERVICES (should their name not be forewarnming enough!) to protest and refrain from putting any revenue in their pockets so they may continue to abuse our privacy and public phone system. If you knowingly use their services I can only hope that your peace ad privacy are disturbed as your reward.
I've gotten two calls from them as well....and the connection seemed a little scratchy the whole time, but they wanted a copy of my merchant statements to determine how big of a cash advance I qualified for. With no interest apparently! Riiiiiiiiight.
That, and they're using a very very outdated phone number list, since they called my number and asked for a business that had it maybe 5 years ago. If they can't even get a current list, it's a pretty transparent scam right from square one.