Gay scammer Mike Lillibridge of JCS Enterprises may be involved in this scam. He sells personal information of people he gathers from giveaways at events, and he is involved with many gay magazine and other porn. It would be no surprise therefore to believe he'd be mixed up in this magazine scam.
Got a call from this number. Did not answer. I have reason to believe it is readers club home office. They have been pestering me for awhile now. They try to scam you out of money. I blocked most of the numbers they call from but now they are using new ones apparently.
I found a call on my cell phone from this number. Did not know they called until now but don't know this number anyway and I don't answer numbers I don't recognize. I don't belong to any Readers Club, if this is indeed the number of one, and will not fall for any scam of theirs.
I picked up the call. Turns out they are associated with the magazine scam circle. If you have ever fallen victim to one of them (that was me three/four years ago), they will circulate your information to "other" companies and try to get you to renew. This time they stated that I am on their automatic renewal for the next five years unless I explicitly state I do not want a renewal. Then they ask you to "confirm" your address, credit card number, last four digits of social...yeah. *click* Just don't bother. In the past, I ignored other "companies" that tried to get me to renew. So this one should be no different.
My subscription from the ordeal three/four years ago is coming to an end, so I sent out emails to all the associated magazine publishers to not renew my order ESPECIALLY if it was requested by an external source. Often times the publishers will just direct you right back to the scam circle for "billing inquiries." What a headache.
I received a call from 475-422-7112 earlier today. The caller "Becky" was calling to confirm my magazines were arriving on time and in good condition. Almost five years ago I fell for the "scam." It took me almost three years (and $$hundreds) to finally get it stopped--so I thought. The original sale was two school kids, door-to-door, fund raising for a school club trip. I filled out the paperwork and a call from "Reader's Services of America" to make payment. I chose my credit card. The original signup was for five magazines for $4.99 a month, each. Apparently, that was the first month trial. I started getting charged $69.99 a month for the next couple of years. All said, the contract was for 60 months for $1,400.00. I didn't pay that, but it did cost me hundreds before I found out about the whole scam.
Once I found out about the scam (about six months into the ordeal) I tried to cancel. I called the number on the credit card statement and end up talking to everyone that couldn't do anything because I was under contract and had to pay. I made many threats about going to the Better Business Bureau and even said I had a lawyer. After making payments for almost three years my credit card expired. I cut up the replacement card and called the credit card company and reported it lost or stolen from the mail. I received a new card (different number) and was informed that I needed to informed all of the new number.
I thought I was finally done with the company. They call me and said I was being sent to the credit collectors, but I had an option to buy out the rest of the contract at a one-time discount price. Wanting it to be complete, I paid around $400 to them to finalize it. That was with Readers Services of America. Since then I have received calls from America's Choice Reader Service, American Preferred Readers Service, Americans Readers Service, and the latest, America's Reader Service (475-422-7112). They all have had that original credit card number on file, and they all have had the list of magazines and my address.