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.
I've been scammed before and in the process of trying to rid of these magazines that I dont even read about. But I know I have bad credit because of these people and just want it to end anyone got any information or updates? I got a call yesterday on 1/15/2014 and they are trying to milk me even more for $44.50 for 30 months and they gave me the bullcrap you on the renewal already when I clearly didnt want it.
They call and request your personal information, including your card numbers to "verify that they have the correct information to cancel". Bull, I never ordered any magazines to begin with. They have been calling me for months from several different numbers, this is just the newest number. Please don't fall for this! NEVER give your personal information to anyone on the phone like this.
My son also fell for this scam about 3 years ago . . . in an effort to stop the pain he made a single "final" payment, but there is no way to stop the magazines, so every month they go right from the mailbox to the re-cycle bin. Right before Christmas I happened to over hear him getting ready to give his credit card number again, but was I was able to intervene before he finished. He was told that the money he had already paid was only for the first half of a 60 month agreement. I took the phone and asked what else he could possible owe after paying $1,700!!!!!!!! I was informed that the company didn't even have a plan for that much money, so I requested information be mailed to us . . . still waiting. Since then, my son has received 3 other calls, and has on all 3 occasions made it very clear that he was cancelling his "membership" and never wanted any more magazines from them. Each time he was told that his account was closed and that his name was removed from their data base. Guess who called this morning!!!!
Is it worth calling the BBB? Can they do anything to help?
Am receiving about 1 call a week from this number asking me about my magazine service. They have an incredibly old address of mine on file from almost 10 years ago. I've never had a magazine service so I don't know how they received my information. I asked them to take me off their calling list and the guy said that in order for him to do that he needed to "verify" my address, phone number, social security number and credit card information. I have now said no between 6-7 times. I have tried to file a complaint with BBB but because I don't have an address for them, I can't. It's seriously ticking me off.