These people call me all day long. They claim they can make me rich. The company is Direct Connect Communcations out of Bronx, NY.
I just posted to RipOffReport .com This is my comment to an employee of Direct Connect Communications requesting the name be "corrected" (from DCC to Money by Web)...
See how they work this?
This is how Direct Connect Communications was able to keep their A rating with the BBB for so long & why Money by Web is NOT mentioned until it is time to hand over your credit card info.
Anytime the two are linked together in a complaint, DCC acts like they have nothing to do with MbW & ask for the name to "be corrected".
Oh, trust me.
They had it right the first time!
Those of us that have been ripped-off by BOTH Direct Connect Communications & Money by Web, working as a team, know better.
I want to know why the BBB rated DCC with an A rating back in January 2010, when I was SCAMMED, but now if you look for DCC on the BBB website the search results are: "There are no results for 'Direct Connect Communications' within Phoenix, AZ."
Where did they go?
I paid $399 for a so-call "Merchant Referral Certificate" so I could "sell" credit card machines.
The certificate looks like something a seven year old printed off the computer.
It is not worth the paper it was printed it on, let alone two hundred bucks!
BTW, the receipt said NOTHING about a merchant referral cert.
It said the $399 charge was for a "Full Affiliate Training Manual".
But there was never was any "training"!
The packet was just as vague as they had been on the phone.
I was never really supposed to "DO" anything.
Only after I had handed over my credit card number did I discover I was supposed to make the initial contact (through PAID advertising - paid to Money by Web) & it would be handed over to some mystery person to do the actual selling.
(Remind me what I paid $399 for again???)
I wouldn't even get to SEE what I paid for - had I actually gone that route.
In other words, my "job" was to give them access to my credit cards so they could "advertise *my* business" - a "business" I had NO control over.
Moe Robbins set me up with my "training coaches".
What a JOKE.
My "coaches" wanted to know how many more credit cards I had & how much of a credit I had available for use.
When I refused to hand over my other credit card numbers for "advertising" it got REALLY interesting.
Let me back up.
The first call came from Dave Johnson & his side kick Ivan (Stevens).
Even though I was told SEVERAL times the $399 would be my only cost, Dave wanted to charge me an additional SIX THOUSAND dollars for advertising for "my business".
After an hour or so of badgering, I VERY reluctantly said yes.
The next day the Fedex package arrived with my Money by Web packet of junk.
In it was the Credit Card Charge Authorization for six thousand dollars.
That piece of paper stated the $8000 was for "Weekly Coaching Sessions", NOT advertising!!!
I was told more than once it was important for me to sign it & fax it back "first thing in the morning".
But after sleeping on it & talking it over with my husband, I changed my mind.
(BTW, they suggested I NOT discuss it with my husband.
"A lot of women just do it" & "I'd earn back the money before he even knew it was charged to the account.")
I didn't sign it or fax it back.
I apologized to Dave & told him I wouldn't be going that route.
The second call was from Chris Michaels.
Chris said he could "advertising" for me for half of the first offer.
(Both were were offering advertising I'd never be able to verify btw.)
And after an hour on the phone with Chris, he became frustrated with me & told me I was "acting like a spoiled brat"!
You know, because he was "trying to help me get out of debt" & I was refusing to add 6-3 thousand MORE to that debt.
After that comment I was 110% SURE they were crooks.
I told Chris to never call my home again.
So, because I was lied to, & was not willing to fork over THOUSANDS more, that $399 "Certificate" was completely useless to me.
It took me five months to get the $399 charge off my credit card.
Two weeks later, 12/1/2010, even though I had reported my card as STOLEN, because of these scam artist, Money by Web charged my card AGAIN!
My credit card rep told me it was run through as a "R*****ING CHARGE".
That is definite fraud right there!
This was NOT a r*****ing charge.
It was NOT authorized.
They accessed my new card number illegally.
Well, that charge has AGAIN been disputed, my account is now permanently CLOSED, & I WILL get my money back.
They should have left well enough alone.
Now my mission in life is to expose BOTH companies for what they really are.
And I'll be talking to the Attorney General & the FBI to see what they have to say about Direct Connect Communications & their relationship with Money by Web.
DCC & MbW, if you happen upon this - FU!
I told you right off the bat if you were scamming me I'd get ya!
DO NOT DO ANY BUSINESS WITH DIRECT CONNECT COMMUNCATIONS!