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Re: GETTING THE FBI INVOLVED IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE BEEN SCAMMED (by Jeannette S.):
I've been in this situation too. Prestige Timeshare called me (MARY LEE, was the representative) and charged to my credit card $699.00 upfront fee right away for marketing my property. They sent me a "contract" that I signed. Then after one month a have not heard a word about them. Their website does not longer exists and they have changed their name to American Marketing Timeshare. I've talked to several people there and all of them claim they are not "Prestige" and they don't know anything about that company. But what's curious and suspicious is that the people who called me when they were "Prestige" now they are working for American Marketing. I also called MARY LEE, she answered the phone as AMERICAN MARKETING. I talked to her and let her know my concerns about being scammed. But, she said she cannot help me because she has prohibited to take care of customer service calls. I told her I will contact my lawyer and go down to their office, she said "please do". I talked with one of their managers named "Jesse" and he told me they (American Marketing) took over "Prestige". Now he has never called me back and they try to avoid my calls. Every time I call everybody is in a closing. So there's nobody available to answer my call or they just hang up the phone on me. About two weeks ago I got lucky and talked to another manager named "Christopher" and he told me he will get someone from "Prestige" to call me back and cut off the call. How can he does that if they claim they don't know about this company? Anyway, the next day a guy named "David Harris or Harris Davis" called me saying he was from "Prestige" and he was working on my property and got a couple interested on it. That he'll call me later for details. I haven't heard a word again. I have had several calls from customer serv rep offering me to post my property thru American Marketing for a fee of $799.00 and when I tell them that I pay already, they don't know what to say and they will call me back. Haven't heard a word yet.
I guess I learned the hard way. I don't know what can I do???
STAY AWAY!!! from AMERICAN MARKETING TIMESHARE OR PRESTIGE or any other company. They scam people and then after a few months they change the company name so you cannot keep track of them.
BE AWARE!!!
AMERICAN MARKETING IS A SCAM !!!