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Re: Please report upfront fee scammers to Attorney General ..... there's power in numbers (by Lance C.):
annaw90 wrote:Florida when are you going to pass law's for people so we do not get ripped off. There are thousand's of us and you do not seem to care. I will never enter your state again until you get something done about these con artist's. Why don't you follow Illinois law's and put some of them in prison. Maybe that will make them think before they go into business with the Devil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Florida is doing something about this. See myfloridalegal.com.
The problem though is that there are just too many scam artists for the authorities to catch up to.
By the way, Florida authorities are catching some scam artists as well as imprisoning them. But, because scamming timeshare owners is such an easy, lucrative market, when one gets caught and shut down, another one appears in its place.
The best antidote right now is just to inform and educate timeshare owners to never, ever pay anyone a large, upfront fee to sell, rent out, market, or "cancel" your timeshare. If anyone phones with an offer that seems too good to be true, then realize that it probably is too good to be true and stop fantasizing about a huge paycheck for you timeshare.