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Has anyone dealt with Pacific Transfer inc. or selltimeshare.org ? (by J V.):
lancec13 wrote:mariy5 wrote:What kind of actions does the AG of these states take. Obviously, it's not too harsh since they are still out there.It's not so much that the actions aren't too harsh. There have been news reports of many upfront fee scam operations being shut down and the perpetrators imprisoned.
The problem is that there are so many operations that it's hard for the authorities to keep up. I guess that can be said about a lot of illegal activities.
It's a combination of both. Timeshare resale fraud as well as many other scams often times result in large fines, but no jail time. But if someone has stolen $10 million it's not that big of a deal to pay $500,000. It's really only the people who steal large sums of money very quickly (hundreds of millions even) that suffer "real" consequences, and it's usually wire and/or mail fraud that sends them away. But for the most part it's a slap on the wrist, the judge says, "Don't do it again!" and the offenders promise they won't and either run the same scam again under a different name or move on to a different scam like work at home business or debt consolidation.
Multiple companies have been on the news over the last few years, and it shows people going to prison, but for every one of those companies there are a few dozen more that do the same thing, get caught, and don't suffer what most of us would consider justifiable consequences.