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Have you ever heard of this company? (by Lance C.):

kathrynd37 wrote:

We were approached (cold call) by South Bridge Realty. Their office is located at 1170 Peachtree St, Atlanta GA. They claim they have a purchaser for our timeshare in Cozumel. Has anyone ever had dealings with this company?

Let's analyze this for a minute.

1) How did they know your name and phone number? 2) How did they know you owned a timeshare in Cozumel? 3) How could they have a buyer for it if you did not even have it advertised for sale?

Enter their address on Google Maps or Google Earth and you will be very enlightened as to what you'll find.

By the way, here's how the scam usually plays out. They try to paralyze you with excitement and stop you from thinking rationally by telling you they have a buyer who will pay you an obscene amount of money for your unit. Then while you can't hold in your excitement anymore, they tell you that this lucrative deal is all set but you just have to pay a Mexican tax (somewhere in the hundreds or thousands of dollars) in order for your cashier's check to be released to you.

They don't have a buyer and, if you're foolish enough to pay them, they'll disappear with your money and you still own the timeshare.