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Re: Has anyone ever sold their timeshare to Despegar.com travel agency? (by Beverly M.):
The entire very sophisticated Scam of which Monte Cristo is somewhat responsible as well. Privacy act laws have been broken as employees of Pueblo Bonito Member services it appears sold inside info for Despegar to reach us in the first place.
We were shown as Minnesota Escrow MB REALTY (hoax location, I paid to have flowers sent of which of course no one there...it was a Regal Office rental address from some time ago (Julie and another gal). We were even received calls from Despegar "Attorney" and Banks along with PREFECO (Virginia, I believe). I will post a time line with names too. We also were told we had to pay 10% tax through their government agency SAT and bank fees requested....a number of people were involved with an answer for everything.
Mexico has many crooked employees taking money on the side to help pretend they are legit. REMEMBER any email with a .com is not Mexico (lesson learned). There seems to be pursuit from "privacy violations" regarding selling our contact info to scammers.
Monte Cristo never advised for our fees owed in the past they were taking our $200,000.00 cash paid Monte Cristo Villa #1 and giving it to others...a scam method in and of itself. MORE LATER. Bev M
janetl375 wrote:So I got contacted about 3 months ago... The offer was too good to be true.. No money all paid by Despegar... contract looked legit... The I get the MonteCristo won't sell.. They send to Profeco who has an impressive website looking out for fraud then I get the news that I have to pay the Lawyer to the Mexican Secretary of Tourism 10% of the selling price in order to get a certificate of release... of course they will reimburse me.... I also was working with Realty Direct REO then they changed their name to MB realty, Inc. out of Minneapolis... of course they feel terrible... but even sent me copies of cashier checks from Scotiabank made out to me... so show me everything is above board... then I looked at the wire instructions... nothing to do with the government... Be very careful it all sounds good but once they asked for money up front I knew the scam was on.... Unbelievable... i wish there was something I could do to shut these people down.... Agree with Nancy.... Sigh... But good news I am going to Cabo in March again...