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Date Posted: 22:50:44 09/08/09 Tue
Author: Lee (Thiefs I know where they live)
Subject: Re: uSight Will Rob You Blind! Got me for $450,000
In reply to: Archonis 's message, "uSight Will Rob You Blind!" on 22:23:59 07/18/03 Fri

>There us an infomercial that purports to help people
>create their own online business. On your TV screen;
>an attractive couple pull up in a red sports car, and
>tell you how they can help you to become financially
>independent, if you will just listen to them about how
>online businesses are the answer, and that if you
>attend a free seminar, they will tell you how they can
>help. They parade some lawyer interviewed in "Woman's
>World" magazine; people selling fishing lures; polish
>pottery; shipping containers for birds.... How about a
>travel business? All of these people found the way to
>success by setting up a web-business with "uSight
>Inc." So I decided to go check out the seminar. When I
>pulled up to the location, imagine my surprise when
>the sign at the hotel said: "Welcome Eccotax Seminar."
>I wondered if it was the right place, but it was.
>During the seminar, a salesman who could charm the
>brass off of a doorknob, starting telling us that for
>$495 dollars, plus $99 dollars software licensing, and
>for $59.95 a month, we could all have our own
>commercial website! And for $3,750 dollars we could
>set up a merchant's account where we could accept
>credit card billings, along with a host of other
>charges for tech. support and other junk we would have
>to pay. Supposedly the website we would get would be
>"easy-interface," no HTML knowledge needed. This guy
>was using NLP and high pressure sales tactics, so I
>was geting very skeptical. After I heard some really
>absurd lies such as; "subdomains are not listed in
>search engines," then I was really suspicious, along
>with their offer to list your site in 1500 search
>engines for $99 dollars. I was really getting
>critical, but did not want to be over-cynical, so I
>checked this "e-commerce website business" out on the
>Net. Boy, am I glad I did! In the first place I would
>like to recommend a site:
>
>"http://www.ripoffreport.com
>
>Just go to the "search section" of this site, and
>enter-in all of the "uSight" family of companies:
>USIGHT, EPENZIO, BRIDGEVIEW BANK, PENZPAY, and see
>what pops up. You have a litany of horror stories that
>you would not believe! You can read them for yourself,
>but after studying the complaints I think I have
>figured out what all these shill-companies really are:
>Fronts for a sophisticated bank fraud, check fraud,
>and credit card fraud operation. The scam goes like
>this: They hold seminars and then they charge a
>fortune for website business services and software,
>much of which seems not to work. Their servers hang in
>a webtrash wasteland and the business ventures they
>offer for sale to sell on your website also do not
>send what is purchased, and the franschise is
>worthless. People get few customers if any, and they
>can spend thousands of dollars for services and
>products that are never delivered. But here is where
>it really gets bad... Not only are people defrauded
>when they write checks to these crooks for worthless
>products and services, not only are their deposits
>never refunded when they purchase what they promised
>to, but on top of this, their bank accounts start
>getting debited without their permission, often by
>"Bridgeview Bank," whatever that is. When you imagine
>that each free seminar has around 100 people, 70%
>percent of whom have been conned and are writings
>checks for hundreds of dollars, and that all of these
>people are going to have their accounts debited
>without permission, and God knows when they will
>actually catch those debits; how much of their money
>will have been stolen, you are looking at a
>multi-million dollar fraud, as these seminars are held
>all over the USA and Canada. Also it has been reported
>that people who paid them with credit cards are
>getting phony credit card charges from shill companies
>that they never authorized. So these thieves are
>grabbing peoples checks, cash, debiting their credit
>cards and bank accounts without permission, and
>robbing people blind, for nonexistent and worthless
>services and products. I wonder how many people are
>going to be in the streets, or driven even to suicide
>by these crooked scumbags. On occasion though,
>sometimes somebody's "uSight" website will actually
>work, but they do not get customers for their
>products, or so they think... One man reported that he
>could not get into the "shopping cart" area of his
>website. He asked what was going on there, and
>"uSight" said it was "proprietary information." It
>could be that many of these website owners are not
>getting customers for their products, but "uSight" is.
>When somebody wants to buy something from a person's
>website, "uSight" hijacks the billing interface and
>steals the money the customer sends. Then the website
>owner thinks he has no customers and the customer does
>not end up getting the product theuy paid for. And the
>blame could go to the web-business owner, who does not
>know what is going on. Peachy, huh? In any event
>"uSight" and its family of shill companies and
>"cut-outs" should be avoided like the plague. Here is
>the ripoff-org's address:
>
>uSight
>
>727 North 1550 East, Suite 300
>
>Orem, Utah 84097
>
>And be sure to check out the above URL.

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