Earth Trade - Linda Williams
Queja 57246 Detalles

  • Fecha cuando ocurrió 11/08/2013
  • Daños Reportados: $14,560.00

The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

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I was contacted through email from a Katrina Fahs <[email protected] on September 29th asking for my resume for a purchasing agent position. It said my name was obtained through a professional site and I am on several for my business.
I was later contacted by Linda Williams by phone representing Earth Trade Company and was told they were wanting to hire me and I would be contacted at a later date and emailed all specifics of the job and a job application. After reading the materials and how everything worked, I was a bit skeptic and emailed this sentiment back to Linda. I didn't like the part where I was supposed to use my own credit card and they were wanting me to use a credit card that was maxed out. She called me and convinced me the reason they wanted me to use a maxed out credit card was so I could see that they paid it off and therefore I wouldn't mind using it. I would give them no personal information and only use their payment information to pay my credit card balance off online.
They gave me routing and account number from Bank of America and I submitted the info to pay the outstanding balance off on my credit card. I figured if the credit card company showed it being paid off after 24 hours it must be legitimate. Why would a credit card company show something was paid off if they didn't have the proper banking routing and account information?
I went and purchased items specified and packaged them according to directions, placed the prepaid shipping labels on them and shipped them using USPS. I then emailed Linda the receipts of purchase and the USPS receipt. She emailed me and told me that as soon as the purchase shows up on my online credit card statement to let her know and she would send me another Bank Of America account to pay it off and then I could go make another purchase.
This went on 3 times over ten days with purchases close to $5000 each and all seemed to be working smoothly until the first payment made on my credit card was showing reversal of payment. I immediately called my credit card company (Chase) and asked what was going on and all they could say was it was either a bad number or a phony account number. I was later contacted by their fraud department and told they have seen this alot! Well, this is a big part of the scam and why it works even on people with common sense and trying to be careful. I was told by my credit card company that they can't garauntee that just because a payment has been made that it will stay that way or that the banking info given was correct. Are you kiddinng me? My small town bank knows if a payment and all info is correct or not in a matter of minutes online!
Linda Williams and Earth Trade company is a complete fraud and I hope she is prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
I feel like my credit card company is partly responsible for this type of scam to work. I was told this is something they have seen alot of and I would like to know why they wouldn't share this information with people to make them aware. Could it be they know you will have to pay all the crazy fees and penalties when all this comes back and slaps you in the face.
In these desperate times with people out of work and wanting a real job, the last thing anyone needs is to think they finally have a job only to find out it's all a scam.

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  • sara_marion
  • sara_marion SBID #bea382499e
  • Publicado 03/26/2013
  • I was approached and have reported small damages, but I reserved alot of my work order against them, so I have not pursued for damages. I did not receive materials from the company before they could manuever into their hostile work ethics protocol. How strange to receive a bad credit card as a matter of business. This is a person and supervisor, Linda Williams, not to trust. If a company has double-linked telephones with different numbers and different answering services, this is also a bad sign for integration. A customer will not know who you are.
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  • Ob
  • Ob SBID #4ff2543884
  • Publicado 10/08/2013
  • he are now operating as
    (Accessory Trading and consulting

    Linda is going by Debbie Hoffman the HR Manager
    email ([email protected])
    phone 718-473-0711
    Fax:888-305-5083
    Address 172 east 46th street NY, NY
    or 172 East 4th Street NY,NY
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  • Ob
  • Ob SBID #4ff2543884
  • Publicado 10/08/2013
  • She is now operating as
    (Accessory Trading and consulting

    Linda is going by Debbie Hoffman the HR Manager
    email ([email protected])
    phone 718-473-0711
    Fax:888-305-5083
    Address 172 east 46th street NY, NY
    or 172 East 4th Street NY,NY
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  • guppie
  • guppie SBID #383213d5eb
  • Publicado 10/15/2013
  • If anybody has contact with this Linda/Debbie person write it all down and post it on here. These are wicked people who steal millions of dollars from people daily and the police can't seem to catch them. Maybe we can all work together and put an end to this horrible scam.
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  • Meranda
  • Meranda SBID #f738d52812
  • Publicado 11/06/2013
  • She just tried to scam me on a car YESTERDAY! Thankfully i realized the deal was to good to be true and googled her email and found all this.
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  • Daños Reportados: $119,647.90
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