Purchase anything online? Check your credit card statement!

From: jjmoreta <moreta2_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:28:57 -0500


This was forwarded to me today. I checked it out and it seems to be legit (just Google WLI Reservation Rewards to see some angry websites)

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A friend of mine found an unauthorized charge on their credit card for $7 from a company called WLI Reservation Rewards. They had never heard of them, and I hadn't either. Turns out that you can be signed up for their subscriptions just by making a purchase on a number of well-known websites! Many of their victims assumed it was for another service or weren't carefully looking at their statements, so check your statements and make sure that you authorized all the charges on yours!

>From the online complaints I've read, most of the authorizations for these
charges seem to be from filling out what you think is a simple survey for $ or % off your purchase. Sometimes the charge doesn't show up for a few months.

Yes, it is your responsibility to check your credit card statements and read the fine print when you sign up for things or purchase things, but companies like this purposely try and deceive you. My friend doesn't remember seeing anything about signing up for membership with a monthly fee or anything that informed him that his credit card information would be transferred from the parent site for any purpose!

Here's an example of what one of their links looks like - http://www.webloyalty.com/buy-confirmation-page.html

Are you a victim? Make sure you let the website who partnered with them know that they have lost your business! Call WLI and get your money back (don't settle for anything less than a full refund of all the months they charged you). Complain to your credit card company. Let the FTC Internet Fraud Center know (http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp)! Consider cancelling your card and getting a new number.

Look for these other credit card charges on your statement from similar companies:

LEISUREPLUS

MWI*CONNECTIONS
MWI*GALLERIA USA
MWI*SIMPLE ESCAPES
NME*MAGAZINE ORDER
SFM*CRITICS CHOICE ENTERTAINMENT
SFM*GE PERFECT GETAWAYS

SUBSCRIBER SERVICES
WLI*BUYERASSURANCE
WLI*TRAVEL VALUES PLUS
WLI*WALLETSHIELD


Here is a partial list of websites you need to be wary of doing business with:

1-800-flowers.com
aande.com
allposters.com
americangreetings.com
brookstone.com
buy.com
buycomp.com
ccnow.com
chadwicks.com
cheaperthandirt.com
classmates.com
columbiahouse.com
cooking.com
danskin.com
deepdiscountdvd.com
drugstore.com
dvdplanet.com
e-bids.com
ebags.com
ebgames.com
expedia.com
fandango.com
flowers.com
fredericks.com
half.com
hotels.com
hotwire.com
jcwhitney.com
joann.com
kingsizedirect.com
lbcatalog.com
movietickets.com
musicspace.com
posters.com
priceline.com
reservations.com
restaurant.com
tickets.com
travelhero.com
ubid.com
vistaprint.com
walterdrake.com
world.com
yahoo.com

For more information:
http://www.ripoffreport.com
http://www2.unplannedthought.com:1234/archives/2003/08/19/scam_artists.php Received on Tue Apr 20 2004 - 13:28:51 PDT

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