Victim Location 90066
Total money lost $66,372.32
Type of a scam Travel/Vacations
I was contacted by Jordan Mills sales rep (October 10, 2018) from Travelstart corp to sale my membership with El Cid vacation club. They assigned Jacob Adams law firm, 224 W. 57th St. 7th Floor Suite 4, New York , NY. 10019. (212) 461-1670 to act as mediators. The first payment ($20,000) I had to send was to El Cid to pay off part of the balance. Which i found out it was a lie. Second payment was for taxes on capital gains to Mexican government. They threatened me with arrest warrant for tax evasion, if didn’t pay ($23,263.64) to Armando Resendez, Dept. Servicio de Administracion Tributaria
1- 866-978-8161. Then I had to pay a surcharge to Scottia bank ($6,702.37) in order for them to resend the money. But before that i sent the payment for the agent’s commission ($4750) .Then they decided to mail it thru Courier Express who lost the package after being picked up @Aduana Mexicana. There I had to pay this fine for not attaching the 105 FinCEN and again I was threatened if didn’t pay the fine ($11,656.31).
In that form i put down all my information and a copy of my ID, I’m afraid they use it for identity theft. I have all the receipts and bank information to which the wire transfer was sent. When I called Travelstart Corp, Scottiabank, law firm to report the package got lost and for them to cancel the check and wire it, they claimed that they couldn’t and that i had to deal with the Courier company. That’s when I started to look for information on how to defend and protect myself.