Victim Location 97002
Type of a scam Travel/Vacations
This company is offering to purchase timeshares. The company then provided a purchase offer under the signature of a MN attorney who has no affiliation with the company.
Total money lost $43,395
Type of a scam Travel/Vacations
We were approached in June 2019 regarding purchasing our time share in Neuvo Vallarta,Nayarit,Mexico by International Business Link LLC in Minneapolis by Gerald P. Norton Licenced Broker. As we were not using our Time Share over the last few years we were interested but were not willing to pay any any real estate fee’s till after we received the purchase price and told them this.It was a very generous offer and we were thrilled.At this time a Mexican banker was involved and were told we had to pay the agent Callea Butz’s commission.We said we could not afford it and were told we only had to pay 1/2 before we got the money.I wired it from our bank to a Scotia bank Inverlatin, Jalisco to Juan Carlos Rumero Ramirez who put this money in a trust account assuring us no one could touch it. This all went well until Jaun called us and said the Mexican government had put a hold on the money that was coming to us afraid it was money that had been used for fraudulent means.Our agent Callia Buts called back and said because we cancelled the contract we had to pay$ 4000.00 US to get our $39,000.00 deposit back and we were directed to send it to HBO Banko also in Mexico but by this time we had another banker involved Marco A. Gutierrez Hernandez. Yesterday we got a call again from Callea telling us they wanted us to pay $6700.00 US funds to pay off Administrative fee’s. Well enough is enough and if I had just hung up we would not be in this situation.Thinking we had checked these bank address’s out how could this happen we even checked out ScamPulse.com and nothing untill Oct 31.2019 and then an alert.