Vantage Funding
Complaint 134811 Details
- Date Occurred: 07/12/2014
- Reported Damages: $30.00
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This company fraudulently took $30.00 out of my checking account. I don't even know who these people are. When I called to demand they refund my money, I was told that instead of a refund, I would be sent a $100.00 gas card (???). I told the customer service rep that I didn't believe that I'd be sent anything, I just wanted my $30.00 back. I was finally told that I would get a refund, but it would take up to 15 days....WTF?? So now I can't close my checking account, and I highly doubt that I will ever see that money again. This is NOT something I ever authorized.
- Sam11 SBID #a08bb34b9f
- Posted 07/13/2014
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- tiffanym431 SBID #59e436bd6b
- Posted 07/23/2014
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- SeriouslyPd SBID #03a02da2cf
- Posted 07/24/2014
- Hi Sam11, I had this EXACT same thing happen with these people! No clue who the @#%! they are, or how on EARTH they are getting away with this! I was on my last day of vacation, took my kids to a water park - When we went to pay for some lunch, lo and behold, card's declined. I find this $30 check to them, which caused my account to be overdrawn by a lousy 2 bucks!! So not only was I at the amusement park with no money to eat, but I was minus another $38 for the overdraft! Just like you, I looked at the copy of the check, called the number, told this idiot woman at least 5 times that I did not apply for any loan! Told her I don't even have a job!! So she keeps telling me I am approved for one... (HELLOOOOOO, NO JOB MEANS I WILL NOT PAY U BACK! WHAT R U DOING GIVING SOMEONE WITH NO INCOME AN APPROVAL??!!)ranting, sorry...and then, like she did with you, she says we can offset the $30 charge with a $100 gas card. Wow. Really? I told her to listen very carefully...I DO NOT NOW, DID NOT BEFORE, NOR WILL I EVER WANT A LOAN FROM YOU!! I told her I had already alerted all proper authorities and that I was demanding my money refunded immediately. She finally agreed, gave me a refund confirmation #, and said 2-3 business days. Today is day 5, just called again. Now she says within 15 days! Imagine that. Funny how it's always the same woman's voice too! Anyway Sam11, sorry for the vent there, I'm just so furious! I was just wondering if you ever got your money back? If you could let me know one way or the other, I'd sincerely appreciate it! I'm trying to decide what to do next. Thanks!
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- tiffanym431 SBID #5bc24c5a1d
- Posted 07/24/2014
- same happened to me. and you wont be seeing anything from them back,it has been 5 weeks and i have to file fraud through my bank and also filed a complaint with the better business Bureau. i suggest you do the same thing. they are doing this to hundreds if not thousands of ppl. i dont even know how they got my info!
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- Sam11 SBID #a08bb34b9f
- Posted 07/25/2014
- To you both: I'm so sorry this has happened. Just truly disgusting these people are.Yes, it was a woman I talked to, and she had a foreign accent. I am a single mom, and I'm unemployed, this has really messed up my account. I reported the fraud with my bank, but had to freeze my checking account...which made my unemployment (direct deposit) late because now I have to wait up to 14 days to get a paper check and everything transferred to a new account. I just love how these sick a**holes prey upon poor people. It's pathetic. I have not seen anything credited to my old account and it's been a good 2 weeks. I know I'm never going to see that money again and it just made everything so screwed up. Thanks for leaving your comments, I guess it's good to know that there are others out there as upset as I am. I hope something can be done regarding these crooks.
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- tiffanym431 SBID #1e9f2f154d
- Posted 07/26/2014
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sam i am so sorry to hear of your situation. it has messed up things a bit for me also. Like i stated before i went to bbb.org and filed a complaint. pleas do the same so we can stop them. Where was the location of the people who took your money? im trying to investigate the most I can. They told me they were located in Las Vegas Navada. i just recieved an email from BBB stateing they forwarded my complaint to them to see if they respond. so we shall see but im not stopping there. im also contacting the attorney general of nevada. one again im sorry to hear of yr story and you will be in my prayers. God Bless You.
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- SeriouslyPd SBID #03a02da2cf
- Posted 07/26/2014
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Hi Sam11 again,
I am so sorry you had to go through this! I too am a single unemployed mom, and that's exactly why I asked if the money was ever refunded - because the bank, in order to file the fraud claim, requires that I freeze/close the account and open a new one too! Between transactions not yet processed, bills on auto-pay, and the fact that I use direct deposit (and subsequently count down to the minute to get paid due to my crappy financial situation, so I really need it there on time!) I'll be really in a bind if I have to go through all that! Yet if I don't file fraud, not only am I out the $30, and every penny is sacred right now, but I'm out the huge overdraft fees that need to be replaced immediately in order to get back into the positive and not get further penalized! Not to mention the worry that these people have my account info, (no idea how they got it or who else may have it) and that apparently that's all they need to dip into it and take money out!! Anyway, just wanted to share that I truly know what you're going through, (NOT JUST SAM11, ALL OF YOU!)I'm so sorry, and I'm just infuriated that this is not only happening, but continuing on after so many of the same complaints!! WTF?! It seems like it's always us, the people in the biggest bind, that always get screwed! I really just hope that fate steps and handles dishing out what these people deserve! In the meantime, to tiffanym431 or anyone else who is filing reports, I am here to back you up! Please let me know if I can be of any help, ie; if you need extra info like my bank statements or my comments here to give your report some additional weight, I am more than happy to help! Hang in there guys!! -
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- Sam11 SBID #a08bb34b9f
- Posted 08/06/2014
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Thanks again for all of your encouraging messages!
Here's the latest: Not only was the $30.00 never credited to my account (it was frozen by my bank to accept only deposits) but I had a SECOND company take another $30.00 out of my account right after this happened!!
Here's where it's getting REALLY freaky:
Some guy with a thick Indian accent called me from a number based out of Manhattan threatening that he was going to "come after me" (??)in regards to the $30.o0 if I didn't call him back. I did call back, not because I was scared but because I was (Inappropriate Content Removed)off....and I basically told him to stop calling me, how dare he threaten me and I hung up...he kept calling back and I'd just hang up....finally, after about 5 calls I picked up and this FREAK started screaming at me: "Listen here you (Inappropriate Content Removed), etc....I just screamed ack at him and told him to eff off. But how weird is that?
Now these people have my info and I'm getting threatened? I never applied for any sort of loan which is what they claimed. I had some sort of weird thing happen to my account way back in January of this year where someone from a train station in England took money from my checking account using my debit card number....but the bank investigated, I was credited the money back and we changed my account. Now this. I don't know if the two are related?
I'm in the exact same finacial situation/circumstances that you are, SeriouslyPd!! I can totally relate!! And yes, it's really unnerving to know that these people have my private info, my home address and they're harassing me with phone calls? I'm thinking about buying a gun. I am not kidding. -
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- NannT512 SBID #cfd2b0384f
- Posted 11/28/2014
- What company took the other 30.00 out of your account.
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