Innovative American, LLC (New York)
Complaint 20642 Details

My father was contacted about a refund for a breech of contract for a time share that was marketed and the contract was never fulfilled. He is 87 years old and got me involved. I was told that my father had this money coming and that they also had one of his time shares sold. She gave me a conformation number and the reason why they could refund the money was due to the sell of the property and by "law" they had to refund the money in order to sell the timeshare. She stated that no fees needed to be paid by my father, but a deposit into an escrow account MIGHT be needed but would be returned on the closing of the property. This was on a Thursday evening. On Friday I received a call for a gentleman who said his name was Gregory McDennis and he told me he was representing the company Innovative American LLC. and was licensed in the State of New York. Gave me the address 273 Walt Whitman Dr. Suite 338, NY NY, 11746.( Which happens to be a UPS PO box) He went through this elaborate presentation and when he got to the end of the presentation the property he was trying so hard to buy from us has already been liquidated. I explained that the only time share we had left was a different organization all together. He stated that he would see if this property was acceptable to his client and would get back with me. He called back that night and said it was a go. At which time he wanted me to give him $1999.00 off of one of my fathers credit cards to put on deposit in a non interest bearing transaction account. This account could not be accessed by either party and was the same as an escrow account. The deposit was the only stipulation. To off set there out of pocket cost if we backed out of the sale of the timeshare. That the money would be refunded at the closing. Which was normally 30 business day or approximately 45 days to close. I told him I would have to talk this over with my father. He was pleasant and told me he would be available the following day and gave me the number of 585-205-8820 his direct line. After doing a little checking I decided to call him the following day and let him know that I wanted to make a few phone calls before committing to his plan. After doing some research I found that this company is not licensed in the State of New York, the title company he said would be handling the closing had nothing scheduled by them or has never done any type of business with them. After finding this web site and the information it has provided, I felt it necessary to let people know about this fraudulent attempt to scam a 87 year old man out of $2000. So beware these people need to be thrown in jail. This is an elaborate operation with several people involved. Do some home work before you commit to and offer from these people or any other company making these types of offers, Keep you money in your wallet and report them to everybody that will listen. Hopefully we can get them arrested and shut down and save another Senior Citizen from falling victim to another timeshare scam. Seniors are easy victims do to there lack of knowledge of the internet, or a person to act on there behalf. Lets run this scum out of business.