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magicarpet

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8. Try your state attorney general's office,...

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Wed Sep 14, 2022, 09:48 AM

Sep 2022

... contact the elder abuse/credit card fraud section. I got tangled up with the "help I have fallen and can't get up" battery controlled emergency beacon necklace.

I called the attorney general's office and with in 24 hrs they had the credit card transaction reversed and the contract cancelled.

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i think i may have been scammed . [View all] AllaN01Bear Sep 2022 OP

Call bank first or a number on your credit card Tetrachloride Sep 2022 #1

Call number on back of your card ASAP secondwind Sep 2022 #2

Cancel payment on your card immediately Meowmee Sep 2022 #3

this was a medicare scam. AllaN01Bear Sep 2022 #5

Ok Meowmee Sep 2022 #7

Best laugh I've had in hours! (and you certainly gave good advice) Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2022 #9

Ty 😹 Meowmee Sep 2022 #10

Contact the FTC as well. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2022 #4

this is most helpfull . geting sick and tired of these ppl praying on old folkk AllaN01Bear Sep 2022 #6

Try your state attorney general's office,... magicarpet Sep 2022 #8