Wednesday, March 01, 2006
American Express
Now American Express is a great company and they have offers that businesses can take advantage of to help them, not to put them behind the 8 ball, but my story is a bit different. What you read here is kind of boiled down to the basics, but there was a lot more than I could ever document in this blog.
As I began to note what was happening to my accounts, I started to go on line to view my statements and found that I owed American express a lot of money. I paid as much as I could and my Canadian student who was manipulating my account started to generate income to pay off the expenses he was incurring. One of these expenses was a Lap Top from Voodoo which cast over $ 6000. 00 U.S.. The charges got worse and worse and my Canadian friend was not able to come up with enough money to keep American Express happy so I called American Express and cancelled my Gold Business card Next thing I know, I go on line to see where I stand on this card and I see that I have changed to the Platinum card and got not only one but two cards and over $ 29,000 has been charged to them. I called American Express and and asked that the cards be cancelled, that I refused to pay the charges as I did not order these cards. I was told how to report this all to their fraud section who denied my claim saying that I had to know about all of this and that I should recover the funds from my Canadian "business partner". At this time they are trying to collect, but I am happy that I have a lawyer friend who knew all about this from the start
As I began to note what was happening to my accounts, I started to go on line to view my statements and found that I owed American express a lot of money. I paid as much as I could and my Canadian student who was manipulating my account started to generate income to pay off the expenses he was incurring. One of these expenses was a Lap Top from Voodoo which cast over $ 6000. 00 U.S.. The charges got worse and worse and my Canadian friend was not able to come up with enough money to keep American Express happy so I called American Express and cancelled my Gold Business card Next thing I know, I go on line to see where I stand on this card and I see that I have changed to the Platinum card and got not only one but two cards and over $ 29,000 has been charged to them. I called American Express and and asked that the cards be cancelled, that I refused to pay the charges as I did not order these cards. I was told how to report this all to their fraud section who denied my claim saying that I had to know about all of this and that I should recover the funds from my Canadian "business partner". At this time they are trying to collect, but I am happy that I have a lawyer friend who knew all about this from the start
# posted by VonKrogh @ 3/01/2006 02:08:00 PM 
