Read this very thoroughly and carefully. This report will stun you and leave you speechless. Interested lawyers/gov officials/Dateline, please feel free to contact me via Ripoff Report.
I found Heritage Web Solutions by doing a search and contacted them as I wanted to become an online distributer of musical equipment. I was interested in their e-commerce solutions.
Heritage's employee, "JoelD", promptly contacted me and sent a quote for services via email. At the time I was considering this move to e-commerce, I had many life circumstances (i.e. death in family, etc.) and basically did not pursue the offer any further.
Heritage called me to ask if I was still interested but I told them I was still evaluating the offer and would contact them if interested. Fine, no problem except a few persistant calls here and there; nothing too terribly excessive.
Fast forward a month or so and we were burglarized. I was in the backyard mowing and someone walked in the garage, took a bike off the rack and rode off.
The bike was not that expensive but I was more concerned with the well-being of my family. Still, I filed a police report and wrote it off to a couple unscrupulous kids.
Here's where it gets weird. The next night I kept getting calls from an 801 area code. I do not pick up because frankly, I am busy and if I don't recognize the number, I don't pick up. The caller called three times and left a VM the third time.
I listened and, in a weird voice the caller left "It's my bike now!". Well, this certainly got my attention so I did a directory search of the number. Surprise! It was from Heritage Web Solutions in Provo, Utah! The number was also linked to Leah A. Young who's employer was listed as...yep, you guessed it Heritage.
Now this is freaky. I contacted the Sheriff and told him everything. He asked if I had any negative exchanges with the company and I told him no. He asked if they had a local branch, I did a search and could find nothing in my area (I'm on the other side of the continent).
Whether this thief flew back to Utah and called me from that number or used 'Call Spoofing' (here's a link to learn about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing) is irrelevant. The fact is the thief is linked to this company somehow...maybe an employee, maybe a boyfriend of Leah A. Young who had access to HWS's database and decided to do a "hit."
You're probably thinking "Sure, someone flew all the way down only to steal a cheap bike." No, that is not what I think. I think this fellow may have had business in the area, saw that I was in the back mowing, and decided to thrill steal. Afterall, they're going to make me a sucker somehow; even if not by purchasing their shoddy solutions.
I've contacted the authorities because technically this is a burglary because they entered our garage and stole an item. Obviously that is not my concern but what is is that this immoral group of people have shown that they can stoop even lower than just simply taking people's money.
I think this is signifcant, not because of what was stolen, but how they are linked to such criminal acts as burglary.
In summation, people beware! I believe these people are of a criminal nature that far surpasses the usual scam!
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