Travelers Advantage, (Trilegiant Corp) Aol partner, fraudulent charges made to my debit card. Rip-Off Norwalk Connecticut

First on behalf of the company let me apologize for the inconvenience, however, Not to offend you but when you are offered an invitation to anything "Including our online discount shopping service" do you just blindly accept, or do you read first?



Naturally you as well as anyone would say..."Of course I read!" Well please allow me to do a little copying and pasteing, hopefully we can clear this up...(Quote #1)"I am very careful not to fall for phone and mail scams and am 100% certain I never signed or agreed to anything remotely like Travelers Advantage".

(Quote # 2) dated 10/15/04 "They claimed I deposited a check from AOL (their partners in crime) for two dollars and fifty cents back in May 04 and by doing this I had unwittingly agreed to pay them $79 to join their organization (Travelers Advantage). I don't remember doing this".



You may ask what's the point? My point is as any major corporation in America does, we send out invitations to join our service. We offer our members the absolute best for less, Customer satisfaction to the fullest even if it means refunding you your money because you "don't remember" signing up with us. We as any other company in America merely make you an offer. That offer in any form email, online, check in your case etc. We know for a fact we please our members and have the most too offer, however the one thing we don't offer is someone to come to your home with the invitation to join, to read it or spell it out too you, therefore, if you decide to cash it, and "Don't remember" doing so, then don't fault the company, fault the one that didn't read and couldn't remember because the fact is We've offered our members the absolute best quality service for 20 years and still going strong and will continue too do so. My advice too you is before you trash comanpies "read and remember" . If you sign on the dotted line un-forcibly, it's no one elses fault.

10/15/04 today I called Traveler's Advantage membership (800) 353-6196, I got hold of someone right away. I told them about their fraudulent ding on my bank account. They claimed I deposited a check from AOL (their partners in crime) for two dollars and fifty cents back in May 04 and by doing this I had unwittingly agreed to pay them $79 to join their organization (Travelers Advantage). I don't remember doing this but either way, I told them this is a deceptive business practice and I had researched them on the Rip Off report and they have to return my money immediately or I would go public. They agreed to return the charges they said it would take 10-15 business days, I asked them why? They said they only take 24 hours but my bank could take the rest of the time.



Next I call my bank, explain the situation. I demand the Federal Regulation E form where they are required to help me. They assigned me a number and said someone will be calling me, but they would'nt remove the bank's $33 overdraft fee from the fraudulent transaction. We'll see about that. I'll let you know what happens...