Amadeus School Of Music (aka Allegro Home Music Lessons, Aka Picasso Home Art School) Promises and evasion - outright thieves! Home piano lessons; modest website; old ladies that seem truthworthy on the phone; grab your money and promise services they never intended to provide. New Jersey New Jersey

I contacted Music House Calls aka Amadeus School of Music in early February to arrange piano tutorials in my home. My initial contact was to call them them. Of course, they jumped on another victim and called me bacl. Who sounded like a nice little old lady, Diana Efre, cheered me on in my enthusiasm to do home piano lessons and them took my credit card number and faxed me an "agreement" that was supposedly signed by a Mr. Dawson. I signed it and faxed it back - no doubt that went into a shredder or a trash can!

$440 was taken from my account in mid-February and another $440 in early March (unauthorized - not known by me until I got my statement the other day). Meanwhile, I had been calling demanding a refund and trying to keep on their good side by being "nice."

These guys are thieves in the day and night, and they've probably maxed on Amadeus and are moving on to another scheme. "Donna Esposito, Client Relations" is now saying on her answering machine that she no longers works for Amadeus. She's most likely giving out a fictitious name and is an active party to the whole fraud.

These guys need a couple of years in prison to straighten them out, even if they are "little old ladies" needing daily supplies of Depends! Who cares? A thief is a thief and should have to account for their deviant actions, no matter what their age or excuses.

Scam! Scam! Scam! Hope they are caught and pay the price. Hope they haven't set up another scheme online in attempts to do the same.

Phone numbers I have gathered include: 1 866 397-0038; 503-954-1304; 1 800 448-1628; and 1 877 537-7660.

Angy
Cleveland, Texas
U.S.A.