Complaint Review: Direct Commerce Academy - Internet
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- Direct Commerce Academy Internet United States of America
- Phone: 800-381-1681
- Web: www.thedirectcommerceacademy.com
- Category: Work at Home Business
Direct Commerce Academy DCA Sold my email address and may have been responsible for fraudulent charge to my credit card, Internet
*Consumer Comment: You were scammed..
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I ordered DCA's internet based business program, paying only $2.97 for the initial application. The company is nothing more than a front for selling you a $40 per month web hosting site for your "new internet based company". Check GoDaddy.com, 1&1.com, or any other web hosting service and you'll see what a ripoff this is. You will be offered many "free" ways of using the internet to start a business, all of which cost more money. You can find these same companies on the internet without going through DCA.
The first problem is that the day following my sign up and payment of $2.97, I began receiving a minimum of 20 emails a day which were all spam. I know the spam email either originated from DCA or my address was sold or stolen because the username I signed up with on DCA is the name that was included in ALL the spam emails, and is a name I used nowhere else on the internet.
Then today a charge of $138.67 was charged to the same credit card I used to pay DCA. This was a fraudulent charge posted as "EXCELPRO8004269694". When I called this 800 number to inquire about the charge, all I got was a recording that said "Call the talk line at 800-382-TALK for exciting people nationwide." Since I have never used this card on the internet before DCA's charge, it is obvious where the charge came from.
This fraudulent site needs to be shut down by the attorney general in whatever state it is operating out of. And the sooner that is done the fewer people will be scammed.
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#1 Consumer Comment
You were scammed..
AUTHOR: Ronny g - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, November 07, 2010
..and this is why you must research before giving out and credit/debit card / bank account info online.
For example..if you had simply googled "Direct Commerce Academy" you would have found...(and bear in mind this is only after I searched for less then two seconds), the reports seem to be endless. Yes..you were ripped off big time..but this is avoidable. Please let others know not only that this company is a SCAM..but to not be so naive to just give out account information without doing a little search/investigation FIRST!
Is the Direct Commerce Academy a real thing?
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Is Direct commerce academy legitimate?
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What is direct commerce academy?
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Good luck putting a stop to the Direct Commerce Academy. I wonder if they have the headquarters address of Wikia, Inc.?
Direct Commerce Academy - why is Yahoo Home page advertisizing for them.?
Please advise people to research these online "work at home" sites before giving them any money whatsoever. This is not a good company and should be put out of business.
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DCA(Direct Commerce Academy).. IS JUST PLAIN FRAUD!!!!! NEVER EVER EVER SIGN UP FOR ANY OF THEIR SERVICES.!!!?
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Thanks for posting this, I hope other people read it before they get scammed.
Direct Commerce Academy scam gets lots of hits online
One new scam getting attention online is the Direct Commerce Academy scam, with wary customers asking Google for all sorts of info for Direct Commerce Academy, and finding out information about the scam.
Webmasters who run their own websites have the ability to examine the types of search terms that bring web visitors to their sites -- and that's how this journalist discovered that "Direct Commerce Academy" and "Direct Commerce Academy scam" are popular terms.
It was an inadvertent discovery, but consumers who've bought into scam ads like those run by MyInternetCashTactics.com and a plethora of others have been led to buy "Direct Commerce Academy" kits that they think will only cost a few dollars, but end up being a lot more.
When "Direct Commerce Academy" no doubt appears as an approximately $139.95 charge on their credit cards or debited from their bank accounts, then they discover the terms and conditions link that some of these places put at the bottom of their sales pages, telling the real charges:
"Direct Commerce Academy: When submitting this order, you agree to the trial offer for only the online shipping and handling fee of $2.97, which will provide you with instant access to our entire system. Once your three-day trial period is up, you will be charged a one-time fee of $139.95. Following this activation fee, you will receive a monthly charge of $39.95 for three months for full access to the training course."
According to one pissed-off consumer, Direct Commerce Academy is a company based in Belize with a contact phone number based in Utah.
Based on other research, plenty of these similar scams are based in other countries.
Thankfully, Google cracked down on the ones using their name -- and the FBI Internet Crimes folks are catching up with more of these guys.
Now if major websites would just stop accepting the scam ad networks, this would help to shut down the scammers even more.
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