John Beck "Free And Clear" Real Estate Ripoff! Just Another Infomercial SCAM. Van Nuys California

---

*UPDATE Rip-off Report Investigation: John Beck Pledges To Resolve Complaints. - commitment to 100% customer satisfaction - Consumers can feel confident & secure when doing business with John Beck.

Hey Everyone,

I hope that this update finds each and every one of you in good spirit and health.

The fraudulent charges, by this fraudulent company has finally been reversed. After nine and a half grueling months of not being able to work full time, just so I could stay on top of the situation, I am now forced to request $1.2 million, after taxes (and still accumulating) to finally bring closure to this situation.

This $1.2 million is for the nine and a half months of suffering, that the fraudulent John Beck Mentoring Institute have caused me.

The $1.2 million, that I am now requesting will help to off-set all expenses related to this situation; such as lost wages, computer ware, printing costs, postage, lost time, mental anguish, stress, aggravation, possibly ruined credit, the mere fact of never knowing just what could have been, had I not fallen for this scam, etc, etc.

After nine and a half agonizing months, I also find it necessary to compensate a few people myself. Anyone that needs assistance in obtaining a refund from this company let me know, by posting your experience here and all questions you may have and I will do my absolute best to assist you.

This is not an atttempt to blackmail, harrass, bribe, or threaten in any way shape or form. As I have stated in my previous reports and updates, I could care less whether or not anyone from this fraudulent company ever responds to this demand.

Although the dispute process have taken much too long, it finally paid off in the end and I'm sure that the correct ruling has been made and that the verdict would've been no different in any courtroom, however, it's not about the money, but rather the principle, that I'm most concerned about.

I'm going to continue exercising my constitutional right to publicly state the truth. The John Beck Mentoring Institute has total control as to the content of any and all future postings, on this website, in the months and years to come, by simply coming foward and doing the right thing.

Until next time, take care cause I care, Aloha from Hawaii and God Bless each and every one of you.

P.S. Any media company or deceptive trade attorney, who is interested in assisting me in the recovery of an out of court settlement, will be entitled to a negotiated percentage, if and when I am ever awarded a settlement, or an agreement for fair compensation is reached and obtained. Please contact me through this website for further details.

Hey Everyone,

I hope that this message finds each and every one of you in good spirit and health. I guess by now you're all aware, that the John Beck Free and Clear program, which is sold via deception, fraudulent claims and pure bait and switch tactics is nothing but a huge scam.

The colorful manuals that's being marketed by this deceitful company, is just a deceptive door opener, so that a salesperson may contact you at a later time, or have you contact the company, so that they may sell you on their non-existent mentoring program.

Don't even waste your time with the initial program. IT'S WORTHLESS!! Just sold to lure unsuspecting victims into contracts, which are filled with clauses (loopholes) that will literally allow them an opportunity to steal your money.

There is nothing on the other side of the curtain, regardless of what the salespeople are trained to tell you. Keep in mind, that they are at liberty to say whatever it takes, to enroll you into their program. SMOKE AND MIRRORS!!

I previously had requested $300,000.00 in my previous reports and rebuttals, but after seeing some accident victims being awarded much larger sums for ACCIDENTS, I found it very necessary to double my request for compensation.

$600,000.00 after taxes, and still accumulating, is now my request, for what I feel is fair, for the blatant wrongdoing of the fraudulent John Beck Mentoring Institute. As I said earlier, I have seen much bigger awards granted to ACCIDENT victims. Spilled coffee which was supposedly too hot, was worth a million plus.

A gentleman that had been duped, by an automobile company, offering vacations packages as an incentive, has been awarded $675,000.00 for being misled by the offer. The John Beck Mentoring Institute was no accident. It's a well calculated and orchestrated extortion scheme. I have been scammed by this company, so I am well aware of the scam and how it works.

1. The John Beck Mentoring Institute has no website.

2. What little means of contact they provide is worthless, considering the staff that's hired to answer their phones do not relay messages, or just decides to give consumers the run around.

3. The John Beck Free and Clear infomercial is very deceiving and for the most part, flat out fraudulent, for there is never any mention regarding an enormous investment, that's supposedly critical to ones success. The many catches in the infomercial, are of relatively finer print than the rest of the printed words, or just a mere blur.

4. During the sale of the mentoring program, the salesperson will say anything necessary, to obtain a commitment, but is really only interested in someone's credit card info and total available credit, for if you'll notice in the many other reports, the investments of the fraudulent mentoring program, which is so valuable and detrimental to ones success, tremendously fluctuates. Strange huh??? What is this car sales??? No!!! It's a brilliantly disguised rip-off. Some of the more common sales pitches someone will likely hear are, we are looking for a few success stories, we would love for you to appear in our next infomercial, we are searching for a limited number of people to work with our coaches, who have been personally handpicked and mentored by John Beck himself, your investment is one hundred percent tax deductible, which means you are going to get the entire amount back during tax season, your investment is only used as leverage and your credit card will never be charged, we are interested in helping people build tax shelters, we would love to teach you how to use O.P.M. (other peoples money) as leverage to acquire properties, Etc, Etc. What one is supposed to receive for their investment, is the opportunity to work one on one with an experienced mentor, until they're comfortable doing it by themselves. The only thing that I've received for my enormous investment, was a bunch of cheap manuals, a few computer software discs that could not possibly have been worth no more than $20.00 each, a few websites to visit, where someone may opt to blindly bid on properties, and suggestions to take all my tax related questions and concerns to H&R BLOCK.

5. The John Beck Mentoring Institute tape records all verbal commitments to enroll in their program, but never records any of their fraudulent sales pitches or conversations prior to. Weird huh???

6. The John Beck Mentoring Institute's written contract has no stipulated cancellation policy. That's because the fraudulent program has no cancellation policy. This NO CANCELLATION clause comes in real handy for them, when they decide It's time to stiff an individual. Keep in mind that they will make no attempt to send you a copy of the signed contract, unless you decide to exercise your right as a consumer to dispute the quality of service. They stash all signed contracts away, until the day they receive notice regarding someone's credit card dispute, then they are really quick to bust it out in attempt to attack someone with it, regardless of whether or not a signed contract has anything to do with the reason for dispute. Take notice, that I have not once denied enrolling into their program in any of my reports, therefore, a signed contact has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

7. The John beck mentoring Institute will continue to just go through with the motions, in hopes that someone's credit card dispute rights have expired. They will make every attempt to give someone the run around for as long as it takes, to drag out and exhaust a consumers disputes rights.

8. Not one AKNOWLEDGED and or RESOLVED issue. For any company to allow this many complaints against it to go UNACKNOWLEDGED and UNRESOLVED, proves that they have much to hide, are not willing to and or able to defend themselves against the many complaints and in my eyes, is also an admission of guilt.

These are only a few examples and very short on details, regarding the John Beck Free and Clear program and the John Beck Mentoring Institute. My whole point here, is to make absolute sure to get the word and my experience out to as many people as I possibly can.

It must be working, because I have seen a tremendous slowdown in the amount of reports against the John Beck Mentoring Institute. I've already established this companies bad motives, so we all know the slowdown of reports can't be due to RESOLVED issues. We also know that the slowdown of reports can't be due to their program's success, because it's a scam.

Anyways, for now I would just like for everyone to know, that I have assessed my own punitive damages based on other awards, that have been granted due to ACCIDENTS. What's happened to me was no accident, it was DELIBERATE and for as long as I shall live, will do everything humanly possible to make sure no one else falls for this garbage sales.

The $600,000.00 after taxes, that it will now cost the John Beck Mentoring Institute to resolve this situation to the best of my satisfaction, is a very small award considering my credit which could now be ruined, time wasted that will never be replaced, printing and postage costs, computer ware, the involuntary twitching of my eye, which I now suffer, due to all the stress and unnecessary aggravation I incurred, mental anguish, lost wages due to unemployment, medical and dental procedures that weren't rendered due to non insurance, due to unemployment, due to being scammed by the fraudulent John Beck Mentoring Institute and their bogus offer, but most of all for the lifelong uncertainty of just what might have been have I not been scammed.

Any legitimate company would never allow a situation like this to linger over it's head. This situation will never just go away by itself and further avoidance will only anger me off more and force me to once again double my request.

THIS IS NOT A THREAT, BRIBE OR AN ATTEMPT TO BLACKMAIL. PAYMENT ALONE, WILL NOT GET A RETRACTION ATTACHED TO ANY OF MY REPORTS.

I could care less whether or not the John Beck Mentoring Institute ever comes forward to apologize and resolve this issue. I have already proven beyond a reasonable doubt, that I have been scammed, by the John Beck Mentoring Institute and there is nothing that could be said at this point to prove otherwise.

The best thing that this company could hope for at this point, is a public apology, granting of my request through a trust, in my name, obtain retractions on the many UNACKNOWLEDGED and UNRESOLVED rip-off reports against them and restructure and reorganize their business and business ethics, policies and procedures.

Believe me, this is a very small price to pay, for an opportunity for a business to come clean regroup and finally prove it's sincerity and legitimacy, after taking nine months of an innocent persons life and literally flushing it down the toilet. Until next time, take care cause I care, Aloha from Hawaii and God Bless each and every one of you.

Hey Everyone,

I hope that this message finds each and every one of you in good spirit and health. Below, I have posted an interesting story regarding the crackdown of fraudulent businesses, within a few states, that pose as legitimate businesses to peddle their garbage from boiler rooms.

Hopefully, the fraudulent John Beck Mentoring Institute (company that doesn't even have a website???) is on the agenda as well. The fraudulent John Beck Mentoring Institute, got me to fall for all their bogus sales pitches, delivered nothing of value, but is still trying to steal my money by means of clauses in their contract.

As a child, I almost fell for the sea monkey offer (advertised in comic books) several times. Luckily, my parents were aware of the fact that sea monkeys were nothing, but brine shrimp. John Beck's "mentoring" is sold under the very same false pretences and deceptive advertisements. HOGWASH!!

Until next time, take care cause I care, Aloha from Hawaii and god bless each and every one of you. Enjoy the story below:

Department of Corporations Leads
First Boiler Room Task Force Sweep

"Operation Tough Call" Comes Knocking with Warnings, Orders, Arrests

Los Angeles, January 8, 2001 -- The Department of Corporations today announced the successful conclusion of the first sweep of Southern California telemarketing operations by "Operation Tough Call," a multi-agency task force set up to attack illegal and fraudulent telemarketing operations, usually referred to as "boiler rooms." This action was taken pursuant to a 1999 federal grant awarded to the Department of Corporations by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The targeted companies were offering stock, partnership interests and other investment opportunities in firms marketing electronic components, movie deals, auction websites, computer hardware and software, Internet products and services, auto accessories, medical devices, infomercials, travel services, e-commerce services and others. The offerings were seeking in excess of $200 million in investor funds.

From October to December of this year, teams of investigators from the Department of Corporations, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), San Diego Boiler Room Task Force, County of Orange Boiler Room Apprehension (COBRA) Task Force, postal inspectors and local law enforcement agencies fanned out throughout Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties issuing warning letters and serving subpoenas, orders and arrest warrants to active boiler room targets that the department has identified as potentially selling investments illegally and/or fraudulently.

The department cautioned that while many legitimate companies use telemarketing to sell their products or services, investors should be wary of investment products sold online or by strangers "cold calling" them. Since it is difficult to verify the value or validity of offerings made in that manner, many such offerings may be highly risky and subject to abuse. When the financial future of investors is at stake, they should deal with financial professionals with whom they have an established relationship of trust. Investors should investigate all offerings before investing. The Department of Corporations can offer useful information to investors on whether the financial professionals are registered or have any enforcement actions against them. Investors may click on these links for "Financial Safety Tips" and tips on how to "Investigate Before You Invest," from the department's website.

In the sweep, the task force issued 92 Desist and Refrain Orders to 20 entities and 30 individuals in California, Florida, Nevada and Utah for the illegal and/or fraudulent offer and sale of securities and/or for acting as an unlicensed broker-dealer. To date, the project has also filed two civil actions against six entities and five individuals, served four search warrants, arrested one person and indicted five others for violations that include securities fraud, grand theft, selling securities illegally and acting as a securities broker-dealer without a license.

The teams also issued 20 subpoenas for investor lists, offering materials, sales scripts, financial records, advertising and telephone records to 20 entities and 26 individuals and paid "Knock-and-Notice" visits to 74 companies warning them that they might be violating the state securities laws and seeking their voluntary cooperation in the investigations.

The department noted that this was just phase one of a two-year project that has the goal of attacking illegal and fraudulent telemarketing operations in Southern California with all of the administrative, civil and criminal remedies available to local and state law enforcement and regulatory agencies in the area. A grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice has funded a command center, project coordinator, databases to track targets of investigations, and outreach efforts to educate investors about how boiler rooms target seniors and other communities and what steps they can take to become "fraud fighters" instead of fraud victims. In fact, many of the leads for the current sweep were obtained through the cooperation of fraud fighter volunteers across the country posing as potential investors.

Follow-up in the weeks and months ahead will include analyzing the documents seized in the raids and provided voluntarily, issuing additional subpoenas, search warrants and orders and bringing civil and criminal actions. The grant project is expected to provide a model for other parts of the country in which illegal telemarketing activity is a serious problem.

The Department of Corporations is California's Investment and Financing Authority, reporting to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and the Governor. The Department is responsible for the regulation, enforcement and licensing of securities, franchises, off-exchange commodities, investment and financial services, independent escrows, consumer and commercial finance lending and residential mortgage lending. For further information or to obtain a complaint form, see the Department's Web site at www.corp.ca.gov.