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General Discussion>BRENDA AND ASSOCIATES strikes again
larryinlc 11:27 AM 04-28-2011
This is the second time this fraud outfit has billed my credit card with a 4.93 charge for a video game that I did not purchase. I'm happy that Visa fraud unit stays on top of this sort of stuff, but getting a new card every couple months is getting old. Someone needs to find out where these people are and throw the lot of them in jail!

Larry
J0eybb 11:31 AM 04-28-2011
Do you know how you "signed up" for this subscription?
larryinlc 11:35 AM 04-28-2011
I didn't. I haven't played a video game in the last 20 years. Doing a google search on the above fraudsters, it appears that I'm not alone

Originally Posted by J0eybb:
Do you know how you "signed up" for this subscription?

cuetime 01:36 PM 01-12-2012
Brenda And Associates is the name of a Realtor group in Delaware. We have no way of charging anyone's debit card on our site www.BrendaAndAssociates.com. These fraudulent charges have all been made from someone in Florida who apparently took our identy and used it to scam others. Please be assured, the Real Estate team of Brenda And Associates (in Delaware) has no connection to these people!
maninblack 02:58 PM 01-12-2012
I'm confused as to how cuetime found this website. Sounds fishy if you ask me.
Doctorossi 03:00 PM 01-12-2012
Originally Posted by maninblack:
I'm confused as to how cuetime found this website. Sounds fishy if you ask me.
They probably Googled "Brenda and Associates" and "fraud"- not rocket surgery.
pektel 03:04 PM 01-12-2012
you can also use teh search engine boardtracker.com to do a google-esque search of online forums.

It's actually a good tool for business owners to use to see what people are saying about them on the internet. There are other avenues as well to search out who is talking about you. I just took a seminar on social media and how to best utilize it to grow your business, and this was something they talked about specifically.
Doctorossi 03:07 PM 01-12-2012
Originally Posted by pektel:
you can also use teh search engine boardtracker.com to do a google-esque search of online forums.

It's actually a good tool for business owners to use to see what people are saying about them on the internet. There are other avenues as well to search out who is talking about you. I just took a seminar on social media and how to best utilize it to grow your business, and this was something they talked about specifically.
It's not difficult to get Asylum posts to come up on Google. I once Googled a particular cigar I was intrigued by and the top result was my own post about it here.
pektel 03:11 PM 01-12-2012
Right. you can also type in a query at www.google.com/alerts and it will alert you via email when something pops up. So if cuetime has "brenda and associates" as a query, they could get an instant email message when they are mentioned somewhere within google's eyesight.

you can also use www.kurrently.com to search facebook and twitter.
Dr Voss 03:41 PM 01-12-2012
Why is it that everything fun has to be screwed up by greedy dirt bags?
maninblack 03:49 PM 01-12-2012
Originally Posted by Doctorossi:
They probably Googled "Brenda and Associates" and "fraud"- not rocket surgery.
That's why I never claim to be a "rocket scientist".
icehog3 03:54 PM 01-12-2012
This is from an issue that is 9 months old, so I am shutting her down.
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