Credit card fraud

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I have sent an email to the attorney generel in CA.
maybe you guys would know if i need to do anything else.

A short of the E-mail I sent

"My son had ordered a girls gone wild video from GGW video appx. 2 years ago.
recently we have noticed a big deficit in our checking account balance wich led us to investigate why our balance had been so low,
After investigating we found that GGW Video has been charging our account 24.98 per month ever since the "single video" was purchased.
I called to find ask why it has been charged over and over and they claim I was sent all these videos. Furthermore The address they claim to be sending them to I have not lived at for 15 months.
I never authorized more than one charge for a video and am furious that they continue to debit my credit card month after month.
please let me know what steps i need to take to recieve my money back from this company."


BTW I contacted GGW Video and they are the rudest people I have ever talked too.
And refuse to have anything to do with refunding my money.
and flat out called me a liar when i said i have not ordered or received any videos after the 1 original.

what else can i do ?

ps.... all the stayments i could dig up was 17@24.98 per month
and before you say it....... i know i should check my statement more often than 2 years :)
well,we have but it just never raised a red flag
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Post by b-man1 »

you will see faster results by contesting the charges with your CC company. then the CC company goes after them for you. :)
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Originally posted by b-man1
you will see faster results by contesting the charges with your CC company. then the CC company goes after them for you. :)



they will only go back 60 days
bank debit

I need to go back almost 2 years :(
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Post by renovation »

Originally posted by wesg
they will only go back 60 days
bank debit

I need to go back almost 2 years :(

wes - this whole deal sucks i feel for you !
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I am not alone in this either
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wow...i didn't realize that. sorry man! :(
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Post by Chris305 »

Wesg, how old is your son?
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Originally posted by Chris305
Wesg, how old is your son?



17 at the time of order
19 now

but he placed it in my wifes name
so if your thinking under age, I dont think I have a leg to stand on
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Post by fearfox »

Hey wesg you think there hard to deal with try giving HP a call, i left messages spoke to may diff departments, sent emails, letters nothing. LOL i been trying to get issue solved for about 1 year and 4 months now, woot getting close to six lol.
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I would think that you should be able to file in small claims court for that amount. Small claims court are amounts under $5000.
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Post by MK888 »

Ouch... sorry to hear that.. I am terrified to use a debit card online. I think a CC is safer. You should contact a lawer. It may cost a couple of bucks, but a lawer, might scare them a bit. Also, spread some bad press about them. Here is good, but send email to some news organizations. With the bad press they got recently with their founder getting arrested, this might work as well.
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Post by TruckStuff »

Is this a debit card or a credit card? You seem to indicate that it might be a debit card, in which case, you're pretty much screwed.

Let this be a lesson to everyone: NEVER NEVER NEVER use debit cards online! You're asking to get ripped off. :)
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that is the most rediculous thing I have ever heard!!
Paying for porno!? don't you have the net!? :D

kidding aside, this is amazingly retarded...I really hope you get your money back...
and by the sounds of how many people got takken in this, you should get it all back...

if not Judge Judy? :) *ie small claims
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atleast it was for girls gone wild and not College guys explosed :o
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Re: Credit card fraud

Post by DoPeY5007 »

Originally posted by wesg
I never authorized more than one charge for a video and am furious that they continue to debit my credit card month after month.
yes you did, when you order one video from them it is a subscription untill you cancel
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