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Jess Kinmont and John P. Wenz Jr.’s scam business — Pro Timeshare Resales, a Florida limited liability company purporting to promote reselling timeshares — defrauded over 8,000 people of ...
Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically for any scam that misrepresents what is being sold.
The biggest red flag of a timeshare exit scam is having to pay an upfront free. Other red flags include: Unsolicited offers, sometimes purporting to come from legitimate timeshare companies.
A telemarketing ring that allegedly scammed millions from consumers nationwide looking to sell their timeshares was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission, the agency announced today.There were ...
William Joseph McCorkle (born 1966 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American businessman, former real estate guru and former owner of William McCorkle Seminars.In the 1990s he and his wife Chantal created a number of late-night television infomercials, selling materials which purported to teach people how to make money buying foreclosed real estate properties.
According to the Florida Attorney General’s Office, timeshare owners are also especially vulnerable to timeshare resale scams. [2] Ultimately, many owners look to simply give-away, or donate their timeshare to a willing party because their timeshare investment has become a liability.
Timeshare resales ads on websites and e-mails dangling an offer for quick cash might be tempting, but beware that many are scams. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys ...
According to a two-part television news report broadcast by Atlanta's Fox affiliate WAGA-TV in May 2007, Mr. Leccima didn't own the houses he claimed to have sold on Flip This House and also staged some of the renovations depicted on the show (ceiling panels were later seen falling, which was blamed on the inferior work of a sub-contractor in ...