866-387-2521

this number is involved in multiple scams do not give them any personal information

I found a charge on my bank account for $4.95 twice. It says MC-FRAUDPROTECTION 866-3872521. I called the number and they said they were closed.

I never gave anyone my credit card number for any sort of fraud protection. Especially not twice! I am going to call back during business hours and get a refund, then I am going to get a new debit card!

Me TOO!! Just looked at my bank statement and there is a  charge on  there for $4.95.I never  signed up for this either. I will call  during business hours as well, though the answering machine didnt say what company they were.

I looked up # in BBB site and didnt  come up  with a  company name, any one else know  who these guys are???
Thanks

I was also charged the 4.95 tried to call several times, I either got a busy signal, or got in the middle of a recording telling me a web site to go to or I got some woman telling me due to the holidays the volume of calls was so great the average wait was over 20 min. It would be better to call back another time...lol. But the woman said thank you for calling Fraud Protection Resources. I tried to look them up at BBB but it came up with many other names. Did anyone get there funds back or how did you stop them from taking any more?

i just looked online and i gota a charge from them and i never even recieved a call or used my card outside of grocrie stores how did they get my things fraud protection my rear im sueing them for fraud!

I'm sorry there are so many others who have become victims of this "fraud protection" but I do believe it's a company tied to Google somehow.  I just had some charges from them after only looking into their 'work from home' site.  I agreed to pay a dollar for some info which I never even received and then a few days later they charged my bank account like sixty bucks and overdrew my account to over $140!!!  I say they're probably linked because on my statement, it showed the same 'fraudprotection' but it was followed by "la" which was the same as the google thing.  I threatened to sue (google) and they refunded all of the money they cost me but if these people are another part of the company, I will definitely sue them anyway.  If anyone has any kind of luck, let us know.  I will do the same.

I think you're right, they are tied to Google. I have tried the Google Success Kit and they keep charging me $11.95 + fraud protection $4.95 + identity security $9.95 for two months so far. I called the number in my bank account balance (866-341-0767) and a recorded voice ask me to access quickcashsupport.com website and to chat with a service agent there in order to have it cancelled. Later, you have to go to fraudprotectionhelpdesk.com and idthefthelpdesk.com to stop the charges linked to the Google Success Kit account. If you have your information handy, you wont have problems at all and you will get a cancellation number for each one of the accounts.

They say it is cleary stated this charges will start right after 7 days you receive the trial kit, but the kit will never arrive and the terms and conditions about the charges, are in a very small letters. What we have to do is to make sure to ALWYAS read the terms and conditions before we buy any item, specially from the Google products, because they can charge from 11.95 to 72.89 monthly and they are usually tied to another websites, which will be charging you monthly as well.

I hope this Help.

I wish someone knew who they were. I didn't go to any google site. I seen these charges on my bank activity and have no clue what these charges were. I just want to know how they got my account number or debit card number to charge me! Does anyone know where to report this kind of thing? LOL for fraud! This really pisses me off.

excellent thread

I just noticed this charge on my account as of 1/22/2009
I called them.  They are located in Iowa. The name of the company is Fraud Protection Resources.  If you signed up for Google Cash, there is something in the fine print about ALSO signing up for this Fraud Protection nonsense.  If you don't cancel within 2 weeks of signing up for Google Cash, they charge you $4.95 a month.  I cancelled and it was affective today.  They gave me a cancellation number and promised that there would be no future billing.

It may be connected to google cash, but I discovered that when I requested a credit report from Credit Report America, they only bait you with the 7-day trial period but don't have anywhere disclosed on the webpage that you would be enrolled in 2 other programs. It may have been disclosed under the terms and condtions and I may not have understood.

After 14 days of enrolling you must cancel the Fraud Protection and then after 21 days you must cancel the Identiy Theft Protection. What is even more deceiving is I called and talked to someone about cancelling my account period.

I didn't give any specific program, but they didn't ask or let me know that there were other programs still active or they didn't even ask if I wanted to cancel the other two also.

I got my credit report from a game, in which you purchase or gain points for extra items on the game, by participating in one of the offers or doing it by paying cash, ie google cash etc.

I hope this will give some insight on where your transactions derived from.

I really hate feeling like an idiot.

I also found this charge on my bank statement that I never made. After seeing this tomorrow morning (mon) I'll be going to my bank to fix this and then to LVMPD Fraud Unit and then to the FBI. I am HIGHLY PISSED and these thieves are going to know it. I don't know how they got my card number, it's a new card. I never received a call from them, it just appeared on my bank statement dated 1-21-09. FYI - I really wanted to use offensive words.

This fraudulent charge for fraud protection came through "Earn Cash From Grants" that was an ad on my "Myspace" home page. Even though I canceled in less than 24 hrs. and was given a cancellation number and told that there would be no further charges it was a ruse. It would also appear that "Myspace" approves of this type of scam for they allow them to use their site to solicite victims. If you were victimized through "Myspace" contact them, as I did, and write a strongly worded note as to what you think of this and ask them to ban all such ads from their site.

These people don't have ANYTHING to do with Google. If you have a charge on your credit card, it's because within the last month you signed up for some "Free Trial" Membership to a scammer like Google Money Tree or Google Success Kit and the like. If you read their websites, you'll note that ALL of them say "Not affiliated with Google" in their disclaimer. They are selling you a high priced "service" for which they make sure you'll forget to cancel in time, or mislead you into thinking you cancelled in time. Then you get hit with THEIR charges. You call them, cancel the membership (they refuse to refund you're money) and you "think" it's over. Then you find out this happened, why? because like many others, after you dealt with them you didn't read their agreement. If you had you would have found the "affiliate companies" listed in small print that you needed to cancel your account with. No, It's not fair business practice, but they DO tell you (they just distract you from noticing the fine details).

I don't work for Google, but I do appreciate their efforts and goals. My advice to all who search this phone # or business name: Next time you're interested in "get rich quick" or even "make extra cash" scemes, go to google and search for that company and type scam afterwards. Or better yet, search the company in Rip Off Report's database. These people live by the motto "There's a sucker born every minute, and a salesman to sell him". Don't be the sucker next time.

By the way, I got scammed for close to $200 in one week because I didn't do this. So, my advice is from experience.

Good luck to all

I called them this morning and got through, they comfirmed that it came through "Cash From Grants" it seems that they are hooked up with many deceptive companies for it took her a while to tell me which one got me. I demanded that they cancel and give my money back and received a cancelation number and promised a refund within 5 to 7 days. I informed her that it had better be there for if it is not within the time stated that I would be talking to high ranking family members with local law inforcement, and that as they informed me that the call may be recorded that on my end it WAS. To make sure they couldn't take money again I went to my bank, cancelled my card and requested a new one, it could take a week to get it but worth the wait. I'm still mad at "Myspace" for allowing them to use their site to seek prey.

STILL HIGHLY PISSED !!!!

I also got caught up in this scam.I ordered the Google Kit which I never recieved and since have gotten chardeg $4.95. When I called 866-387-2521 all I got was hold for a representative, about 5 minutes woth of hold music and then was hung up on. I am really pissed off. Now I must go on a wild goose chase to track this down. Don't fall for this scam.

Just saw a posting on my Account made on 1/27/2009 for $4.95, I know it's not that much but it disturbs me that something showed on my account that I didn't purchase!

I sent a message to my bank for a dispute form.  I called the number and canceled whatever program that is.  I tried to get them to give me a refund but they told me they could not and that I had agreed for the service through Credit Report America!  I never signed up for Credit Report America!!!  I told them this over the phone, I told them I have never had to have my credit checked for anything and I didn't do it.  I never saw any sort of agreement for this at all not online, not in person not anything.  THEY WILL NOT GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK!!!

I tried to look them up on the BBB site to file a complaint.  No one showed!  I talked to a Lindsey at their company, it wasn't even a female I was talking to but that's the name they gave me.  Pretty fishy if you ask me.  They did give me a confirmation number for the cancellation.  

Apparently, their service is in Fraud Protection... It's a load of crap if you ask me.  I already have fraud protection services through my bank, I don't need it from some scam company!

I will be stopping by my bank on Monday morning.  After I talk to a personal banker I will be filing this with the local police department and our attorney general.

I am pretty shook up that someone out there grabs your information and takes your money.  To be a victim of sleaze like this is just sad.  I know that times are hard financially right now for everyone but this is a crime that needs to be dealt with.  Someone will pay for doing this to me because it has compromised my own piece of mind.

I received this $4.95 charge on my bank statement and I believe it came from signing up for a government grants trial for $1.  I cancelled that within the time period but this Fraud Protection must have been in the fine print.  I am disputing it with my bank.