Great Expectations Indeed !

Vahene · Post by **Vahene** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:30 pm

http://www.nbc4i.com/family/5277150/detail.html

Thing is, I've heard of this place. Hehe. Job before this previous one.. I was a Fraud Investigator for a credit card company. You wouldn't even believe how many people see this sort of thing on their credit card statement, have no clue what it is, and of course, wouldn't even fathom the other party of their relationship (hubby/wife/partner) would be doing something like this and charging it. Because, what could cost this much?

Wish I could get this sort of money. Wonder what their legal fees were?

-K

Wyvern · Post by **Wyvern** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:37 pm

Maybe I'm just tired, but I am confused....I dont see the connection between what you said and the report....about a dating agency being sued right?

Vahene · Post by **Vahene** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:43 pm

Basically what would happen is.. wife would see charges for Great Expectations for 3000$ on credit card statement, call the credit card company, claim they didn't do it, it would get claimed as fraud.. we would investigate, get the drafts back.. find out its valid, her husband actually signed up for it, challenge them, and put the money back on their account for them to pay for since its a valid charge.

I'm reading between the lines, since I did this for a living, I suppose, I should have explained further I guess. This article, they sued the dating service for paying too much for the service, under NY law they can't pay over a certain amount of money.. they're not really related, but that's.. how I recognized the service, because we have had a lot of fraud claimed with this company (and I remember one case in particular that I unfortunately had to force the person to pay for the charges), with spouses and partners claiming it as fraud because of the amount of money they charge. I've never ever known a company to charge this much for a mere dating service.

-K