Timeshare Scams and Fraud

buyback escrow scam for my old timeshare at Club Soleil, Tropicana, Las Vegas, promised profit of $7600 to us including 4 prime 2br weeks at diamond resort properties and 150,000 others through marketing company, and phony "escrow agent" to hold money and title, Tulip Market a non-existent escrow agent which turned out to be a "phishing site" on the internet. Physical details, e mails, etc are non-existent.

This company used to be called Signature Residence Club (and was located next to Mis Suenos restaurant on the marina)and before that Grand Weeks, both of which have numerous complaints listed on line at ripoffcenter.com and tripadvisor.com
The presentation web site shown you is a fraud. When you get back to the states and wait 4 weeks for your password, you find that the website is a dummy. The sale of your timeshare is also a scam. Yet you only have 5 days to cancel your contract. BEWARE.

Invited for free dinner and discussion of "selling" timeshare points for a share of profits in October 2013 The hook: This was settlement from legal action against RCI and timeshare properties who were not marketing the open timeshare properties. This would allow us to cover our time share expenses and we would be able to get vacations for much lower point exchanges through Vacation Services International. Payout would be $O.75 per point exchanged. We exchanged 150,000 points. Pay pack would be $10,000 in March 2014. Cost to transfer was <$8,000 in fees and an additional $400 for the membership with Vacation Services International. We do have a membership with VSP but they know nothing about exchanging points for cash. They refer us back to excess property solu... Read More

This is a new slant on timeshare fraud. They rang to say as we had been scammed in the past paying out several hundreds of pounds in the past, they were in a position to have traced our cash and would refund it. We had to buy Ukash vouchers which amounted to £1900 over a period of 2 weeks. The cash was safe, they assured us. Our cash from the recovery, plus a form to refund our Ukash vouchers would be sent by courier. Well our cash did not come and when I phoned, as instructed, the phones were not taking calls. I phoned both numbers 0208133304 and Ukash no.02032390645 given, both were not taking calls. I then telephoned Ukash Customer services, only to be told that all my vouchers had been cashed, so we have lost £1900. I was advised by Ukash to contact Action Frauid wh... Read More

Received a call from a Mr. Mike Stewart (Spanish accent) with Worldwide Realtors Inc., claiming he could sell my Grand Miramar contract for about $22,000.00. Interesting part to his offer was that he knew my contract number, email address and the fact that I had another time share when I purchased the GM contract. He sent a non-binding proposal by email stating that I should sign the document and return it to his office. Once that was completed, he would send me an official contract to get the process started. I played along and returned the signed document the next day. Within a couple of days I received an email with a Contract attached. It was full of bad spelling and grammar and a slightly different address than the first.
At a later date I received a call from a Mr. Robert ... Read More