Last Friday I was at my brothers house when a kid came to the front door stating he was the son of a neighbor, he even used the name of a real neighbor. He said he was collecting money for his soccer team to go to Hawaii. I sent him away. The next day I stopped at Jack in the Box. I saw the kid eating a hamburger, I didn't think anything of it. When he was done and went outside to light a cigarette. I thought this was odd since he just told me he was a champion soccer player. I dismissed it anyway. After a short while a few more kids joined him in the parking lot, then a few more gathered outside many of them smoking. There were 8 of them hanging out when a van pulled up and all the kids jumped inside and they took off. I happened to be on my way to the home of an 82 year old woman's house I work for her as a caretaker. She lives in a senior housing development in this same town. I got to her house and told her what had just happened to me. She responded by saying she just wrote a check to her neighbors grandson for 102.00 so his baseball team could go to Hawaii. This was a different kid but almost the same story. I contacted the neighbor and of course the kid had come to their door but he certainly was not related to them in anyway. I called the Police and they responded by telling me they had to catch them and check to see if they had permits...blah blah blah...The next day I decided to speak with the neighbors in this housing development. It turned out they hit that little area pretty hard. I told everyone to cancel their checks and left it at that, at one point I spoke to 8 people 6 had donated. They used the name of the woman I care for on many of her neighbors and even flashed her check. I can't contact everyone but I had a phone list of her neighbors. As for everyone else in Country why isn't someone doing something?
This company has years of documented fraud complaints and they have been linked to over 20 scams. Sounds like they move from town to town pretty quickly. I called the police here today and made a report the officer didn't seem to take it very seriously. She called me later that day because she was getting calls from people. She was very rude and spoke to me as if I had done something wrong by spreading rumors around about a legitimate company. I had given her the receipt when she took the report, it had the name of the company on it. She said she had called to verify they existed. I told her she better do some more investigating. I googled this company myself and found dozens if not hundreds of newpaper articles and police warning about this company since 1999. The receipt says the name of the company is Majestic Sales (clearing business through United Family Circulation). United Family Circulation has many A.K.A.'s and has been linked to several crimes. If you go to the site I listed at the bottom of this complaint you will find a site with many hyperlinks towards the bottom, this site allows you read several articles from their site. Oh by the way did I mention theses are magazines being gifted to our troops. If you gift them you don't even pick the magazines they pick them for you and send them to our troops. What a bunch of BS! I wan to know why these people are getting away with this for so long. What is with the police? If it is a problem they can shove off they will. It is hard t even get them to take a report.
This is just a small bit of information they are al over the internet.
http://edumacation.com/UnitedFamilyCirculation