WOW! when I got on this site - I am amazed just how bad this company is to others as well as us.. Here is our complaint/story:

My Nephew (18 years old) happened to answer the phone one day when someone from Mountain called. They started the conversation off with you have WON a $1000.00 shopping spree. He was sooooooo excited!!! Then they proceeded to tell him he would receive something like 8 magazines per month but he had to give his bank card #. So he did it!!! What you need to know about my nephew is that he is mentally handicapped with OCD, ADD, Asbergers. We were so afraid for him and his bank account! We took this complaint to our bank and they called Moutain along with us to explain his mental challenges and that he is in no way capabile of making adult decisions about money but they didn't care... they continued to say - "we recorded our conversation of him agreeing that he is 18 years of age and he agreed so sorry but we will not cancel" We then went to our local DA's office - they advised that Moutain legally has to have a 30 day cancel policy - when calling Moutain back with DA's information they said - "we have no cancel policy, we are a prepaid magazine sales company and we don't have to have a cancel policy in effect. We will not cancel this subscription. These people would only cooperate with us if we faxed them a letter on his Dr. letterhead stating his mental handicap! Which we did today.

Just telling everyone so you can beware!!! This company is scamming innocent people..

THESE SCAMMERS CALL AND SAY THAT MY CREDIT CARD OR SOMETHING HAVE ME ON A PREFERRED CUSTOMERS LIST AND THAT I HAVE A $1000.00 SHOPPING SPREE AVAILABLE. YEAH RIGHT! I WAS SMART TO READ ABOUT THEM ONLINE BEFORE I GIVE THEM MY CREDIT CARD INFORMATION. THEY TRY TO SOUND ALL SWEET AND NICE. THAT SEEMED TO GOOD TO BE TRUE. THE LADY DID SAY THAT THERE WAS A SMALL SHIPPING AND HANDLING FEE BUT THEY TRY TO WRAP YOU UP WITH THE WHOLE $1000.00 SINCE THEY NOW PEOPLE NEED MONEY RIGHT NOW. THEY SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN FOR SWCAMMING PEOPLE LIKE THEY DO. PLEASE DON'T FALL FOR ALL THIS BULL! THE INTERNET IS VERY HELPFUL ON THINGS LIKE THIS. JUST WANTED TO WARN THOSE OF YOU WHO GET CALLED. THANKS!

They got me after I had just been off work from a 12 hour day getting ready for a store inventory count the next day. I of coarse got charged the very next day for 49.00, though it was supposed to be a hold. After a few monthes of trying to contact them here and there to cancel the account, cause you can never get ahold of anyone, I finally did. A supervisor or owner or what have you gets on the line and tells me sir, if they said you could cancel the account, then they where lieing and they would be fired for it, I said well, looks like you have some training todo on your end, have a nice day cancel my account. Of coarse they said no, so I got on the phone with my bank right after the call and canceled my card so they could not debit out anything else from me. Few monthes later, after not answering there calls, I get a call on my house line, hmm how nice. But this time is from some Mirand Response lady saying how she aggrees that I should not be having to pay and that they did me wrong, but I could resolve all of this if I paid them 120.00 for the next few monthes, since she could cut my total due in half. Or if i wanted to be done with it completely and not get any other magizines and such, that I could simply pay them 480.00 and it would be resolved. Supposedly she did not work for Mountain Area, though in the back ground I heard a lady answering the phone prolly in the next little cubical saying, Thanks for calling Mountain Area Magizine, haha. Now I heard the recording, and yeah it sounded like me, so I can not dispute the fact they got me when I was gulliable I suppose, but when I started stating the fact to this Daniel chick at Mirand Response( AKA Mountain Area Communications) she started getting all offensive, and sure I did have a little more loudness to my voice by this time, told her that I would not be paying and then she said, well you will pay in time, you will be hearing from our Lawyers. So guess its time to get a laywer myself, as I would rather pay them the 2k then pay that scam of a company another dime. Its sad to see all these others that have been duked by these people, but is nice to see that I was not the only one. So, looks like my next adventure begins. Oh did some looking on this Mirand company, they are a collections agency based out of Jamica or something like that. Looks like they hired some thugs to try to get there cash. Well, will keep you all posted on my little adventure against a scam bs company. Could think of other things I could be doing at this time I tell ya.

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employee decided charge unauthorized transactions to my debit card and refused to fix them. My bank was cooperative however.

I am a victim of this mountain area communications fraud. I received a call from a lady named Brandy, who left me a voicemail about me being selected to win a $1, 000 shopping spree. Like many others, I too was sweet talked into agreeing to accept the $1, 000 shopping spree and cunned into getting 5 free magazines which is when they told me that I wouldnt have to pay for anything until 7 days later. Well my dad looked at the accounts later and saw that there was a total of $54.85 withdrawn out of my account. But when i talked to them they told me they only needed my number for verification that my card was valid. I was also told about the United Benefit Advantage, 'discount company' and that i could get a 30 day free trial. I dont know what all to do besides call them back and cancel it or try to sue them for fraud. I need help and dont know what else to do, any ideas?