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Telemarketing timeshare scam netted $1.3 million, feds say
......Federal prosecutors in the Metro East have indicted three Florida men Wednesday for allegedly bilking hundreds of people across the country of more than $1 million in a time share scam.
Prosecutors say Darnell Disroe, 38, and Michael Lentine, 32, both of Boynton Beach, and Michael Starace, 42, of Lantana, ran Real Timeshare Marketing, which used a telemarketing operation to contact timeshare owners across the U.S.
The company claimed to have found buyers for the timeshares and asked owners to pay closing costs and other expenses that totaled several thousand dollars each, prosecutors said.
There was no buyer or potential sale, however, and Real Timeshare Marketing kept the money, prosecutors said. In a five-month period beginning Dec. 1, 2009, when the telemarketing began, the scam netted $1.3 million from 615 victims in 46 states and six Canadian provinces, prosecutors said........
......Federal prosecutors in the Metro East have indicted three Florida men Wednesday for allegedly bilking hundreds of people across the country of more than $1 million in a time share scam.
Prosecutors say Darnell Disroe, 38, and Michael Lentine, 32, both of Boynton Beach, and Michael Starace, 42, of Lantana, ran Real Timeshare Marketing, which used a telemarketing operation to contact timeshare owners across the U.S.
The company claimed to have found buyers for the timeshares and asked owners to pay closing costs and other expenses that totaled several thousand dollars each, prosecutors said.
There was no buyer or potential sale, however, and Real Timeshare Marketing kept the money, prosecutors said. In a five-month period beginning Dec. 1, 2009, when the telemarketing began, the scam netted $1.3 million from 615 victims in 46 states and six Canadian provinces, prosecutors said........
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