Restaurant.com and possible fraud

[Ann-Marie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ann-Marie]

My friend used restaurant.com once to purchase a few certificates. About 1 or 2 months later, she started getting charges on her credit card for "shopping Essentials" at $14.95 each charge. She called the telephone number on the credit card associated with "Shopping Essentials", and was told that she agreed to sign up for this online shopping club when she purchased a restaurant.com certificate. She told them that she had never done so. They agreed to refund her money, but she is still waiting. She then called restaurant.com, and was told that she compleated a survey while on the restaurant.com site that gave her $10.00 credit, and she agreed to join the "Shopping Essentials". My friend is certain she never do this. If you do a search for "Shopping Essentials", you get many links about this companies fraudulent activity. Has anyone experienced it? This is also going on with classmates.com.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I know about the $10 credit at the end of the purchase, She had to click on it or hit no thanks and take me to view my certificates. Many sites do this and people get drawn into it because of the $10 free gift.

[ace2000 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close ace2000]

This is why it's a great idea to use PAYPAL!!!!

[Ann-Marie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ann-Marie]

I can tell you that I know my friend very well, and she DID NOT do a survey. I have added a link to this happening to other, and not just on restaurant.com, but on other websites as well.

Rip-off Report: Shopping Essentials Plus Beware of Bogus Credit card charges from Shopping Essentials Plus Internet

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Thanks for the warning!