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It looks like a timeshare scam is now targeting owners at the Lindo Mar Resort. I've gotten a few reports over the last few days of owners getting cold calls promising ridiculously high selling prices.
The pitch appears to be one we've heard many times before:
The company that is interested in buying our week at the Lindomar keeps calling back and they sound very legitimate. The deal is this: we show them proof of ownership (we can mark “VOID” across the document), they send us a cashier’s check for the amount of $28,490 and two weeks later we send them a 7% commission. I asked the woman who would want to buy this? She said there are companies looking to make “hostile takeovers” of properties and then make changes to them.
Be aware if you receive this telemarketing call (regardless of the company name- they change disguises almost daily) that this is simply a scam!
It's unclear whether they are using counterfeit checks in order to skim money, or most likely if they are just using the same fake "closing cost and federal tax" scheme to convince owners to wire money to a Mexican bank. Regardless, as is always the case with cold calls about timeshare resales or rentals- the safest thing an owner can do is simply HANG UP the phone!
The pitch appears to be one we've heard many times before:
The company that is interested in buying our week at the Lindomar keeps calling back and they sound very legitimate. The deal is this: we show them proof of ownership (we can mark “VOID” across the document), they send us a cashier’s check for the amount of $28,490 and two weeks later we send them a 7% commission. I asked the woman who would want to buy this? She said there are companies looking to make “hostile takeovers” of properties and then make changes to them.
Be aware if you receive this telemarketing call (regardless of the company name- they change disguises almost daily) that this is simply a scam!
It's unclear whether they are using counterfeit checks in order to skim money, or most likely if they are just using the same fake "closing cost and federal tax" scheme to convince owners to wire money to a Mexican bank. Regardless, as is always the case with cold calls about timeshare resales or rentals- the safest thing an owner can do is simply HANG UP the phone!