Apr 7, 2009
It was my own stupidity that led me to give a caller from this same pharmaceutical sales outfit my checking account number about a year ago, to purchase diet pills. Nothing happened for about three weeks -- then I received a diet medication in the mail -- sent from New Delhi. (It was not the med we talked about on the phone, but a substitute I'd never heard of -- which did not work particularly well for me. Should have sent them back but didn't.)
The sales calls continued unabated, of course, though I asked, threatened and begged them to stop. I continuously declined to purchase anything else. But suddenly, 5 or 6 months after the first delivery, another package of the meds showed up unrequested and, as far as I knew, unpaid for (no checks lodged against my account -- YET.) About 3 weeks later, got a call from a guy from same company who wanted to "give me a delivery number." After a heated discussion in which I repeatedly said I had ordered nothing, he expressed confusion, and kept trying to give me this "delivery confirmation" number. I didn't take the number, but I guess the call served their purpose of claiming I had ordered. About two weeks later -- perhaps strategically "slipped in" when I might not be looking -- a check with "authorization on file" processed in my account for $299.
I was furious, but eventually -- feeling stupid and guilty for not returning the pills that second time -- I did nothing.
Well, it just happend again. Pills arrived today -- this time I never spoke to anyone from the company, on any occasion, on any pretext (finally got caller I.D. and just don't answer "out of area" calls.) Today, I immediately got online to check my account: yep, "Intertrans - Global Innovators processed a check for $260 about a week ago, with the notation "authorization on file."
This time I'm going to the mat. I hope I don't have to change my checking account number, but whatever it takes -- these dudes will not just "take some" whenever they please.