I generally keep an eye on my credit card statements just to watch my spending and make sure nothing funky is going on. Last month, I did notice some serious funk, and not the groovy kind either. A company callling itself FedGrantUSA.com has been charging my credit card without my permission on a recurring monthly basis.

Naturally, I called my credit card company to get these charges revoked. I was successful in blocking these theives from stealing anymore money, but I’m still missing $39.95. The charge showed up as, ” PROFITGGL8882164952(Other). ” Turns out those numbers are their customer service (haha) number. I called it to try and reclaim the money that they plucked from my pocket while I was sleeping or working hard at my job. I was greeted by a hostile woman who insisted that it was indeed me who ordered a get-rich-quick informational DVD about how to scam Google for cash or some other baloney. (This was the $39.95) I also had some sort of monthy charge for $7.97 that showed up as, ” WWW FEDGRANTUSA COM(Dining and Entertainment) ” for which I have no idea. The $7.95 was subsequently returned to me for the last two months that I had been charged, but I’m still waiting on the $39.95.

If you visit fedgrantusa.com, you are presented with two options: Fraud recovery or I’m an idiot, let me in. If you proceed down the idiot’s path of doom, it leads you to http://www.grantmemberssite.com/

To say the least, I’m pretty upset with this company, and I encourage anyone who reads this posting to watch their back and maybe do their own research on these bottom feeding leeches. Here’s a bit of information to help you get started:

FedGrantUSA.com’s Grand Dragon ringleader is “Dr.” John Porter.
If I saw him walking down the street, I would sidle up, fart loudly, take his wallet, remove exactly $39.95 + $7.95 + $7.95 + $7.95 + etc… and then sell his credit cards to the nearest bum for a nickel just so he could tast a bit of his own medicine. After that, I’d invite him to a party at my house where all the victims of his sham company could meet him face to fist..I mean face.

A few interesting things I’ve dug up online:
435-773-1795 - supposedly a direct line to some customer service nit.
Given email was customerservice@cshelp.org –so I visited cshelp.org, but their servers are down due to the heat from the friction of extracting stolen credit card information.

1-800-487-6815 Fedgrantusa.com’s customer service number where you can be belligerantly bullied into hearing a sales pitch for the very scam that you were probably a victim of. I find this an excellent number to call from a public restroom and complain about the cleanliness and lack of toilet paper…pretty much anything on my mind. Gibberish is fun too.

And here’s a blog entry from another victim who may have found the leak that started my woes:
Inside the Outside describing how a popular online bike store threw open their security gates to hordes of spammers and crooks…I’m guessing just for kicks.(I too am a was a bike nashbar customer)