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I also am in the midst of a problem with Lease Finance Group LLC, they are scam artists who prey on new small business owners. They were recommended to me by a merchant service credit card company that was supposed to be reputable. I just went back into my file with this recommender and the info in the beginning said that they do all that they can to help their customers. Well, they fall far short of the mark by using Lease Finance Group LLC.

I will be writing to the Illinois Attorney General`s office tomorrow, then I`ll also check with the FTC, the BBB (a waste of time apparently), and by an attorney`s recommendation, the US Postal Service. The more the better. I cannot imagine how this company has been able to continue doing "business" when others online have said that they have filed complaints with various agencies and nothing seems to be stopping these crooks. My credit card machine new would sell for around $350 tops and I have paid Lease Finance Group at least $1,050 so far. However, they have me on a 4 year non-cancellable lease with a balance of around $2,100, for $3,150 for a $350 machine and I have never processed one transaction through them to date.

I would like to hear from anyone who has written letters to any agency and some help on what I should be stating in my letters that I would like to get into the mail right away. I would be open to participating in a class action lawsuit, but realize this would be very difficult to pull off. But, at least we all can keep posting and sharing to do what we can to help the victims that need some guidance, and to make absolutely sure the word gets online about how these people cheat new business owners every day. They must be nearing thousands of complaints online by now.

Please email me if you have some input for me, it would be highly appreciated and I will post what results or responses I get from the agencies once I have submitted my letters.

thanks,

Henry

As a former consumer investigative reporter for Post Newsweek TV that also blogs at Consumer Advocate Shock Jock known as the "Howard Stern of Consumerism" you have done moe than most people do, Tran.! 

Yes, make sure and contact the governor`s office of consumer affairs also.

Right now I`m working on a story about a company called Infusion Software that you may have seen promoted by Internet Marketing gurus like Rich Schefren, Matt Bacak, Tony Robbins, etc. They have this good looking slick promoter by the name of David Fagan go around to the Internet Marketing gurus workshops like Bacak`s Madness one and give slick "dog and pony" shows and then offer once in a lifetime specials just because they are at the workshop and friends of the marketer putting on the workshop.

So I`m there in Atlanta attending the workshop listening to the presentation thinking that just might be a good program for one of my clients. You see I own a Web 2 Marketing consulting business called WOW!Presentation.  So I get the owner of the company on the phone with David and he tells him about Infusion Software. My client agrees it could work for us.

I should have recognized the RED flag that has been mentioned in regards to this credit card processing scam. David had to have the contract signed right there before he left that afternoon. I had that little "gut level" sign that I should have followed. ALWAYS follow it!

Any way I signed the contract for the owner and they took his credit info on the CONDITION he would have a TRIAL period to use the software of 57 days.  Not only did David say that before over 100 attendees he also repeated it to owner and myself on the phone call.

So I get a call today from the owner very politely telling me that Infusion has decide there are CONDITIONS with this trial period that conveniently got left out by David. Sound familiar?

Well since I was the lead reporter in the late 60s that helped to shutdown the original Ammco Transmission I`m not one to screw with! Also ask Bell South and IKEA where I had to do battle with both for one of my business partners.

I plan to DESTROY their business and their reputations before this is over!  If they don`t rectify this situation where my client pays nothing to them they will wish that I had never been born!

You see I use to do the TV news with Steve Croft of 60 Minutes too!

So you fight those SOBS just like I plan to fight Infusion! Go to Internet Marketing forums like Young Entrepreneur where I mentor at. Go to the Warrior`s Forum where loads of Internet Marketers hang out.

You would think that these companies would be SMARTER in these tough times but just be glad that you have not lost every thing you have dreamed and planned for like that SOB Madoff has done to those poor people that have lost EVERY thing they have!

Hugh Simpson



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I would advise that you see if any where in that contract you signed there is any type of OUT clause. If you are a member of a service like PrePaid Legal get the attorney to look it over.

Also why not also report your stories to my friend Clark Howard so that his legal beagles can find a solution too.

By the way I just had a call from Infusion Software`s Director of Communications who is bending over backwards to stop my further investigation into the situation I ran into at Matt Bacak`s Madness workshop. She is promising a win/win solution by the end of the day.

I have enclosed below a copy of the info that I sent to their office yesterday so that you can use this format to possibly get results from those leasing people at NPMG.

This stupid soft ware installed on this site will not let me paste what I had planned to show you.

If anyone wants a copy let me know at hugh009@gmail.com Subject: Infusion

Hugh









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I am in Tennessee and have been contacted by the same Sean and Eric others have mentioned as previously with NPMG.  They are still "selling" their leases to Lease Finance Group, LLC in Chicago.  They are now operating under the name of Icon Payment Solutions.  However, the same "scam" is at work.  If a class action lawsuit is inforce, please let me know.  Yes, there is a signed contract, but it WAS obtained from us by Eric Gunter under very false pretenses.  We were told we were approved for a cash advance and that it would be deposited in our account within 5 business days.  It has been over 6 weeks, and this has not happen.  We have never opened our package from LFG, however our bank account has been debited a minimum transaction fee and the $83.00 lease fee (48 mos)  This too, is for a piece of equipment we have yet to even use, nor will.  It has been sent back to LFG.  I want these scam artists to PAY.  I am sick of being the one who is being taken.  I don`t want to just get even, I`m ready to get ahead at the bad guys expense for a change!!!!  Again, if there is a lawsuit in the works, and you need more business owners to confirm your stories and NPMP ie...ICon Payment Solutions` scams, please contact me. 

I signed a lease with Lease Finance Group LLC and was very nervous about a credit card machine. The salesman who sold it to me said that if I was no longer in business or no longer needed it he would buy it back in one year. I asked for it on paper. It was emailed to me from their email address. I saved it and printed a copy. Needless to say I did not need it and the letter does not mean much even with HIS signature. I received a letter threatening me and telling me to pay $2,262.58 even though it has showed up on my credit report as $1,548 and a charge off. Has anyone been served papers for court or are they just pushing?

I too have had a horrible experience with npmg (PPS).  Not only are they rude, but seem to enjoy dishing it out.  Their customer service is more dis-service and purposely mislead the consumer.  Can anyone tell me who is their CEO/president?  I am not able to find that information and firmly believe in writing letters to complain.  When I signed up, I wanted to make sure I would not have any cancellation fees, so the rep drew a line thru that section of the contract.  I thought I would be safe...even when I questioned the same section that states any scratch-outs or mark-throughs does not alter the original contract.  I was assured that with his initials, the cancellation would be honored without assessing the cancellation fees....boy was he wrong, and the reps on the phone grill you about "did you not read the contract?!  Of course, I read it! and questioned it, yet to what purpose now?  Do I file a complaint with the District Attorney --which state? 

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