I got scammed for $29,.95.  When you call the number back you get a tape response that refunds will be mailed out soon.  Ive been waiting for over 5 months.

Our charge for 29.95 was on 4/1 (Wisconsin based bank, Minneapolis IP.), our bank recommended suspending the account for all payment transactions and open a new account (which we did).  

I've been contacting World System about every 2 weeks and get the run around each time regarding delays in processing...etc.  One time I called and before I even mentioned the confirmation number the lady told me the refund would be in a couple of week. The last actual contact made was to someone named Rachel (3 weeks ago) who stated the transaction was scheduled for July 1st.  Called this morning because once again no transaction has been made and now their number is a voice recorded message.  I'm guessing my 29.95 is gone and never to be seen again.

Charge was on 3-17-13 and was told by them that a refund would be 5-15 days. NO refund has been received. I filled out the Internet fraud claim and have never heard from them either. Calling my CU to get my refund.

There maybe hope, I have been chasing them for almost a month and today the $29.95 was refunded/deposited in my account.

All these complaints have happened recently.  I think that these may be related to HR Block and tax refunds.

I was recently a victim on 3/22, but I'm just now seeing it bc it is from an account that we do not use that often.  I have reported to my bank, closed account and reported to police.  Everything is exactly as you all have said, $29.95, World Systems, for adult website subscription.  I hope they do refund my money.  This is scary.

Followup on my prev post called my bank put a watch on my acct, not to accept drafts. Bank said to give a week to see if money  was refunded. If not they would get it back their way.

Had the same thing happen to me just caught it on my statement.

Had this same thing happen to me.

Well,  I guess We older people are pretty stupid....in some eyes anyway...

Just to add to this - same thing happened to me ... same details as outlined throughout. My guess is that they are playing the odds (the victims will be those people who are too old or too busy to pay attention). If you send out thousands of fraudulent checks a fair percentage of people will not notice - and that's the profit. I think that this will turn out to be a fairly benign. Anyway ... I closed my account just in case.

The scary thing is that these people really only need a name, a bank account, a routing number, and a lack of decency to run this scam.

I was charged 29.95 by World Systems on 28th March. My Bank kept waiting for a refund although the check #  was fraudlent. The 1-800 number on the cheque gave me a a 3-5 business day time for refund and the 3-7 business day the following week and now they tell me 3-15 business days. I filed a report with by County Sherriff.The bank is not of much help. This is a scam .The 1-800 number is some company called Billing Solutions and not World Systems. and gives me a vague addredd in AUCKLAND NZ

I had the same issue! Except I spoke with Quan and Max same number, one was billing solutions, the other was Business Solutions. Phone number given for main office was 1-649-925-0414 Turks and Caicos Islands,and the IP used to place order was from Hawaii.

Happened to me (Imperial MO) on Apr 1 ... same thing; electronic draft off my checking - World System, 877-213-7808.  I googled to find these reports.  Found a Credit Union providing their customers info to NOT call the company ... file a police report and file a fraud report with your institution.  I CALLED MY BANK'S FRAUD DEPARTMENT .... USELESS.  I will go by my branch office tonight to file the fraud report AFTER I've gotten the police report and case number.

We just had this happen to us.  Was dated 3/29, and the bank caught it and stopped payment.
I did not call the number the bank provided after reading all these messages.   We will be filing
a complaint with the FBI or whomever.

We are in VA, it was my BF's account, and he does NOTHING online, except he did activate his paypal account earlier in March.  For Amazon, we have an amazon gift card we use, and he has recently been
perusing Ebay for items we are going to see at auctions.

Would be nice to find the common denominator here !

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Same story as everyone else, $29.95 charge, "check" with old account name and made up check number.  Called the phone# on the "check" and got the same narrative as everyone else.  Asked for the information poster M asked for.  Was told it was for a porn site but they said their company name was Billing Solutions and talked about World Systems as some other billing company.  They also provided a fictious email address associated with the purchase.  Anyway, I asked for a mailing address and got New Zealand.  This happened to us after a trip to Vegas.  I think it has to do with the fact that we bought the hotel's internet access for the week and while there I paid some bills online and checked my bank account online (yes, dumb, I know).  Also while we were there, my husband used an online tax service, Turbo Tax/Intuit, but he didn't file.  He suspects, however, that the account that got tapped is the one on file with the tax service.  Neither of us bought anything from amazon while there.  The woman I spoke with on the phone from Chase said that she has seen transactions with this company everyday and she has seen them refund the $29.95 but it came to her attention because of the many customer calls.

My taxes did NOT go to this checking account. So the only thin connected to this account is Amazon payments. I use it for Nothing else.

I received a charge just like most $29.95 from my CU checking account on 3-17-13. This account is ONLY connected to Amazon payments and that is it. I called the 1-877 that my CU gave me and the ID#. The girl there told me the same, from an adult site and to give her the ID#. I did and she said refund would be between 5-15 days also to report it ot my local police and FBI. I needed to leave my account open for the $$ to be returned to it, then close it. I will be closing it tomorrow and get the $$ back from the CU. I filled out a complaint on the FBI site. I have no CC associated with this CU, just the checking account attached to Amazon payments. I do believe my tax return went to here back in February and I did use Taxact as I do every year.

Hi there, After reading all of these posts I guess I am feeling quite lucky the way that all of it went down for us.We actually got a letter from our Bank telling us that there was a fraud alert for a check on our account. They said that the FBI is already alerted to the problem but has not yet found the person responsible. Our bank reversed the amount back to us before we had even noticed that it happened.
We could probably go round and round all day and not figure out the connection to each of us. It looks like it is through all of the US and not just one State.
Good luck to all of you and I hope each of you gets your refund.

I had the same thing happen yesterday.  I called my credit union first and they told me to call the police.  In the mean time I called the 877 number from a different phone just to mess with them.  I basically finished all of her sentences because I had read all about the scam here first.  The lady I talked to claimed she was in a call center in Illinois "who just processes refunds for lots of internet merchants".  She said the charge was for an adult website.  I then told her, "who pays for porn these days, then proceeded to tell her some free porn websites".  She wasn't amused.  She then gave me a confirmation number.  I then told her that the company she works for is bogus and she's a co-conspirator to a big fraud case the FTC is putting together.  I told her that this scam is all over the internet and she's picked a terrible career choice.

My bank account was charged without my knowledge - not even through a call from anyone!
This is clearly a fraud and needs to be reported to FBI - fill out a complaint form online on the FBI website - the only way to stop these ruthless fraudsters is to report this EVERY time
Report to FBI HERE: http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

Found echeck payment to World Systems. Called 877 #. Said I made online purchase for adult website. Excuse me???? ......Same as everyone else. Went to bank and they said the info these thieves used were old routing numbers that are being phased out. Some one is dropping the ball in protecting consumers financial records even if they are no longer used.

You can file a complaint with the FBI Cyber Crimes unit.  You can google FBI Cyber Crimes go to the page and there is an option to file a complaint.

I just noticed this $29.95 charge to my account and was made on 3/27/13.  And I am wondering how they got the information.  I was told it was for an adult site and they did tell me to contact my bank.  But what concerns me is that I recently used TaxAct to file taxes and of course refund came from the IRS so where is the breach?

Let's see......the above person must think I am an idiot!  Why should I click on some link provided by someone I do not  know from Adam on a website I am not sure of in the first place pertaining to some party who is stealing money from people?  

I had trusted a lot of people in the past. One person in particular is doing 30 years for fraud.

http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx try using this form to report these crooks

I also have paypal and have made several purchases on e-bay with it lately

I have directv mine happened march 21 11:15 am

I noticed a charge for $29.95 just this evening. Went to the ATM and withdrew everything. Will close my account Monday and go to another bank. I am changing all my passwords also. Will have cards reissued. Must report this to my bank too. We can't figure out how this happened except that my husband gave out some bank information to a rep. selling new insurance! He did this over the phone. I never give out any information SS number or any bank information over the phone. We live and learn. May these people get what is coming to them.*****

I too had a charge on my personal account callled the and ask for their physical location would not give it to me they said they had a web sight and would not give that to me either Call their selves "Globalone" did say their office is in Texas