Hi guys I purchased this package in 2009 and because my son is disabled, we were told we could delay it 3 years til he was fit.  I received my vouchers at the time and was just trying tonight to get a hold of the company to book.  My credit card has never been deducted any more money but now I am terrified they are going to demand more money for a holiday that does not exist.  Should I try to report them to someone before it gets any worse or just cut my losses and let it be. And if so could someone post an email or something to speak to.
Thanks to all of you for your warnings.

Received my 2nd phone call from this number tonight!  The first call the man yelled at me telling me to pay for a vacation from 4 years ago, or he would sue me. Tonight it was a woman who called, and said to pay $400 for a vacation that I failed take or I would go to collections. I asked for the company "First Class Travel" aka "SunBiz" to send me documentation for what I supposedly signed on by mail, they refused. Instead they gave me their website  Firstclasstravelwise.com and expected me to believe they were a legitimate business because of it. I'm going to report them.

Received a HIGH PRESSURE call to pay the remainder of my vacatiob bill from 4 years ago...they stated where i stayed and for how long insisting I had a bablance due.  This is proposterous.  I told them to send me something in writing and they kept arguing with me.  VERY BAD PRANK CALL!  Please handle them!

All the same happened to me and I paid the darn $433!!  I then did more research and realized it was a scam and contacted various agencies.  Well, to my surprise, about 4 months ago I was contacted by someone from Florida State Consumer Affairs responding to my complaint and they are pursuing charges.  (Yes, I did my research about this response to make sure it was real.)  I had spoken to this same person about 1 1/2 years ago when I made my first complaint.  He was asking for all the information I had about FCTW and all the corresondence I had with them (emails, phone call, etc) So I mailed them all the info I had.  I hope he is really going after these people.  Write down and keep all the info you have on these people.   This looks like it has slowed down since it first happened to me, so hopefully they will get caught and put in jail for threats and illegal practices.  Good luck!

Nov. 2010 There appear to be similarities with a Scam scams operating in New Zealand.  Received a phone call from a male with an Indian accent claiming to be from Travel wise Holidays, offering vouchers for two weeks holiday throughout Australia for two people for 2 weeks, for a payment of $NZ100. 18 months to use the vouchers. After telling him that I believed it was a scam and he emphaticly tried to tell me it wasn't, I told him I was not interested. He asked if there was any reason why I was not interested..... my reply to which he seemed rather speechless: BECAUSE I HAVE NO INTEREST.

received a call from "Michael Greene" today (private name private number) saying he was with some gov't agency working on behalf of consumers and that he was required legally to let us know that on last Monday, First Class Travel Wise filed criminal and civil charges against my husband and myself for taking some vacation voucher and never paying for it....I asked for his number and who he was with again.  (We're all too familiar with this company)...he tried to give me an 800 number and I told him that we are very familiar with his company's tactics and their rating with the BBB and he hung up on me ....when will these guys ever be STOPPED?????  We have filed complaints thru several consumer agencies in Florida, as I know many people have, but it seems to be doing absolutely nothing.  I don't understand how these people are STILL scamming and getting away with it.

Also beware that they will claim to be calling from a government agency and the case was given to them to resolve before it is turned over to their lawyers, the collection agencies and then to all three credit company monitors, ie Experion ect.

unfortunatley i fear i too have been a victim of this so called holiday company offering a fantastic package over the phone..  i purchased a package and paid 628 english pounds for it , being told i had 18 months to take this holiday, my husband rang them up on the same numbers you have quoted and spoke to the "manager" a michael greene, i think there are at least 4 michaels that work there and again the surname greene pops up?. this manager insisted my husband had to pay a ridiculous price of 2,000 dollars before we were going on  holiday  we hadnt read our small print, he also spoke of legal action towards us,  so after reading all these complaints about this company i have that horrible sinking feeling that we have been scammed also.. the two other michaels i spoke to  one with the surname mann, and the other richardson.. told me i didnt have to take the cruise , that i could tailor my holiday as i wished  as long as we visited fort lauderdale where the timeshare talk was taking place. they made it sound so easy and welcoming, absolute bull!! i received an email yesterday from them asking me to contact them asap  after they spoke to my husband saying there was a problem with my account and it needed to be resoved as soon as possible,  i phoned them after the email twice, and emailed them my number  but have heard nothing and i could nt get thru to them in usa so left a voicemail. still waiting,so obviously doesnt seem so urgent.. feeling very sick and angry with myself at the moment. for falling for this scam.. for gods sake if anyone gets a call offering you a holiday that seems too good to be true,  it is!!..

In Sept of 2008, we purchased a vacation package deal and prepaid for the package. The terms of the agreement are that we must take the trip or extend the package within 18 months. We received a call tonight from a representative who identified themselves as a legal office calling on fraudulent accounts and that we must pay another 600+ dollars since we did not take our trip or extend our package within 12 months. Making a very long story short, I asked them to point me to the place in the contract where it stated that we only had 12 months. He tried a few times to direct me to the spot, and then made the comment that they have several different versions, but insited that we were fraudulent. I then read our agreement to him so he could understand what exactly it is that we bought. Nowhere in that document that I read to him did it support what they were saying to us, but still insisted that we were fraudulent.

I tried calling the numbers back that they called us from, but of course they did not answer as a business on one of them, and the other was a generic voicemail.

386-438-9087
229-380-8997

I had a situation almost identical to k's, but not the part about $238.  I was told a year ago my vacations had 18 months to be used, and then indefinitely extended, but they called today to say the package expired last week.  Fishy as hell.  I was asked to pay $650 to extend it forever, and then a month after I take the vacation, I'd receive that fee back in 3 installments.  For the record, I just want to state "What the hell?" and "Why?"  Very unfair practices go on through them.

We got a call from this co back in aug of last year. My husband was talked into sending them $238. They sent a package. The terms and conditions were that we had 18 mo to take a trip and this could be extended as many times as we wanted to. It has not even been a year and we got a called on a holiday demanding that we pay them another $650. It will be a cold day in hell before they get anything else from us. Thank God we don't still have the same debit card. We were really worried that this could ruin our credit which is good standing. Now, I know it's a scam.

I had this call last year but i  paid the 417.88  i know just brain dead!I GOT A CALL ON 6/15/AT 10.00 PM SAID I NOW MUST PAID 600.00 BECAUSE I HAD NOT TAKEN VACT; AND WOULD BE TURN OVER TO COLLECTIONS; I WILL CALL BBB TO REPORT THIS HOPE THIS WILL  HELP SOMEONE;

The 216-272-4533 is for a Howard Greene.  Could be related.  Maybe not.  Don't know.

chris greene is the master scammer for some reason everybody sounds like him they did this to me too and i found out there information, i have a freind in the fbi that owed me a favor. lets call him and bother them  Chris Greene cell phone 561-929-9223 and other numbers to reach him 561-395-7249, 561-926-3313, 216-272-4533 and his home address is 21950 Soundview Ter. apt#101 Boca Raton, FL 33433 whenever your in fl stop by and pay him a visit.

Same call threatened to send me to collections.  told them to play in traffic.

Firstclasstravelwise.com

I recieved the same call as jb. about a past due bal on a Vacation Package. Threats to sue if I did not pay them $400.00 for each person.  I asked them to send me supporting documents....they refused     BIG SCAM!!!

just got the same call from some "time share" travel agency and threatening to report me to collections if i didn't pay them $400 to settle my account with them after not going through with a time share tour after staying at a hotel in vegas. total BS.  BEWARE OF ANY ONE CALLING FROM THIS NUMBER!  IT'S A TOTAL SCAM!

got the same threatening call and they also refused to mail me anything to prove i agreed and they also threatened to sue me

Don?t pay anything to this company. They are frauds and they are no longer in business as of 9-25-2009 .
http://sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?action=D ... mes_filing_type=

Dr. Christopher Greene is the head of this scam and the artist.  I just wish a lawyer in Florida would start a class action suit against him and Monica his wife.

Contact Division of Consumer Services 850-488-2221 or file a complaint at http://www.800helpfla.com/travel_text.html

All the same:  1-229-380-3974, 1-888-210-2221, 1-877-429-9990, 1-386-438-9087, 1-702-421-7510, 1-972-220-8594

Names:  Eric Goldstein, Randall Duarte, Steve Cox, Joshua Mills, Michael Guerra, Michael Anderson, Stephanie Partin

All these numbers are used by the same scam.  Note, the price you "have to pay" goes up over the years.  Don't give them any info, definitely don't give them your credit card number, hang up on them whenever you want.  They can't hurt your credit, or sue you, or anything else they threaten.

This entry said it all:

Michael - 30 Oct 2009
(replying to Kate - 5 Oct 2009's entry right above it)

This Mr. Tomas from Leisure Time Worldwide, which is the same company First Class Travel Wise also known FCTW.  They say they will send your account to collections, but they can't.  They do not have proof to do any of these actions.  People need to be warned.  They have over 25,000 different names and numbers to call.  They have all your info like your address, credit card number, and name!!  But do not believe them; they are lying to you.  There is no Micheal Anderson; that is not the director's name; he lies to all of you.  He uses the names Michael Anderson, Michael Mann, and many more, but those are his main names.  The company is based out of Georgia but they really operate in Lake City, Florida.  We do use Georgia numbers 229-380-8974.  It's a Magic Jack phone plugged in to a computer that works off the internet; so it has there a Georgia number so they can say there in Georgia.  The 1-888-210-2221 toll free number is forwarded to a phone registered in Lake City, Fl and it sometimes is forwarded to a cell phone.  Used to be my cell phone but not any more.  For anybody I have spoken to in the past I do apologize.  But people -- do not accept the resolution they are offering.  I can not reveal much more information than this to protect myself from a lawsuit.  But do hang up on them.  If you did resolve, then do what you have to to fix your error in judgment.  I do again apologize; I no longer work for this company.

It's the same scammers, changing the details, trying to pull it off on new victims.  Hope you didn't pay them, if so, call your credit card company back immediately.  I have yet to hear of anyone that has received their money back. Report them to the BBB and Fl.  Check the site:   http://www.consumersteam.com/ for ideas and where to report them.  These crooks have to be stopped!

I got a similar call today at my work number.  They said it was Executive Travel contacting me because I supposively had agreed on some terms back in a 2002 on a Las Vegas Trip I had booked online; that I had agreed on completing a tour for EHolidays Timeshare within 48 months & it was never done so that I owed them $459 & if I didn't pay them I would end up in collections.  If I did pay them now & took the tour; that they would refund me my money after the tour was done.  What the heck is going on here?

Credit card company took care of this.  No billing charges against me and have not heard from them in months.

I changed my website about this company to www.consumersteam.com.

www.stopscams.info

Abosolutely nothing has happened to us, and we received our phone call in November.  We have, however continued to monitor our credit history.  This "company" depends on threats to scare you into paying them.  They have no contract with you, so they have no proof to bring to court to show your "debt".  PLEASE follow thru with complaints to the Better Business Bureau, the Division of Consumer Affairs in FL  (http://www.800helpfla.com/complnt.html),also the FL Attorney General's Office.  We as victims, need to work together so our complaints will shut First Class Travel(or whatever they happen to call themselves at the particular time) down.

Two new names Executive Consultants and Executive Travel/Leisure Travel What phone numbers were they using?????????? This way no one can find them to complain about them..

They have threatened to take me to COURT, RUIN MY CREDIT RECORD, SUE ME FOR FRAUD etc etc and they have had many months to do it but NOTHING!!!
they are scammers...
www.stopscams.info

I also have received a call two nights ago about this!  They claimed that in 2003, I stayed at a hotel in Las Vegas and did not complete a timeshare presentation.  I did go to Las Vegas in 2003, but it was with 2 small children for one night, and the hotel was very expensive (no deal here!) but I had chosen it because it had a mini-fridge. There was NO timeshare deal.  I am absolutely certain of that!  The guy on the phone wanted us to pay $459. He wanted us to pay immediately, and said that as soon as he hung up the phone, we would be reported to a collections agency and their company's lawyers would bring a lawsuit against us which would destroy our credit rating. The lawyer's name is Michael Guerra of Coral Springs, FL.  (We asked.)

I see many people here who have been contacted by this same scam.  (Executive Travel, on behalf of Leisure Time. I believe they also go by other names.)  But I'd like to hear about what is happening after you have refused to pay to this scam.  Can they do anything?  Has anything happened?  Please share!  Thank you!

http://wiki.stopscams.info/index.php?title=First_Class_Travel_Wise

Keep calling the BBB and the other places

Hooray, It?s working, the BBB is finally wise to these guys and posted the following today! on their BBB site, I guess Chris Greene and his buddies are going to have to threaten to sue the BBB now, they have threatened everybody else.

First Class Travel Wise
8227 W. Atlantic Blvd.
Pompano Beach , FL 33071
Phone: (972) 220-8594
http://www.firstclasstravelwise.com
Contact: Brian Schaeffer - Manager
Business Start Date: N/A
Company ID: 92012243

Complaint Experience
The Bureau has been contacted by consumers who allege this company is contacting them requesting payment of $400.00 for failure to fulfill a travel agreement several years earlier. Consumers allege they do not owe this balance as they never agreed to or signed any contract regarding these terms. The company responds to complaints with an explanation of the terms of their agreement but has failed to produce any signed contracts. The company states by using the travel offer, they are agreeing to these terms.
Company

D Rating Our opinion of what this rating means:
We have enough concerns about this company (for example, their offer, customer complaints, advertising, etc.) that we recommend caution in doing business with it.

First Class Cruise Vacations, Inc.
21950 Soundview Terrace, #101
Boca Raton, FL 33433
Phone: (561) 395-7249
Fax: (954) 530-6248
Contact: Christopher Greene - President
Business Start Date: 2/1/2003
Company ID: 9002124

Our file contains a pattern of complaints from consumers who allege this company is contacting them requesting payment of $433.38 for failure to fulfill a travel agreement made several years earlier. Consumers allege they do not owe this balance as they never agreed to or signed any contract regarding these terms. The company responds to complaints with an explanation of the terms of their agreement but has failed to produce any signed contracts. The company states by using the travel offer, they are agreeing to these terms.

D Rating Our opinion of what this rating means:
We have enough concerns about this company (for example, their offer, customer complaints, advertising, etc.) that we recommend caution in doing business with it.

main linked number seems to be 877 948 8900