Gold Coast reviews and complaints

I recevied a phone call from a Paul Smith ID # 30666 with a thick Indian accsent from a [protected] number stating that I just received a free $300 gas card. I asked him what is was for and how he received my information. He stated that he received is from Visa and Mastercard for useing my card. He stated that there was no catch so I let him go on asking him questions about his company. He stated his company was Gold Coast and it was based in Phoenix AZ. He said all he needed was for me to confirm my name and address. I gave it to him waiting for the catch. I was not requested to pay any money however he requested the expiration date of my credit card. I gave this to him them he requested that I get my card and give him the customer code that starts with a 4. I asked him how may numbers and he said 16...That is my credit card number! I told him no that he did not need my credit card number. He stated it was only for authorization and that without the 3 didgit number on the back my card could not be used. Excuse me I use my card all the time and rarley do I ever get a request for the 3 didgit number on the back at yet somehow thoes charges go through. I told him If I recieved it for fress. Send it to me in the mail but he was not getting my card number. He continued to insist I then told him to have a good day and hung up. He had the nerve to call me back and ask me to clam down and insisted that this was not a scam. I told him I dissagreed and hung up again...Please do not give your card number out to this company. You do not allways need the 3 didgit code on the back of yout card for a charge to go through. If this realy is aq free no catch gas card then my card number would not be needed.

I try canceling my memebership. Everytime I call the number is busy or I get a recording saying my wait time is seven min. and noone would come on. I wait a long time. They are taking 39.95 a month on my credit card. What can I do? I am so mad at them. I have no use for this.

I just had a similar experience... only not from "Gold Coast", but a company called "Big Deals" offering a $200 gas voucher. Indian accent. He insisted it was not a sales call. He said I had been specially chosen to be the "lucky" recipient of this gift because I'd used my Visa or Mastercard to make gas purchases in the past. He asked where I'd purchased gas before. He asked for the expiration date first, which seemed harmless enough, so I gave it to him. When I said I would not give him my credit card #, he got his "supervisor" on the phone who went into this increasingly desperate sounding rant about how a fraudulent charge couldn't be made without the 3-digit security code and they just needed to verify with the credit card company that I was the authorized user of the card. When I told him that wasn't true about the security code, he became rude in his approach, at which point I thought, "Why is this person so desperate to give me a free voucher?" After he refused to answer questions and continued to rant, I had to hang up to break free.

My mother in law just got scammed for hundreds of dollars by this gold coast...she is older and has just been widowed and they took her last dollar and over drafted her acoount...

This morning, I went through the same thing, even went as far as to give my credit card number. As I started to feel uneasy about the situation, I googled "Gold Coast free gas", and as soon as I saw the word "scam" I hung up the phone. I called custormer service of my credit card and had my acct # changed. Funny, as I was on my cell phone doing that, my home phone was ringing like crazy. They actually had the nerve to leave me 2 messages. The first one said that they had already charged my acct for the $3.90 and that I better answer to claim my free gas card. The second message said that I better pick up the phone or else my card would be charged and additional $50 "as a fine." What kind of riduculous thing is that?

Okay... so I don't know if I can say much about this subject cuz of my position. What I can say is that... all of you are right. It is a scam. It's sad. When you call to cancel... they are only authorized to give you 50% of the last deduction from your account. They'll try 3 rebuttals to persuade you to still go with the program and then...once you say no to that... you'll have to call coorporate. They'll give you the number and when you call... you'll wait for 20 minutes or so and then get hung up on. It's ridiculous and pathetic. I'm sorry to all who have to deal with this and that you got scammed into it without even knowing. When you do call to cancel... just realize your not calling the Gold Coast themselves. You're calling a Telemarketing Company with people who have no idea about this program and are only reading things verbatim because they're boss told them to. None of the reps agree with it and feel bad after every call. Unless you call coorporate and you actually get someone. If you call coorporate.. your dealing with the actual scammers.

I received a call from "Gold Coast" yesterday and decided today to look to see if it was a scam and found this site. I knew almost immediately yesterday that it was most likely a telephonic version of a phishing scam, so I kept the guy on the phone for like, 20 minutes. I enjoy teasing these little scammers, as the longer they're on the phone with me, the longer they're not bothering someone else.

The strongly Indian accented guy called himself "Frank" and told me that for being a good customer of Merchandising Partners, he wanted to send me a $300.00 gas card, usable at any gas station, and it would cost a mere $4.90 in shipping and processing. He wanted my CC. I told him I no longer had a CC, that I'd closed down my cards a few months ago. He insisted I was lying saying he knew I used my card with Merchandising Partners recently. I told him his information was out of date. He wasn't happy. But to keep him on the line, I told him I do have a JC Penny card, and a Sears one and a Mervyns one. He put the phone down and talked to someone else in the room, in Indian. They chatted for a minute, then he came back and said he would like the expiration number for any of those cards. I knew that any of those cards were useless except at the issuing stores, but he REALLY wanted to use one of those cards! I guess he hadn't heard of those cards before, and it pleased me a great deal, that I was able to pull the chain of a scammer live and in person, in real life. After a few minutes, he put me on with a supervisor, also Indian, who simply re-pitched to me the $300.00 gas card thing, and said this was a legitmiate offer. It was SO obvious this was a total scam! The other guy came back on the phone, and said he would send me to another extension, so I could do a "verbal authorization" for the $4.90, that would be taped. He said he can't bill the card without this taped verbal consent. Then he again asked me for an expiration date. Of course, department store cards don't have expiration dates, at least, not those. I kept the guy on the line for 20 minutes feigning confusion about where the expiration dates would be on any of these cards, and telling him I couldn't understand why I could not find them, and maybe if I go look at one of my written statements I could find an expiration, etc. He was getting really impatient. He asked again if my JC Penny card had a Visa or Mastercard logo and I said no, and he asked for a 20th time for me to get my Visa card, which I again told him I had recently cancelled. In sheer frustration and exasperation, he finally hung up. It was a successful call for me.

Why can't law enforcement put these [censored]es away? They all ought to be rotting in a jail cell somewhere. How difficult would it be to track the calls to their boiler room, telemarketing source, and arrest them all? This kind of BS should not be allowed to happen. Is there a place I can report this to an official law enforcement source?

Here's the company information the guy gave me. (He gave me this early in the call in an attempt to convince me of the legitimacy of his call):
Goldcoast
450 South West 12th Avenue
Deer Field Beach, FL, 33442.
I am sure the address is a total fake, but this is what they guy gave me.

I just got a call from the same Gold Coast company in Arizona like 5minutes ago. they said I won a $300 gas card as they keep track of my transaction with their credit cards and I have to pay $3.90 for shipping . This guy is with indian accent and told me his name is charlie and gave employee#10107. He keep insisting that this is a free offer, and I dont have to pay anything for that. I saw this complaints board and told him that i am not intereset but he tried to convince me by forwarding the call to his senior supervisor. I hung up the phone after that. Please do not entertain these kind of people and company.

try to call your credit card company and tell them what happen and ask them to check on this. That would be the best solution. I think just said you got through the call waiting, I dont think they would "allow" you to cancel. I got the same phone call from Gold Coast, and I was almost fool by them, but when they asked me for my credit card number, I realized that this was a scam.

Try to call you card company, they would give you the best solution. O and try to call the fraud department, thye take things very seriously.

Good luck on canceling!

Hebing ^^

I just got a phone call from this Gold Coast company in Arizona like 5minutes ago. I was mad because I was sleeping, so I gave them an atitude, but yes, they said I won a $300 gas card and I have to pay $3.90. This lasy with a heavy indian accent. I could barly understand her, and she said her name is "Kathy Smith" I was like yea right, a indian with a name Kathy Smith. and she gave e her empoly#40543. She keep insisting that this is a free offer, and I dont have to pay anything for that. So then she transfer me to her senior supervisor. so that guy said I need to be a credit card hold and I have to give them my last 15digit card number. duh..theres only 16 digit on the card. So I hung p, and he or that "Kathy Smith" called me serveral times after, but I didnt pick up because I could see the caller ID. Now they just stop.