Mr. Berkley was another scammer
Today I received a phone call from an "assistant" of Mr. Michael Berkley. Before I get into that, let me just tell you that I made a mistake.
I recently bought my domain name from godaddy.com but this is not my first time buying a domain name. I didn't purchase the privacy option this time for my domain name. That's when Mr. Berkley decided to take advantage of me, thinking I was easy bait.
Back to the scam
The caller asked for me by name, what my profession was, how long I have been trying to run a business online, and how much I've spent to do that so far.
I answered but kept everything as general as possible.
She then wanted to set up an appointment with me and Michael on 5/9/14 so that he can start showing me what I needed to do and that this was a free service to me since I already paid through Wealthy Affiliate. She said that this was completely free to me and that Wealthy Affiliate assigned Michael to me. (I never read anywhere on Wealthy Affiliate from Kyle or Carson or the community about this type of "incentive") FISHY, STRIKE NUMBER ONE
I asked her how did they get my contact info and she said since Michael is an Affiliate who works with Wealthy Affiliate, that's how they were able to contact me and she repeated the same things about Michael being assigned to me to build a successful business. (I never gave out that kind of info on Wealthy Affiliate) STRIKE NUMBER TWO
You may be wondering why I'm still talking to her?
I wanted to find out more info. I was already onto them, but I had to get some info out of her.
I asked what was the name of their company. She said this is for Michael Berkley. I told her that I understand but what is the company's name. She said it is just Michael Berkley. I asked her if the company name is Michael Berkley and that he named the company after himself. She said yes and I am just setting appointments, I don't know anything about those types of questions. BIG STRIKE NUMBER THREE
So she asked what time I would be available and we ended the call.
Immediately, I researched this Mr. Berkley. I posted a question to Kyle, Carson, and the community whether anyone knew him.
There was also something else....I listened to the background and it sounded like a call center..or a telemarketing office, that's another reason I double checked. Sometimes they hand out scripts to people who have never done this before, so I wanted to be sure.
The community came through and called it as it is: SCAM
Kyle got back and said it was ABSOLUTELY A SCAM and advised me to write about it.
Thanks for having my back...sometimes I get tired of watching it and I didn't remember godaddy till Kyle reminded me. He did say my domain would be ok never the less...but Mr. Berkley and his like are out like hungry wolves that haven't eating for days.
I guess this was just another one to add to the list of crooks.
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I talked to Kyle the other day about this. When you set up your domain anyone and their brother can pull your info if you do not set it to private as you mentioned in the beginning of your post.
If anyone ever calls you claiming to be from WA IT IS A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WA does not have your phone number. Remember that folks. It is someone just trying to rip you off. Here is the link Kyle asked me to share if anyone ran across this. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/kyle/blog/global-educators-inc-is-a-poaching-scam
The name of the company may be different but its the same scam.
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I just had a call from Michael Berkley's assistant and I think they have contacted me before. They were selling Cambogia tablets and asking me to JV with them. I could pay $5000 to an ad agency, bank cheque only, and make oodles of money in a mater of weeks. I decided it was too risky sending money I could never expect to recover.
It's not just risky it's not realistic. While on the phone I knew they just wanted my money. By the way, they never called me. She knew I was not falling for it.