Junfei S.
I Believe It's a Scam
I saw this organization ad on Instagram. Thought to apply just to see. They called me this morning, asked some questions which sound not super suspicious. But when I asked them the membership fee they tried not to answer until I have answered their cover up questions.Then they said the lifetime membership is $299 and I have to pay RIGHT NOW. I smell the scam from this urgency for payment, so I said I don't have the card right now, could she give me more time I will get back to her? Usually this is a very reasonable response, no one should be mad about a later payment since it's not committed in any ways. But the woman on the other side sounded depressed and kept trying to ask me to pay right away and did mention the $50 discount if I used MasterCard. I think any official organization should have the professionalism to offer other payment options, like an invoice or online form. But this one didn't offer any of that. When she heard me without a card now, she seemed a bit angry and asked me to go to my laptop and she will teach me how to make a payment through an email which she will send to me. This is even more suspicious! I said I'm outside in a park, don't have my card nor a computer! Then she seemed given up and said will email me later. But it's been 2 hours now I received nothing. My experience is try to figure out the mood of the person talking, a scam usually don't have the professionalism or patience to listen to you talking too much and try to confuse them.




