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Grandma's Rip off and Scam Warning |
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Jean Mars - Physic, Astrologist,
Numerologist and Magi That's the title of his web-page. My title for him would be: Jean Mars - Con Man, Scammer and Bane of the Elderly and Vulnerable My mother received a letter from Jean Mars. I don't know the exact wording as I didn't see it, but it is a standard letter and somehow, he had her date of birth and he "used" the date of birth as the reason he had contacted her. He claimed the D.O.B. had "jumped out" at him so it was important that he contact her, etc., etc. If the letter is anything like his website it will be backed up by supposed testimonials from people who had won loads of money after he contacted them. See the claims made in the example below:
These were copied from his website on 16th May 2006, there is much more similar rubbish! Most people reading the letter would have already binned it, however the susceptible among us would maybe have read on, he later asks for your date and time of birth (hmmm didn't he already tell us he knew this?) and he would send you a personal reading for only £30. My Mother did just that, she fell for it, hook line and sinker. She had a stroke a number of years back and is now very innocent and trusting and believes everything she reads. Some time later she received a second (unasked for) reading. As, by this time nothing he had predicted had come about, Mum was quite upset and hand-wrote on the new reading that she was unhappy with the first and could she please have her money back as he had promised for people who were not satisfied with the first reading. She received instead, another reading! Money demands followed. Mum wrote back saying that she had requested her money back and had not requested more readings so should not have to pay for anything. Now, while all this was happening, none of us knew. Except that I had noticed a letter with a stamp on it and blank paper for the address, so had asked her about it, then removed it and placed it back in the envelope the right way round. When I did this I noticed what it was and that she had requested the return of her money and why. Anyway, the next letter sorted it all out. The next letter was a demand from a debt collection agency asking for £88.75! She asked my sister to write to them and sort it out. My sister did that. Another demand from the debt collection agency and she asked me to sort it out. I have searched the internet and found these pages:
I have also found out that his web domain is registered until 2013 and that although it is registered to Jean Mars the address is of an Internet company NETWORK SOLUTIONS LLC, administrative contact is listed as: REGISTRANT: ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT: Other things I have done:
Anyway - as far as I am concerned, this is just started! This page is the next step to let people know that this is happening. RESULT! When I contacted Trading Standards, they were very good. They wanted copies of all documentation that I had - so make sure you keep everything if you are in this position. They then wrote to Jean Mars and he sent my Mother a cheque to repay everything she had sent to him! 29 September 2006 I have heard of someone else who is getting letters from Jean Mars, he is operating in Canada too and the address that he is using is: Jean Mars, 9251-8 Yonge St. Suite 707 Richmond Hill Ontario. L4C 9T3 So beware if you start getting letters from this address. The person that contacted me told me that they always use the internet to research the names of the people who have sent this sort of letter. She put in Jean Mars+Scam and soon found out that she should ignore anything from this person. |
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