20 May 08 Please email me your names and contact information
To all who post here. Please email me your names and contact information. I am going to do whatever it takes to do something about our situation. My email address is catlink[at]comcast[dot]net.
I will be forwarding the following email to all news stations in the hope that our story will be heard. Here is a copy of my email to the editor at MSNBC.
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To the editor.
My name is Gary XXXXX. I and several others are being frauded by an internet hosting company. We do not know who to turn to. I am including my story in this email as well as links to other’s stories at a website that has been started to let others share their story of the fraudulant activities of this web hosting company. Please visit the links I am providing below to see what we are going through. We are begging for help. We know they can be stopped. We just need to find the right outlet for help.
The name of the company who is commiting the fraud is “Global Internet Solutions” or GISOL. 807 N Gardner St Los Angeles CA. Their website is http://www.gisol.com
Here are links to some of the stories at our website where we are sharing our stories. My story is at the bottom of this email.
http://www.report-gisol.com/about/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/05/19/gisol-got-me-but-im-fighting-back/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/05/09/i-had-a-very-bad-experience-with-gisol/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/05/17/gisol-are-forging-documents/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/05/12/paypal-supported-me-100-after-my-dispute-with-gisol/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/05/07/gisol-is-trying-to-steal-107820-from-me/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/05/05/gisol-still-trying-to-dispute-charge/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/04/30/never-got-renewal-notice-until-6-month-after-end-of-contract/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/04/28/i-received-a-reply-from-the-dept-of-consumer-affairs-re-gisol/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/04/25/will-not-stop-until-money-returned-in-full/
http://www.report-gisol.com/2008/05/17/gisol-are-forging-documents/
Other stories not on our website.
Please scroll to bottom of this site for the most recent complaints.
http://www.raoulpop.com/2006/06/04/caveat-emptor-global-internet-solutions-gisol/
http://hostjury.com/reviews/GISOL
http://public.icann.org/node/684
http://www1.epinions.com/content_408041328260
http://www.besthostratings.com/web-hosting/reviews/global_internet_solutions-Reviews.html#hostreview5453
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/254/RipOff0254658.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/280/RipOff0280199.htm
http://www.aboutus.org/Report-GisOl.com
http://corporate.findlaw.com/scripts/corp_lc.pl?country=corporate&start=75&lang=&entry=gisol&sites=news
http://corporate.findlaw.com/scripts/corp_lc.pl?country=corporate&start=100&lang=&entry=gisol&sites=news
http://coloradoguy.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/be-aware-when-hosting-with-gisolcom/
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/gisolcom-c7607.html
http://www1.epinions.com/cmsw-ISP-All-gisol_com/display_~reviews
My Story…………………
By Gary XXXXX
I am another victim of this fraud company. Yes, $1789.20 is the majic number. I let my account with them run out. I had an account from the initial sign up which was actually a good deal for the first two years I was with them. I kept trying to contact them before the expire date because I wanted to upgrade to a better package. They never answered my emails. My wife was wanting her own website for her church which she is a decon of so I thought since they wouldn’t reply to me I would have my wife sign up for her own account under the new package they were offering. She signed up and signed the user agreement on the website at the end of the sign up.
A couple of days later someone from GISOL called me at about 9pm. They said because I had already had my own previous account that my wife was not able to sign upo for her own account for the better package they were offering. Then he started talking about how he could give ME a good deal which would be less than the price my wife was tring to sign up for after I received some sort of rebates. He kept beating around the bush as to how much I would be charged up front. I finally said, look, how much are you going to charge me to get this plan you are talking about started. He then said he had already charged me the amount which was $1789.20. I blew my top and said WHAT! I never authorized you to charge me anything of that nature. I asked him how he thought he could charge my account without my permission. I told him that if that was the case then to forget anything and that I am not going to do business with them and to cancel anything my wife had requested as well as anything to do with my accounts. He laughed in my face and said he had already charged mny account and hung up the phone on me.
Two days later my credit company contacted me about a possible fraud charge. The charge of $1789.20 that GISOL attempted to charge my account was picked up as a possible fraud charge and my card was frozen untill I verified it with my card company. I told them the story and let them know I was not authorizing GISOL to charge my card. They then denided the charge attempt.
Now this is what happened next. After I cleared up the fraud attempt with my card company they unblocked by card and placed it back into useable status. The next day I was happy about being able to block that charge and then I started thinking about it. I started thinking maybe they will try to charge my card again. I called the automated service of my card and found that was a charge of $1078.20. I called my card company and they said GISOL had charged my card again. AGAIN a charge without my permission and this time some different amount. My card company said they could not stop the charge because I had released the card for charges the day before. They said I would have to dispute the charge through papaerwork. I kept trying to talk to someone farther up the management and kept geeting passed from line to line and sometimes had gotten disconnected. I was on the phone with my card company for 4 1/2 hours only to be told to file a dispute.
I am right now in disput to remove the charge. I gave them the whole story with copies of the agreement that my wife signed on the website. They contacted me and said they had credited $807 back to my account. And that it was only temporary until they heard from GISOL. If GISOL didn’t respond in 90 days I would be OK. The amount was only the difference of the amount from the amount my wife had tried to sign up for. Mt card company did not understand that I was disputing the whole amnount. What idiots! I couldn’t have made it any clearer in all my documentation I sent to them. Now I was battaling both my card company and GISOL. About two weeks later my card company sent me a large packet of paperwork which was copies of paperwork that GISOL had sent them. I could not believe my eyes. They sent my card company a forged document which had my wifes signature at the bottom which appeared that she had signed an agreement to the $1078.20 charge. They had actually taken the signature from the online signed user agreement and copied and paste it to the document. What crooks these guys are. I returned my rebuttle to my card company with again copies of the signed online user agreement and a copy of the forged document from GISOL and circled both signatures with notes explaining that it was the same signature. The signatures are so easy to see they are the same that even a 1st grader could tell it was the same.
I again made it clear that I was not just disputing the difference of the amount but my exact words were I want to make it perfectly clear that I am disputing the entire amount of $1078.20. I am right now still waiting to hear from my card company regarding the matter. My card company happens to be Washington Mutual which has already has a fair amount of bad publicity in the news lately.
Anyway. I think we should all get together and contact MSNBC, 60 minutes, 48hrs or whoever to get GISOL taken out of business. If anyone would be willing to go throught this with me please let me know. Thanks for reading and good luck to all!
Gary XXXXX
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To the editor.
If you are willing to help us I will provide you with a list of contact information of everyone to help you in promoting our story. Please help us. If this is not the proper email to address our story to please see that this email gets forward to who may be able to help us. I’m sure there are others that are also getting scammed by these people.
Thank you very much for reading and thank you very much for any help.
Gary XXXXXX
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Well done Gary.
I’m sure people will help you. If you’re contacted by any TV guys, please send me the details and I’ll contact all the contributors of this website to either email you, or contact them direct.
I wish I had time to do it as well, but this website and my others are keeping me too busy. I hope I’m contributing enough with this website.
Mike,
Thank you for the service of this website. I will continue to do whatever I can to help us get the proper recognition our stories deserve and will keep you updated as things progress. Thanks again.
Gary
I have the names of three attorneys in the LA area that are personally recommended, as well as friends and family willing to do some leg work. Everyone, PLEASE give your contact info to Mike and/or Gary so that it can be collected in one place. If one of these lawyers agrees to take on our case, they will probably be more likely to do so with a nice easy client list as opposed to them having to track each person down.
Also — it seems to me that Gisol rips off people who don’t live near their “office.” Are any of the victims from the L.A. area? I’m happy to keep doing this long distance (from NYC) as much as I can, but someone local would probably be even better as a point person.
Please use the contact form to send me your details.
Please send me: Name, address, amount charged and whether or not you have claimed the money back.
Many thanks Brenda.
Add me to the list of people who have been swindled by gisol. Right now my credit card company has gone back and forth a couple of times crediting the amount I dispued, and then adding it back on when GISOL sends them their “documentation” (complete with forgeries) and then I respond and the charge is crdeted back to me. There is a second amount on another card that GISOL claims they are assigning to a collection agency. Technically I haven’t lost a cent yet, but it is all very time-consuming nd very worrisome.