ARLINGTON, VA (January 27, 2012) — Timeshare owners across the country are being scammed out of millions of dollars by unscrupulous companies that promise to sell or rent the unsuspecting victims’ timeshares. In the typical scam, timeshare owners receive unexpected or uninvited telephone calls or e-mails from criminals posing as sales representatives for a timeshare [...]

TALLAHASSEE, FL (January 16, 2012) ––Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Jennifer Kirk was sentenced January 9 to 188 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit fraud and wire fraud. Kirk, now a resident of Illinois, was operating a timeshare resale scam that stole $30 million from more than 22,000 victims across the country. [...]

MIAMI, FL (October 11, 2011) — Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gilles, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Frank Adderley, Chief, Fort Lauderdale Police Department, announced Oct. 6 the filing of an information charging defendants Scott Faraguna, 41, Charles Blomquist, [...]

TUCSON, AZ (October 7, 2011) — Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning timeshare owners not to do business with U.S. Financial Trust of America- a company claiming a fictitious Tucson address- which is scamming timeshare owners across the country.
BBB has received three complaints alleging that US Financial Trust contacted them via telephone, claiming [...]

TALLAHASSEE, FL (October 6, 2011) ––Attorney General Pam Bondi on Oct. 4 joined Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner (R-Orlando) and Representative Eric Eisnaugle (R-Orlando) to unveil a legislative initiative that will [...]

Telemarketers Falsely Claimed They Had Buyers Lined Up, Agency Alleges
ORLANDO, FL (July 20, 2011) — At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has temporarily halted a telemarketing operation that targeted consumers trying to sell their timeshare properties. The defendants allegedly charged consumers thousands of dollars, falsely claiming they had buyers lined up for [...]

TALLAHASSEE, FL (Sept. 24, 2010) – Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson and Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced yesterday that a major statewide crackdown on telemarketing operations that peddle timeshare units has resulted in 4 arrests, 137 cease-and-desist orders and about $125,000 in fines.
The week-long sweep, in which Bronson’s department partnered [...]

July 24, 2010: DEAD SKUNK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AWARD: Timeshare resale fraud. Does it never end? Apparently not, if recent headlines from all over the country are any indication. This has been a problem for years, but with the current economic conditions impelling a swelling (nice alliteration, yeah?) of the ranks of timeshare owners who want/need to sell, the skunks have come out in full force to stink the place up. Read More…

BEND, OR (July 23, 2010) — Better Business Bureau is receiving inquiries and complaints about a company that offers to connect timeshare owners to renters and buyers, but has left several clients questioning the company’s legitimacy.
Complaints allege consumers paid between $1,000 and $4,000 to VP Coast Properties; also going by Coast to Coast Timeshare and [...]

~ Three lawsuits filed; four new subpoenas issued ~
TALLAHASSEE, FL (July 21, 2010) — Attorney General Bill McCollum yesterday announced that his office has filed lawsuits against three Florida companies, alleging the companies and their owners used deceptive and unfair practices that enticed consumers to spend hundreds of dollars to advertise their timeshares for resale [...]