How To Stop the ExploreTalent.com Scam
IF YOU HAVE BEEN A VICTIM OF EXPLORETALENT.COM MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS BELOW SO WE CAN STOP THIS SCAM. REPORTING THIS AS A DISPUTE TO YOUR CREDIT CARD COMPANY WILL GET YOUR MONEY BACK AND HELP STOP THEM, MAKE SURE TO CALL YOUR CREDIT CARD COMPANY IMMEDIATELY OR YOU WILL KEEP GETTING CHARGED AND DISPUTE YOUR PREVIOUS CHARGES AS THIS IS A SCAM AND YOU WILL GET ALL THE MONEY YOU PAID BACK!
1. Report Exploretalent.com to the BBB:
http://www.la.bbb.org/BusinessReport.aspx?CompanyID=13204121
2. Report exploretalent.com to RipOffReport.com
http://www.ripoffreport.com/login.asp
3. Call your credit card company and do a charge-back
If you have been a victim of this scam it is very important that you call your credit card company and file a dispute or charge back, if enough people do this we can get them shut down for good. Also you should give them a link to my blog which has more than enough evidence so they will give you your money back.
4. Report them to google because what they are doing is illegal they are creating fake sites so they show up first in the search results but they are all the same company which is against Google’s terms of service, if enough people complain they will be banned from google and will not be able to scam all these people. You can call them and also write a letter including the allegations at the bottom of this page to:
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001
Hi, do you have an email address where I can speak to you directly.
I have a few questions I would like to ask, pertaining to this scam.
I want to know if I still have a chance to receive my money back from late last year.
Being that they refused a refund, I have to find out how to go about solving this, and receiving my money back.
Thanks!
Cinnamon…did you get any response and did you get your questions answered? I had a few questions too.
My 17 year old daughter and her best friend fell victims to these internet sewer rats. My daughter goes to school full-time and works part-time as a clerk in a department store to support her modeling and acting dreams. She does volunteer work at an animal shelter on the weekends reads to the elderly twice a week. The funds illegally extracted from her bank account amounted to almost a week’s salary. When she tried call she got the proverbial runaround and eventually was hung up on. “Like taking candy from a baby”, huh guys? Bet you got a nice yuk out of that one. It is not only the money but also the gross violation of a kid’s sense of trust and decency. These are predators that will rape the dreams of young hopeful talent. The only thing lower is a pedophile. They steal call sheets from other sources, list outdated casting calls, or just post their own phony auditions that they write up themselves.
Explore Talent.com is by far the sleaziest and most disgusting talent scams operating on the internet. They lie, they cheat , and are constantly breaking the law by double and triple invoicing members. It is just a matter of time before the authorities catch up with them
Being a journalist it didn’t take much digging to find out who these insects are. The company is owned by Ami Shafrir, an ex pimp and porno broker. He keeps Exploitation-Talent in the name of one of his employees we found out. The coward hides behind other people because there are so many judgments against him. They are located at 4312 Woodman Avenue Suite 301 in Sherman Oaks, California. One of the major network news shows has them under investigation along with other intrnet modeling scams.
Mr. Shafrir owns hundreds of websites between here and China all steering traffic toward Explore Talent.com. This, by the way, is against the policies of Youtube. They have been branding and posting phony endorsements by celebrities. I was told by a someone who attended one of these events that these Celebs had no idea they were endorsing a commercial. These clever thieves used the “old bait and switch.” The unknowing celebrities were smooth-talked by a sweet hostess “can you give a little advice to our young members out there?” Then asked to give “a shout-out” to Explore Talent. Essentially getting them to say the name of the company. The clips were then cut to make it look like an endorsement. I will personally send this blog link to each and everyone of those celebrity’s managers, agents and publicists. Some of who I work with on a regular basis.
THE SALES PITCH IS A LIE FROM BEGINNING TO END. If someone calls you hang-up the phone before they can even get out the word talent!! THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A BOILER ROOM filled with desperate young sales people trying to get money out of your pocket.
http://www.exploretalent.com/model_page.php?talentnum=661702
Even their own employees are not safe from their vicious tactics They make agreements then decide to “change the terms after the job is done” , I was told by a young model-actress . They indiscriminately steal clips from other websites and upload them to their own. Are you listening Youtube?
Shame on you Explore Talent . Something must be done! Folks, these people are nothing but lowlife cowards hiding behind aliases and lies. These are ruthless cyber -scorpions ripping off easy prey, the young and the vulnerable. I’m not done with you Explore-Talent.com THAT IS A PROMISE I INTEND TO KEEP!!!
Explore talent has the worst costumer service. End of story.