First Data Corporation

Scammer set up a Merchant services account at ****** *** for running point of sale transactions on debit cards under our businesses name. According to the loss prevention personnel there was 17000.00 taken from other victims fraudulently under our business name and sent to a bank account that belongs to the scammer. There was also another account that was attempted to be opened at First Data Merchant Services and this was denied. There has been a police report filed at our local police department in Lynchburg, VA. [BBB Scam Type: Identity Theft] [Business: Central VA Flooring LLC Imposter Dat] [Location: VA, USA - 24502]

My company was mailed 2 Clover Flex payment processers that we did not order. Upon reseaching this, it seems it is a common scam. We did not turn them on or set them up. [BBB Scam Type: Other] [Business: First Data Hardware Services Date Re] [Location: MI, USA - 49435]

The scammer used my Linked In profile to first contact me through text messages and then pivoted to WhatsApp. They claim to work for the company "C2" which specializes in music promotion, and after that introduction, the conversation starts by asking how old I am and attempting to sound personable by asking what my current occupation is. All the while, it appears like my messages are being fed to an AI to reply with bland and innocent-sounding corporate responses. The scammers were patient and willing to wait days before I made time for them to acclimate me to their fake job portal where I needed to create an account which required a username, an email account, a password, and a withdrawal password for "commissions" on data submitted. I have attached a screenshot of what the data submission page looks like. They claim their company has a business license and is accredited by the Commerce Bureau which may be true if C2 is a legitimate company they are pretending to be. The work involves merely clicking the submission button 42 times per data set of music which we have to do only twice a day. Depending if the data is an album or single, a greater commission can be earned. The recruiter claimed "you will receive $1050 on the fifth day, $2100 on the fifteenth day, and $3150 on the thirtieth day" for a monthly sum of $6300 not including commissions. Furthermore, you will receive a "training" bonus of $60 - $100 for creating an account and completing your first data set. The scammer claimed that all data submitted improves the rankings of the songs they promote on Spotify. I ended the conversation by asking a ridiculous question like how to bake banana bread which only confirmed my suspicions that my questions were being fed to an AI because of its detailed response based on information I made up about the baking process. I do not know what further steps a [BBB Scam Type: Employment] [Business: Unknown] [Location: NY, USA - 11368]

The scammer said that our company was over-billed for credit card processing. The scammer wanted our company to send a copy of our merchant services statement to show we did not receive the credit we were due. We at our company stopped contact at that point, as I did a search and found that the email was a known scammer's email. [BBB Scam Type: Bank/Credit Card Company Imposter] [Business: First Data] [Location: CA, USA - 95065]

I was approached by this company to do the POS systems with them then I was charged an extra 3.5% on top of whatever they charged we couldn't end the contract and then we only had issues with them. They took over $1500 in over charges then they order equipment. We don't need the leased equipment in our name from Clover they also provided us POS systems that they were new. They also try to scam us again with percentage equipment we wanted to buy or we paid deposit for and we're never delivered only after which is not to work with them anymore also they sent us the collections several times for money we didn't owe them. They also deliberately stopped making payments for equipment. We weren't aware they are Leased, and that drive us to another set of collections they also did different sets merchant ID and we got no signed contract for the first part of whatever they did so I'm pretty sure that's illegal also switching merchant ID we wanted a KDS over two months ago and they send it one day after we stop working with them. Also, whatever equipment we got the clover mini three the station duo. It was all in open boxes no foil no nothing to prove that equipment was new basically was used equipment probably used on scam someone else probably that's why we had different merchant ID too. Also mini three was sent back to them in the station duo with the KDS. It's being sent to first data as we agreed to them. [BBB Scam Type: Worthless Problem-solving Service] [Business: Sunergy Payment Solutions Date Repor] [Location: AZ, USA - 85083]