Travel Membership review: company cannot be located 49

Hi Guys

For those who got cheated by JC Hopkins, I manage to find out the director and shareholders name, Muhammad Ridzuwan Bin Roslan and Annie Sahlawaty Binte Mohd Salleh. Their contact detail is : +65 [protected].

Hi all

I was browsing through and read all the above. In 2010, a friend mf mine offered to let me stay as a guest at the Marriott in Phuket. I dont have to pay anything. All I have to do is pay for my flight money and attend an hour session with a sales representative there. So I went. I stayed at the junior suite. It was a nice place. On the second day I went for the "talk". Some ang mo tried to get me to buy the time share. He said I could stay in any Marriott worlwide once a year for free. He sounded very convincing but I am not ready to part with my $35 000 USD. That was the price. Anyway I told him no and enjoyed the rest of my holidays.
Theres a lot of scammers out there who are trying to rip you off but not all timeshares are bad. It works for my friend and she travel every year and got me a free stay. I think before you actually sign on the dotted lines, read what you are signing and know what you are about to get yourself into. If you are a holiday junkie, like my friend then timeshare may work for you. Marriott set up booths all over the island. They dont do it discreetly and so does holiday fovourites like club med. These are reputable bodies.
That goes the same for companies that does realty access. Not all of them are bad. Worldex is a pile of ###. Never do business with them. Bric Solution is a better option. After my trip I was contemplating whether to sign up with Marriott or to channel my cash in other ways. I decided on realty access as I dont have the time to travel likr my friend. I invest $11 000 in Bric Solution. What was promised and written in their contract was the investment is for a period of 2 years and gueranteed 5% profit. Two years has gone by and I recently collect my rewards. The full amount of $11 000 plus 5% profit which was what was promised to me. The profit is not great but I dont loose anything. No investors can promise you 100% profit or all bsnks will close down. Study about investing. Bric Solution is backed by the Barclays Bank which is quite a reputable bank. I cash out my 5% profit and top up and reinvest till the next two years.
The truth that everyone needs to know here is simple. Investment takes time and generate some profits but not to make you rich in a short period of time.

Most timeshare companies are taking advantage of people, often those who are more vulnerable and less able to resist hard sales tactics. I have heard of many cases where maintenance costs rise well above inflation. It would appear the timeshare companies lock people into contracts and then drive up their profits though increased maintenance charges. It would be good to see legislation whereby timeshare companies can only charge "reasonable" maintenance costs and not use this annual fee to fleece people's bank accounts:

http://www.timesharescam.com/blog/115-timeshare-companies/

I think it is necessary to eradicate these scammer and we should join force organise press conference and weed out all these terrorists victimizing the innocent public. The Government, maybe CAD, should also help out just like all other campaigns, fines, jail terms and levies imposed to put the nation in order. The time share scam are not new and happened just like dengue fever. Need to put a stop to it.

I have just been aproached by Collis Wong associates pte ltd who will help to terminate my membership with club emperor. Prior to this, I was approached by fine harvest and paid an amount of 17k which they claimed that it will b terminated and I wi be compensated with some money. Anyone has been aproached by this collis wong as they arw asking me to pay legal fee for the termination.

I signed up a contract with Emperor Travel last year and that I received call from them a few days ago to inform that their company was bought over by another company so they ask me to bring my contract to go meet them on 24 Jan 14.

I went to this company by the name of Allianz Capital Holdings (ACH) located at Shenton House.
I was served by the consultant first. But I could not understand what he was trying to explained, the manager came in to explained. They told me that they bought over Emperor Travel as their "name" was not good but they wanted their clientele base as they see our program as an asset. As my program is stated 10 years and that they told me usually a program can be renewed up to 25, 50 or 99 years.
He explained that they are the first company that does medical tourism and that our programs are very valuable as they can sell it to people who are from overseas that comes to Singapore to get medical treatment. And in time for the clients to rest while getting their treatment done here, with this program, the customers can save up more money on the hotel stays in Singapore. 

So ACH are willing to buy back this program from us. They will get their administrator to draw up a quote for us (if we confirm to sign the buy back) which means u have to pay upfront a fee that they claim that you will be able to claim back after 3-4 months but in their contract it states 6-12 months.

The manager draft out a plan for me to see.
Eg: They are looking at 25 years plan.. Less out what you have utilised for me it's a year, so they are buying 24 years of my program.
For a hotel room, one can pay up to $250 easily for each night, I do not know how he calculate the sum but it goes up to about $60, 000 that my balance program is worth.
They told me that there is of course a 10% commission which we have to give them as no one does things for free and they are helping us in this situation. But we only have to pay them the 10% after we got our $60, 000. It sounds too good because we can run away with the money after we receive the payment. Then they claim that they have the Warrant of Act and their contract to protect us.
But we have to pay upfront a 18% of the $60, 000 as offshore tax  to some trustee or don't know what company that helps us to do the transfer thing. Of which this 18% is a can be arranged for 36 months interest free installments with UOB. 
They calculated that u have to pay the installments upfront first by and by the 6-12 months after u finally receive the money, we can pay the bank the balanced installments at 1 shot.
PS: I saw in someone contract, the tax is only 5% and they mention that those are for the 50 years plans.

The manager also showed me proved of customers who signed up and paid up with the UOB receipts and trying to convince me about the program, I told him I need time to consider and he say ok and he left the room.
Then followed by their lawyer came in to tell me that he's the one who will help to go through the legal process and he left the room in awhile also.

The consultant try to pursue me and ask if there's anything that he can help, I told him I want to see the contract and quote before I agree to sign up the buy back program. He went to take the contract of one customer that was previously shown to me by the manager and while I was reading he ask some guy and in came their administrator and ask me if i'm confirm and able to give them an answer by today before he go get the quote. As they say by getting a quote they need to pay some fees to get the people to analyse how much our program actual CMV (current market value) so if I cannot confirm to give them answer that I'll sign the buy back program, they will not show me a quote. And he asked me if I am interested and if I have the money to pay I say no... HE STOOD UP IMMEDIATELY and walk away.

And after the administrator left, the consultant keep on snatching back the contract to keep and tell me that the admin personel are leaving so have to keep all documents.

After my talk at ACH, I have called a friend to enquire, and her sister, a lawyer advice me to go to CASE to report. 
And after which I start to google about ACH and I found links that claim it's a scam too. I'm glad that I didn't pay up more to get conned.

I do hope that my experience can help you all.
And please share if anyone have done any reports filing and the outcome.

To all victims or potential victims,

Allianz Capital Holdings is a 100% scam company. Even the offshore tax or offshore trustee company are total bogus. Pls google about this scam company and alert CAD...do not any monies to them...total scammers!

I've been contacted by ATC and saying that they are helping to do a refund of the membership that I've terminated with IRN many years back. ATC mentioned that the termination with IRN is not valid and only ATC have the right to terminate the membership. And they had asked me to go down to their office to explain in details. I agreed to meet them few days later but I dont think I will show up after seeing so many scam postings online. But how do I deal with them if they send lawyer letters to me?

Can we report a police case together? I keep receiving a call claiming they are Resorts Development Organisation (RDO), which has its Trustees Dept to repay me something as a follow up from Khoo & Krishnan. It's excruciatingly annoying...