AF Truck Center in Northlake, IL ---- WARNING!!!

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  1. txtodd

    txtodd Light Load Member

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    WARNING!!!! SCAM ALERT!!!!! I went there to park on 6/1/17. When I left 8 hours later, I gave the attendant my debit card for the $20 fee. He swiped the card & handed back, looked at the screen, and asked for the card back. It's the new-type card with a chip, so I assumed it didn't work when he "swiped" it. Days later I see online that I was charged twice. Simple mistake, I figured, and called the manager - ANJAM AZIZ. He immediately became defensive & told me to call my bank. The bank explained I'd have to come in to the bank (it's a local bank with only 2 branches, so I'd have to go back home),and cancel my debit card, have a new one mailed to me, etc., but that the merchant is actually responsible. I called AZIZ back, and he yelled & hung up on me! He promised if I'd email him proof to anjamaziz@aol.com he would email me proof his business never got the extra money. He never sent the proof & when I called him again, he hung up on me again. I called for the owner, PAVEL VALNEV (who is also the owner of AmeriFreight Trucking). His rep, Jordan, told me it would be 10 days before he could call me back. All this over a measly 20 bucks!!! These people can't spell "customer service" let alone give it! I've filed a complaint with the BBB and the Illinois Attorney General. Don't use a debit card!!!
     
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  3. Bakerman

    Bakerman Road Train Member

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    Always use cash or Am Exp. Am Exp. has great cust. svc., and if you tell them to stop payment-they do immediately.
     
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    Longarm Road Train Member

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    Get a new bank. You deserve better than that.
     
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  5. Bean Jr.

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    Funny, AF should be Midway, right?
     
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    Husband had a scam started at a Walmart in Sterling Rocks, IL where he bought a few items and then about a week later $300.00 was spent in a Walmart in Jefferson, MO. He was on the road in Albany, NY area when the charge was drafted. Bank at Regions, had the run around because they wouldn't let me sign the paperwork, he had to finally sign it at the bank in St Louis, MO a couple of weeks later. Overall it took a couple of months to get the money back. It hurt mostly because it was at Christmas when this happened. He had to have the clerk use the card because the card reader was supposedly not working, so we don't know if it was this person who did it or a buddy. Bureaucracy is a killer.
     
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  7. txtodd

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    I normally don't like to use credit cards, because it's too easy to spend when I ain't got the money. But, after this lesson, I'm starting to use a credit card, and then do an online payment from my bank to the credit card immediately to keep that from happening.
     
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  8. IndianaF150

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    Anjam Aziz ???? Good luck with that :)

    Last I knew, .50 cal rounds cost $2.00 each. The next 10 being fired at our troops might be courtesy of Anjam Aziz ????


    Rag-Heads used to buy truck loads of cigarettes in N. Carolina and run them up to Detroit and sell them for massive profits and send the money directly to Al Qaeda w/o paying Michigan taxes.

    A N. Carolina cop noticed them filling a big rig w/ cigarettes and tipped off the Feds. A bunch of muslim store owners in Detroit went to prison.
     
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  9. txtodd

    txtodd Light Load Member

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    I know, right? These people... He can take that $20 & stick it!
     
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    Thankful you only got hit for $20. Some one had installed a "skimmer" that records the info on the magnetic strip on a gas pump at the Lone Star Truck Stop in Hollister TX I used. Within 5 days I had almost $500 in fraudulent gasoline purchases in the Houston area, done by cloning the info on my card onto dummy cards.
    Anytime you hand your card to anyone else, restaurant, store or whatever, they can swipe it into an illegal scanner and clone and sell the numbers on the internet

     
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