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Golden Weeks Dubai – Scammers in Dubai Bullying the Middle Class Salaried People
I, Mathew Abraham was shopping at Al Ghurair Centre Dubai when a sales representative for Vacation International suddenly handed-over a raffle coupon and told me just to fill my contact details and drop in the box at their stall booth and if shortlisted I will receive a week’s free stay for 6 persons at their Dive Inn Resort at Sharm –El-Sheikh, Egypt.
In the evening I got a call from vacation International office telling that I have won the gift and to get it I must attend a party at their office along with my spouse on 20th July 2011 evening.
We went there and there was no party but were taken to a hall preset with background music and a representative call Mr. Burhanu, well trained, brain-washed us for three hours showing the Interval membership card, Trade License of Vacation International, Bank Guarantee of AED 1 Million deposit with Dubai Economic Department etc. and told us to by the timeshare for Resort, Sharm-Al-Sheikh Egypt and if any non-performance from vacation International then we can go and claim our money from Dubai Economic Department against the AED 1 Million Bank Guarantee. Then they made us to sign a contract and took AED 17950 upfront immediately with a verbal condition that they will issue us the Interval Membership card (www.Intervalworld.com) immediately and assist us to sell the time share online. To brain wash us Mr. Burhanu sat with us with a laptop computer and started creating a registration for an online site, but afterwards I realized that he was befooling us to get the contract signed and to collect the cash from me.
After that many days, weeks & months passed, we visited their office many times, met Mr. Mohamed Serri – Customer Relationship Manager. He also gave us many false promises but till today we did not get even the Interval Membership card which means they duped us our hard earned money of AED. 17, 950. Moreover they kept the original contract with them for 15 days to pass the legal period for cancellation.
Realizing that I am duped by Vacation International, I have investigated about their past and present and the result is alarming and they have duped hundreds and thousands of middle class people like me (who are their main target).
Some facts about them are as follows;
- Vacation International, Dubai started in Rigga Street in year 1996 with Mr. Burhanu, Mr. Khaled, Mr. Hamdoun and Mr. Mohd Serri at customer care.
- Then they shifted to Holiday Inn from year 2005 to 2008
- Then near Hamrain Centre from year 2006 to 2013
- Now they shifted their office and changed their Trade License Name and I know the new name and location because they cannot dupe people with the Vacation International LLC name anymore.
- STILL THEY ARE CONTINUING DUPING PEOPLE WITH THEIR SAME TECHNICS USING THE NEW COMPANY NAME "GOLDEN WEEKS"
- I know many people like me are duped by them.
To conclude, at this juncture, I want to take up this matter of clear cheating with the authorities and get our money back.
So, please anybody who are in a situation like me please feel free to contact me urgently on my Mobile +[protected].
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Scam Alert!
This is the short way. to say it is a SCAM
hello,
Yesterday my husband and I were shopping in Outlet Dubai Shopping Mall. There was a counter with 2 guys who gave us a voucher to fill, 1 per family, with a chance to win free holidays in 3 different destination. They said if you win, you will get a call tomorrow and they will invite you to attend a party at 2 pm. At 11am next day a woman called me and congratulated me that my husband and I won a free fift - 4 night/ 5 days holidays. Invited us to attend a special party where 2 winners will get their gifts and we are one of them. This woman told her name Basma, tel. and started to call us every 30 min to check how we are doing and if we left house, if we find our way, she was telling us to take a taxi, she started to hurry us up telling us that we are late, and she was calling us every 2 mins.
When we reached their office next to Deira City Centre, the receptionist gave us a form to fill. I didn't want to fill the income column but they insisted so I just choose a random number. The office was dodgy, very dirty, looked cheap. The staff were dressed badly. I started to ask where is the party, we dressed up to attend a posh party, Basma was calling us every 2 min to rush us up and now we are waiting here, in the hall. Receptionists were giggling as I told them the whole telephone story. Then a young Egyptian guy came out and invited us to another room, the same dodgy as the hall, said he is 27 though he looked like a teenager, started to ask stupid questions and telling about his ex girlfriends and women in general...Two and a half hours he was trying to make us sign a paper. When I said that we have to do investigation about the company, check its reputation, show this paper to our lawyer, he said its not possible. We asked his business card, he didn't have it. We asked to provide us any printed info about the company, offers, etc. He said: why you need a lawyer? you don't trust us? I showed you a website already... I asked to take the papers where he was writing and drawing their offers and deals. He said its confidential info and he cannot give us those papers. I told him it's very suspecious, I want my free holidays gift certificate and asked to finish this presentation asap. The Egyptian teenager was trying to convince my husband to sign the papers. Out of politeness, we were still listening to him and waiting for him to finish his presentation "brain washing". After two and a half hours I became already inpatient, told him lets finish it, the guy brought me a paper where it was written with a lot of grammar mistakes that 4 night stay certificate, I have to send to them 21 days before my hotel stay but conditions: you have to paid before check-in for buffet dinners and breakfast! I regretted that my husband and I wasted our valuable time. Also now I can recall that there was 4 people who were trying to convince people to give them their money, one of them was an Arabic woman, 3 others - Arabic men. All of them had customers, all customers exept us were Arabic: a single old woman, a couple with a child, and 2 young men. I don't know if those 'customers" were real or not, or it was a role-play for us. Anyway, after that I googled and found this website. I felt that I have to share with people about this scam!
Hi Mathew
I am also a victim and am interested to take this case to the court. Check this link below .
facebook.com/gw.cheater
Hello Mathew,
I am also a victim and am interested to take this case to the court. I will try to reach you on your number above.