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This is another warning about the Dynasty 211 phony subscriptions. I'm in Bakersfield, CA and a guy very similar to the description of "Joseph Robins" posted by SOLsister came asking for the magazine subscriptions. It may have been the same person-about 5'6", blond, not heavy but built, blue eyes. He went by "Mike, " though, as opposed to "Joseph."

I don't have anyone living with me, so I didn't have any other person to tell me when their BS alarms are going off. He had the trawling accent, claiming he was from Texas. He introduced himself as "Mike, " saying he was selling magazine subscriptions for his high school. He looked kind of old for high school, but I didn't think anything of it because one of my high school friends had *always* looked older than high school. I asked if it was BHS, and he denied it, but didn't give me any school or even name the one he "was from."

He kept going on about the points or getting a chance to travel or help out the military. He also mentioned that my neighbors upstairs had bought a couple subscriptions. When I saw the amount they were asking, I thought it was a much higher subscription fee than I remember ever paying, but figured since the magazines were "donated, " and it was for an expensive trip, they upped the price. I signed up, gave him the check, and he left. This was around 7, maybe 8 in the evening.

I thought about it later, and the whole thing seemed kind of unreal. I ended up waking up at 4 this morning, still thinking about it. I came to this site because it has served me well in a couple other situations, and read SOLsister's entry earlier this month in Sunnyvale. It's not unrealistic to be in Sunnyvale on the 11th and Bakersfield on the 16th. "Mike" also said he had been working on this for about 4 weeks. I just wanted to get the message out as quickly as possible. This 211 company moves fast and has fast-talkers. Be careful!

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Dschlapia
Henderson, US
Jul 07, 2011 2:18 am EDT

Around 6pm about three months ago, April 2011, my boyfriend and I arrived at our apartment. We got out of the car and two younger looking girls, maybe just out of high school or in college, ran over to us and said hey we need to talk to you well be right back. We were weirded out, and went inside. We came back out to get something out of the car and they came over again.

One of the girls looked to be about 20, she was super energetic! And started saying she was raising money to go on a trip and so she needed to know what kind of jobs we had. So if we had a certain job she could get "points" from her teacher for it. There was another girl with her who looked about 18, and never said a word. Which was kind of weird...
She went on and on about it being a competition and never told us what she was selling before she even asked if we wanted to buy in. So I asked and it was for magazines!
I've read the same story on this web site from a man in California.
THE SAME STORY! She was a fast talker as he had mentioned in his complaint, and felt weird about the whole situation as we did too.
Basically its a scam and we never received our magazine subscriptions, that we payed them over $100 for!
The receipt has a website that leads to no where with no information and no contact numbers.
Don't fall for this, they got my neighbor too!

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1uspeakof
Austin, US
Aug 06, 2013 8:59 pm EDT

I hope you all enjoyed your magazines

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ripoffedtotal
, US
Jul 16, 2012 11:33 am EDT
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I fell for it too in March 2012 these people are scams complete scams/

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Luna920
Lafayette, US
Jun 19, 2012 7:41 pm EDT
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I fell for it too, only now their story is selling books that go to children with cancer and in hospitals. Well, I did research AFTER the transaction and found this and now I feel really dumb. They played on my emotions, with the children story, and that is SO wrong. I'll think twice next time...

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Duped2012
, US
Feb 09, 2012 5:00 am EST

Yup. I just got duped by a similar looking guy, except his name was "pete" and he pretty much gave me a fake story. The whole time I was telling myself to be more suspicious, but he was such a nice kid. haha, yeah, right. I gave him cash, yeah, what a dummy I was. But oh well. I'm in Pleasanton, Calif. Thanks to all who posted. Wish I would have been smarter...and just not opened the door. Live and learn...

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gdale
Ventura, US
Jan 25, 2012 10:36 pm EST
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I had a very similar experience to this one, and to that of the person from Sunnyvale who complained. I live in Ventura, CA. In my case, two young people, calling themselves Megan and Brandon -- really quite appealing, they reminded me of my old students, which is part of why i got taken in by them. I am very thankful to this person from Bakersfield and the one from Sunnyvale for sharing their experiences, because like this one, i fell for it, but later thought UH-OH, why did i let myself get hustled into this? In my case, they told me i was buying books for kids in the children's wing of the UCLA hospitals (so i bought some atlases...but haven't taken the time yet to call UCLA to see if any of it is true.). I had the same thing with them putting a little sticky-note on my door…which says nothing substantive, but again it was like, now no one else would “bother” me. THey also claimed they were part of a program to give them confidence -- which is indeed in line with what the dynasty211 website (on the receipt) says; but guess what, if you type in the numbers on your receipt on that website, you get nothing. They also said that it had something to do with MADD, and so far they say, not that they are aware of! It is really a shame, as i actually liked these two kids. I don't know if they or dynasty211 is the main problem, but i don't care; i am calling my bank to stop payment on the check, as well as sending in a cancellation notice to the address on the receipt.

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orange county gal
Cypress, US
Nov 27, 2011 9:08 pm EST

He was here in orange county last night! i can't believe we fell for a scam like this. we called the police immediately (yeah, it took us about 15 mins to realize why not check the organization written on the receipt). we hope the police got them because it is a disgust in the human race to have such evil people like him (hope they're not a group).

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Kay Cue
Gig Harbor, US
Aug 10, 2011 1:49 am EDT

His name is Mike Rivers. He's from Texas and is on the run from parole. Yea. I used to work with him...