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MICHAEL CANTRELL is dishonest and he should be arrested. Hopefully he will be if people like me ban together! PACIFIC DREAMS uses many scamming techniques such as not answering their phones and making it impossible to reach them except over a period of weeks through regular snail mail. The scam they used on me was to request me to send potential cruise dates. I sent the dates three separate times, and lots of them. Each time, PACIFIC DREAMS would Slowly respond by mail that none of the dates would work! They would then say, “send more dates.” Well, their technique was to wait until those dates approached thereby spreading out this entire process long enough to eventually say, “Sorry, your offer is expired.” I have complained to the BBB and Consumer Services, and am in the process of finding an attorney and contacting interested media. Hawaii should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this type criminal to exist in their lovely state. People need to act, cohesively, to fight this group. I have researched this group and has podium speakers who are scammers such as MICHAEL CANTRELL SPEROUS. DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS COMPANY AND AVOID DOING BUSINESS WITH MICAHEL CANTRELL
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
“Consumer Protection Warning”
BE AWARE FROM MICHAEL CANTRELL AND PACIFIC DREAMS MAUI
Consumer Protection Commissioner in Hawaii - Joshua Hillsborough is alerting consumers about Michael Cantrell that seemingly offer free travel, but beware he is noted to be a white collar criminal on the run from authority’s in Ohio.
Michael Cantrell began landing innocent victims in Colorado recently, he said in a release issued on Wednesday.
The promotional presentation includes a scam of travel discounts of travel club offers where he implies to victims to save them up 90% off travel and features in large airfare discounts. Michael Cantrell makes a certificate he distributes with the names and identifiable logos of Delta or Southwest Airlines. Michael Cantrell said to one of the victims we interviewed in our report, “the post cards are from a travel company that have no relationship to the airlines, I don’t give a ### if the people don’t get a free trip their moochers”.
The membership advises clients who bought that they will receive “2 Round Trip Airfares” and hotel lodging every year for 50% - 80% off, and direct them to a toll-free number for more information on how to use their membership.
In states similar memberships have been sold for up to $40, 000, consumer complaints indicate that the offer is really a gimmick and a scam to get unsuspecting consumers to sign up for a private exclusive travel club or Web site subscription, Hillsborough said.
“We are concerned that these Travel Clubs Michael Cantrell works at could lure consumers into believing that they are going to receive free trips and greatly discounted hotel stay with no strings attached, when apparently, that is not the case at all, ” Hillsbrough said. “The fine print on the back of the membership documents indicates that so many restrictions apply, and according to complaints from consumers in other states where Michael Cantrell has worked, these travel Clubs are a scam especially pointing out two Clubs in particular “Pacific Dreams” located in Maui where their promotions have run out tourist from the beautiful Hawaiian Island, the conditions often become clear when it’s too late to change one’s mind” said Hillsborough.
Hillsborough said one other Travel Club to watch out for is RSI (Reservation Services International) or Access RSI, this company’s online promotional websites are completely a “fraud” received by a consumer last week featured the same name, logo and an office photo, and said RSI is all smoking mirrors she had purchased from Pacific Dreams in Maui who apparently is not Pacific Dreams but RSI or sells the RSI product, had been selected to be a key whiteness with twenty two other consumers who have purchased with Pacific Dreams In Maui and are now starting a class action law suit. Furthermore she states that Tickets On The Rock is a good company they are the company who serviced me and told me where to go after RSI/Pacific Dreams and Michael Cantrell Scammed & Frauded me for $6940 and a “BONUS HOTEL STAY.”
The membership number on their package directed the recipient to a toll-free number for more information, he said it was to RSI in Florida who never answered the phone the 20+ times we called.
Upon calling, the recipient reached an answering machine stating RSI, a travel agency in the Florida area. The caller was then offered to leave a message and someone would get back to them, no one ever returned the call, but Tickets on the Rock helped me and gave me free activity tickets on while I was on Maui for two people, also told me I was welcome back any time for helping them and they would pay my activity events and a bonus hotel stay, they are wonderful said the victim of the alleged fraud.
Hillsborough said please notify the police immediately if you see Michael Cantrell, we would like to bring him in for questioning on 183 counts of fraud committed in Ohio, Colorado and Maui.
Michael Cantrell is 33 years old approximately 5”9 thin frame and tanned skin.
He claims to be a Berkley Graduate with an Masters degree in computer science, he claims to be a web site developer and expert and can be viewed on YOUTUBE by searching for his name, Michael Cantrell also go’s by Mike Cantrell, James Cantra, and Mike Kintero.
Information about the scam –
Consumer is offered an incentive -
In order to “qualify, ” the consumer was required to answer questions about income, marital status and age, and was told attendance at a 90-minute presentation at a sales location in Maui, he said.
"Consumers in other states who have attended similarly-promoted presentations report that they encountered hard-sell tactics and that Michael Cantrell encouraging them to join his travel club costing thousands of dollars, and that if and when they finally received their membership, they learned that they had to pay more money to vacation than they could have on line by them selfs plus taxes and fees per person, " Hillsborough said. "In addition, many travel dates were blocked, and travel restrictions and requirement to fly out on a Monday or Tuesday and return that Thursday."
The Department of investigations also learned of similar Travel Clubs owned by RSI or serviced by them which the department is receiving an overwhelming amount of complaints. We believe currently the person who is operating the Pacific Dreams sales center in Maui is a gentleman by the name of Scott Carey who is apparently a racist and bigot. Many complaints are being received in Maui featuring the Michael Cantrell and Scott Carey name, claiming to me misrepresented and frauded out of their money. A similar club offering a similar deal and product (RSI), including attending a presentation at an Oahu sale location is under investigation as well. Investigators say, sometime this week or next at the same time in Oahu we will be conducting a consumer based investigation as well, we believe the owner of the company in Maui is the same as the one in Oahu, Hillsborough said.
“We have confirmed that these resorts, hotels and airlines are not affiliated whatsoever with the RSI or Pacific Dreams companies, ” Hillsborough said. “We are alerting consumers that these offers Michael Cantrell, RSI and Pacific Dreams require scrutiny and consideration.”
Hillsborough said any consumer who has purchased a Travel Membership from Michael Cantrell or Pacific Dreams and is thinking about attending their presentation should be wary. We will be putting all of our efforts to get to the bottom of this and detain Michael Cantrell as well the spot light is now on RSI Scott Carey and apparently Brother Jim Carey who is an owner of the RSI Company…
“As always, if a deal seems too good to be true, it’s usually not true, ” Commissioner Hillsborough said.
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There is a group that we have formed called "Take No More" it is a victims group and we currently have a web site going up listing all the company's and family's Michael has stolen from also listing a day to day log of his whereabouts and locations he cannot return to. We as a team will be vigilant in tracking him where ever he goes at posting this information online as well contacting every company he attempts to work for disclosing who he is and applying enough pressure till they fire him, we will not stop, we are many now and we are strong! To Michael Cantrell we will not stop till you make your wrongs wright! Till you publicly apologize and return our money. As well we will contact your clients in Maui and notify them of your scam until your current employer fires you!
I agree 100% Mike Cantrell is a scammer he worked with me in California, he is arrogant and no one likes him he has a horrible reputation for scamming people and he was fired from the travel club I work at. The company threw him on his butt and got rid of him because they caught him stealing and coning to people out of money. Michael Cantrell you give our industry a bad name and the company you work for in Maui is a scam if they keep you ! your a CON ARTIST go home and stop stealing! DO NOT BUY FROM THIS CON!
MIKE CANTRELL - AKA - MIKE CANTRELL - AKA - HAWAII MIKE - AKA - MICHAEL HOLSTER on October 11, 2011
Written by: Sherilyn Campbell
TAKE NOTICE - this is a very serious matter!
Their is an individual named Michael Cantrell, Mike Cantrell or often goes by the name Mike Holster.
He is wanted in the state of Ohio for FRAUD, there is a warrant for his arrest regarding a fraud involving a "home party's" which is a fraud of the worst kind in which he is the master mind behind this scam.
Mike Cantrell is the worst form of criminal there is, he preys on elder folks who are unaware of the danger he presents, he pretends to be unassuming and steals them blind!
This is what he has done to my mother Dorris, he set up a event in which he told us we were getting a free vacation for participating, he asked my mother who is 76 years old to invite her friends, since my father passed she has been lonely. She was convinced by Michael Cantrell to listen to his scam offer of buying into a travel club and by doing so she would get all her money back and travel for basically free. Michael Cantrell used the name of a reputably known travel agent called Global Resorts out of Colorado we researched them and they are a great company Michael worked for them a nice family who are a brother and sister team and took Michael Cantrell in as pay back he scammed them too and they had to fire him.
So you can see this Michael Cantrell is a professional CON MAN! Michael Cantrell showed us film documentary of him on the internet in fact on YOUTUBE and told us he was famous, we believed him and followed his request to purchase as he seemed like a wonderful young man, he began to explain to her that she could travel for penny's and the $4760 she would pay him was only half the real cost of the travel membership and furthermore Michael Cantrell promised to make her a distributor of his travel product where she would make all her money back and triple or quadruple her money in no time. Well this could be not further from the truth than his story about being a good christian boy!
Michael Cantrell is a SCAM and should be brought in to the police station as soon as possible before he hurts any other unsuspecting people. If you come across this Mike Michael Cantrell travel club scam artist I URGE you to contact the local police and have him turned inn! Google him and search for him on you tube to see all the victims he has scammed.
I came across this post and wanted to comment on this criminal as it has been 9 months and I have still not received my moneys back. I see he is working in Hawaii now and SCAMMING tourist in Maui, it seems the company down in Maui who hired him Pacific Dreams are not angels either a simple Google search will tell you that. If Michael Cantrell flees Maui as I'm sure he will as the heat gets turned up he will probably run to his house in Newport Beach CA, or his mothers home where he often runs to in Ohio. Please be aware DO NOT BUY FROM HIM YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY Michael Cantrell only tells lies and steals from people...
There is a group that we have formed called "Take No More" it is a victims group and we currently have a web site going up listing all the company's and family's Michael has stolen from also listing a day to day log of his whereabouts and locations he cannot return to. We as a team will be vigilant in tracking him where ever he goes at posting this information online as well contacting every company he attempts to work for disclosing who he is and applying enough pressure till they fire him, we will not stop, we are many now and we are strong! To Michael Cantrell we will not stop till you make your wrongs wright! Till you publicly apologize and return our money. As well we will contact your clients in Maui and notify them of your scam until your current employer fires you!