Be on the lookout for timeshare resale phonies

I have been approached too...did you find anything out?

Yes, regrettably. I researched them what I thought was very closely, but evidently not closely enough. I seemed to have lost money with them. Their answer was Mexico took it. Now they want me to pay brokers fees for deal that has gone bad because I withdrew my request to sell. They have many red flags in their operation. In fact I saw similar format with other scams on the Internet. It matched them to a T. Their organizational scheme is quite sophisticated and they do seem real. However, when I asked them for a photograph from their office window with the salesman unit, whose name was used at that time of Robert T Edwards, they refused to send any photographs stating it was against the law to show any personal information to the seller. Figure that out. My position is now Dash run away as fast as you can.

I was offered similiar deal by halicon. Commission is paid on the back end. However when it came time to sign the contract they needed 3500 for resort fees which would be reimbursed after closing. Told them i would think about it and haven't from them since. Not sure why anyone would pay triple for what i bought a couple of years ago.

Hi Barbara. I was also contacted by Colorado Real estate. The guy I was dealing with said his name is Leonard Hoffman. He offered a good price to buy my timeshare. SInce I have been genuinely busy i didnt get a chance to respond to his request. He called 4 times asking me to fax/email him my time share contract. I was just about to email him my contract (off course with pertinent informations blacked out) and I decided to search his company and found you. We should update each other.

Colorado One Real Estate has called me 10 times in 7 days, and offerred me $236,100 for a time share that cost me $10,200 when I negotiated it last year. Seems like a score, LOL..........

can you please tell us what happened> I have been contacted as well

I was contacted by one Ann Marquez with the offer to buy our time shares in Cancun, Mexico. First they were asking for 11% commission upon the sale of the timeshares, which they later removed from the contract. They told me that the buyer is a Chinese Company Shandong Gold based in China, The offer looked too good to ignore and we signed the letter of intent to sell. Quite a few emails transpired and then they sent me a statement form an escrow Company Named CCW Holdings based in New York City. The money was held in escrow by CITIBANAMEX. Then they said that we have to pay the two state taxes for the timeshares, Quintana Roo and Jalisco. They sent the two invoices from said states, and they looked authentic, so we sent the wire transfers to the escrow company, and they sent a receipt from CITIBANAMEX. As time went by, we ended up paying a Customs License for the money to be transferred into our account. Everything looked good until CITIBANAMEX required us to pay 42,000USD for a "license bond" to be returned to us after 15 days of the sale- supposed to protect the bank and us for FATCA and money laundering- sounds very legitimate!! Here comes the bomb- CITIBANAMEX wired the money to our account at Bank of America, but the account number was wrong, and BA refused the wire. CCW Holdings asked the Mexican bank to re-wire the money to the correct account, then we received word from NBC that the buyer walked out of the deal, and CITIBANAMEX cancelled the escrow and transferred al the money to another bank BANCOMER. Now NBC tells me ( this time it's the NBC owner Charles Beck ) that I will have to go to court in Mexico City to get my money out of escrow, at my own expense and to have my lawyer represent us. I think that NBC, CCW Holdings and the Mexican Banks are in cahoots with each other. This Charles Beck even said that I will lose all my money if I don't show up during the court hearing. He was also very rude and unprofessional when he was talking with me- Please, HELP!!! I only survive on my SSS retirement...

Oh yeah. Get calls all the time from some sort of agent with hot buyers.

I’m dealing with them right now. I’m in the situation they are asking me to pay upfront for Quintana Roo state tax and will get reimbursed. CCW sent me a statement from CitiAmex that the money already deposited.

My parents have been contacted by this company. Can you tell me how you are sure it’s a scam

they are very believable and robbed of us over $10,000.CDN

They have been contacting me over the past several months as well. My property is near Cancun as well. I have been very skeptical and have asked them for contacts of any perviously satisfied customers. I have yet to send them any documents confirming my ownership.

We are in the same situation. Richard C. Lehrman of Bluelight Realty Management Group from NY called us about out timeshare in Cancun. Benjamin Carmona is the escrow officer. They want you to sent money to a lawyer in Mexico and pay taxes. I called the Attorney General Office and they said it is a scam.

Also Magnum Realty, Bonnie Dai Smith, total scam!, Lost over $10,000 US. Same tactics. Totally believable, got to the point where we would have to go to Mexico City to get anything. Don’t get hooked in. For us expensive lesson learned!!!

they called me as well - Michael Moore and then Lance - $63000 - never pay anything in advance - saying that there is no need in many cases to even pay any taxes, etc - only transfer fees at the timeshare - especially if the time share is not deeded.

contacted by this company...were you paid or scam?

Yep, I also got an exceedingly lucrative offer from Golden Asia Realty (100x purchase price)and subsequent escrow statement from Nations Capital Inc. Title Services with an address in Rego Park NY. I was planning to contact Citibanamex who supposedly issued the escrow statement for confirmation that the info it real.