My story is the same as the other report posted on this website.
In December 2013 I responded to an I read in the USA Today paper. I called the number 419-931-3010 (which is now disconnected). At that time I left a message and someone named Gary Youssef (unknown if that's his real name) called me back no less than 30 seconds later (he was screening his calls). Gary explained that I could buy 100,000 (minimum) cards for $3,000 (i.e. 3 cents per card investment) and they (Benefit Alliance) would also send me a list of clinics, hospitals, and other places that were "dying" to have these cards placed in their facilities because there were a lot of patients needing medications but didn't have health insurance. Gary also even brought up the fact that ObamaCare was not working and people needed an alternative to ObamaCare and that Rx Advantage Plus was that alternative.
Gary also told me he could provide endorsements from individuals who were already in the program and that I could call them and ask them any questions I wanted. I called two individuals (hand picked by Gary and probably sitting in the same car with him working the same scam). These two individuals told me how wonderful the program was and how much money they were making. Looking back these individuals were definetly involved in the scheme.
After telling Gary I was interested a female named Julianne (who did everything to avoid giving me her last name and to this day I don't know her last name) called me and told me that she would be my representative and went into more details about the program and how they would hire subreps who would do all the work by distributing the cards to clinics and doctor's offices in my territory. Dumb ass me provided Julianne with my credit card # and 2 months later I received 5 boxes of the cards. The five boxes didn't seem to contain 100,000 cards so I called Julianne and she indicated that the rest of the cards (75,000) were sent to my subreps. I asked Julieanne if I could have the names or phone numbers of these so called sub reps so that I could meet them and buy them a cup of coffee. Julieanne indicated that for security purposes they could not provide any information on these subreps. Then I asked her to at a minimum give me the locations where the subreps were distributing the other 75, 000 cards. Not surprised, she indicated that the information was confidential. After these few conversations it became impossible to communicate with Julie or Gary since they never answered their phones or returned my calls. After constantly attempting to contact Gary and Julie I finally received a response that the cards were coming. What, I thought she had told me that the other 75,000 cards had already been distributed. When I finally got a hold of Julie she stated that this was perfectly normal and that despite not informing me about it, the cards would come in waves so I would not be overwhelmed with all the boxes which seemed ridiculous.
During this whole time period I was under the assumption that my cards were being placed at clinics, pharmacies doctors offices etc.
February 2014: I received about 5 emails from Julieanne (no phone calls) telling me that they were running a promotion and for every 100,000 cards ($3000 more dollars) I purchased they would give me 25,000 cards free. I replied to Julieanne and told her that I was interested (only to make her salivate) but that I first needed to see the results and commissions statements from the first 100,000 cards. Julieanne called me (salivating of course) to get my approval for another $3000 and that I would receive my commissions and statements. Advised Julieanne to first send me the statements so that I could review my commissions and to make an informed decision. She indicated that I would receive a commission statement in May 2014 as these always ran in a lag. Told Julieanne in that case call me back in May.
May 2014: No commissions statements received. Called Julieanne, (number disconnected). Emailed Julianne and Gary, no reply.
I did some research on the company and discovered some other names of possible contacts. Per state records the following individuals are also involved and I tried contacting them to no avail.
Mr. P. Cargnino (Owner)
Mr. Dan Foster (VP of Logistics)
Mr. Kyle Kayden (CFO)
June 2014: Same status as in May 2014.
July 2014: Same status.
September 2014: Same status
November 24, 2014 Over the past several months Julieanne, Gary, and everyone else at Benefit Alliance have evaporated into the atmosphere and have turned off all forms of communication, phone is disconnected, emails come back as undeliverable, etc.
My next steps are to file a criminal report with several state attorneys.
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My story is the same as the other report posted on this website.
In December 2013 I responded to an I read in the USA Today paper. I called the number 419-931-3010 (which is now disconnected). At that time I left a message and someone named Gary Youssef (unknown if that's his real name) called me back no less than 30 seconds later (he was screening his calls). Gary explained that I could buy 100,000 (minimum) cards for $3,000 (i.e. 3 cents per card investment) and they (Benefit Alliance) would also send me a list of clinics, hospitals, and other places that were "dying" to have these cards placed in their facilities because there were a lot of patients needing medications but didn't have health insurance. Gary also even brought up the fact that ObamaCare was not working and people needed an alternative to ObamaCare and that Rx Advantage Plus was that alternative.
Gary also told me he could provide endorsements from individuals who were already in the program and that I could call them and ask them any questions I wanted. I called two individuals (hand picked by Gary and probably sitting in the same car with him working the same scam). These two individuals told me how wonderful the program was and how much money they were making. Looking back these individuals were definetly involved in the scheme.
After telling Gary I was interested a female named Julianne (who did everything to avoid giving me her last name and to this day I don't know her last name) called me and told me that she would be my representative and went into more details about the program and how they would hire subreps who would do all the work by distributing the cards to clinics and doctor's offices in my territory. Dumb ass me provided Julianne with my credit card # and 2 months later I received 5 boxes of the cards. The five boxes didn't seem to contain 100,000 cards so I called Julianne and she indicated that the rest of the cards (75,000) were sent to my subreps. I asked Julieanne if I could have the names or phone numbers of these so called sub reps so that I could meet them and buy them a cup of coffee. Julieanne indicated that for security purposes they could not provide any information on these subreps. Then I asked her to at a minimum give me the locations where the subreps were distributing the other 75, 000 cards. Not surprised, she indicated that the information was confidential. After these few conversations it became impossible to communicate with Julie or Gary since they never answered their phones or returned my calls. After constantly attempting to contact Gary and Julie I finally received a response that the cards were coming. What, I thought she had told me that the other 75,000 cards had already been distributed. When I finally got a hold of Julie she stated that this was perfectly normal and that despite not informing me about it, the cards would come in waves so I would not be overwhelmed with all the boxes which seemed ridiculous.
During this whole time period I was under the assumption that my cards were being placed at clinics, pharmacies doctors offices etc.
February 2014: I received about 5 emails from Julieanne (no phone calls) telling me that they were running a promotion and for every 100,000 cards ($3000 more dollars) I purchased they would give me 25,000 cards free. I replied to Julieanne and told her that I was interested (only to make her salivate) but that I first needed to see the results and commissions statements from the first 100,000 cards. Julieanne called me (salivating of course) to get my approval for another $3000 and that I would receive my commissions and statements. Advised Julieanne to first send me the statements so that I could review my commissions and to make an informed decision. She indicated that I would receive a commission statement in May 2014 as these always ran in a lag. Told Julieanne in that case call me back in May.
May 2014: No commissions statements received. Called Julieanne, (number disconnected). Emailed Julianne and Gary, no reply.
I did some research on the company and discovered some other names of possible contacts. Per state records the following individuals are also involved and I tried contacting them to no avail.
Mr. P. Cargnino (Owner)
Mr. Dan Foster (VP of Logistics)
Mr. Kyle Kayden (CFO)
June 2014: Same status as in May 2014.
July 2014: Same status.
September 2014: Same status
November 24, 2014 Over the past several months Julieanne, Gary, and everyone else at Benefit Alliance have evaporated into the atmosphere and have turned off all forms of communication, phone is disconnected, emails come back as undeliverable, etc.
My next steps are to file a criminal report with several state attorneys.
Bottom line - stay away from these scammers.