If you are contacted by these jokers either by mail or phone, tell them to take a hike. This is the same outfit also known as Mason Grace Enterprises. Look them up on the net and all the complaints against their bogus, fraudulent programs. ANY envelope stuffing program is a scam. Do not bother with them - you will lose money.
I recieved a letter from Mason Grace Ventures about a Home Working opportunity to assemble "Get Credit Now" booklets at home at $20.00 per booklet. I was to sent $99.00 for registration with the company, refundable after the first shipment was sent back to them completed. The first thing I noticed was that the letter was post marked from North TexasP&DC Dallas, TX 750. This struck me as peculiar. While I am open to a job such as this, I will not be scammed, and I post this as a warning to let anyone looking into this to beware. The website is also contradictory as it states they do not take credit card numbers on the application for employment, but at the end of the site, it has the visa and mastercard logo. This is obviously a scam artist who has yet to be caught, so I say again Beware.
It began with a letter in the mail saying one could make $15 an envelope which if returned to them I could profit. After this I get a phone call saying they work for Amazon and Mason Grace which could make me alot of money builing a website since Valentine's Day was coming up. I would have to invest $3000. using a Visa card only. I fell for it. I am out 274.for the supplies,$150 for the stamps to mail the envelopes I stuffed and $3000. for the fake website.
In early June 2014, consumers began complaining to Metro NY BBB about mailed solicitations they received from Mason Grace Enterprises (Mason Grace) offering work-at-home opportunities. Mason Grace mails solicitations to individuals with attractive income opportunities. The application form invites consumers to order the Mason Grace envelope-stuffing materials in various amounts, with labels such as “Income Group #1 (Earn $490).” The highest income group offer lures people with “Earn $5,000.” Although the claims in the mailer sound as though the consumer will get paid for stuffing envelopes, in fact, the consumer only gets paid for the letters mailed back to Mason Grace in response to the letters the consumer sends out. In addition, consumers are not reimbursed for the materials or postage unless Mason Grace receives response letters back.
Metro NY BBB believes much of the Mason Grace mailer is deceptive or misleading:
• The mailer says consumers “have nothing to lose” and that there is “FREE POSTAGE.” This could mislead consumers because they must stay with the program and be successful enough to receive nine (9) paychecks to be eligible for reimbursement of the money they laid out for the materials and postage.
• It also says, “All you have to do is stuff the envelopes that we send you with the letters that we send you, and then mail them out so that you can receive your pay check.” It does not mention that the consumer must pay for postage out-of-pocket or that the mailed letters must be returned to Mason Grace in order to receive compensation or reimbursement for expenses.
• The mailer states there is a “Money Back Guarantee,” but this is no guarantee, because although it says that the initial fee will be refunded and expenses reimbursed with “every 9th paycheck,” the paycheck only comes if response letters are returned to Mason Grace.
In several of its responses to complaints filed with BBB from consumers seeking refunds, Mason Grace cites the terms and conditions on its website at (http://www.masongraceenterprises.com/) as the reason for the refusal to refund consumers. These terms are complicated, convoluted, and appear to make it unlikely that a consumer will be able to obtain a refund. In addition, the terms and conditions for terminations and refunds published on the website are contained in a section titled “Business Opportunity Rule” and located in the middle of a 6,000-word document. In the same section is Mason Grace’s statement that results are not guaranteed, and that “it is possible to achieve no results even if method is implemented correctly.”
Mason Grace claims to be located at 100 Church Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10007. Mason Grace Enterprises is not registered as an active entity with the New York Department of State Division of Corporations. The domain for the website at is privately registered with GoDaddy as of June 18, 2014, for a one year period. Metro NY BBB has reached out to this company on multiple occasions to obtain additional background information about the business. Mason Grace has not responded to those requests. In addition, BBB sent several inquiries about the potentially deceptive and misleading advertising in the mailing offers. The first notice about the advertising concerns sent to Mason Grace was acknowledged by Richard Charlton, Director, but his response failed to provide clarification or substantiation of issues. To date, Metro NY BBB has not received a response from the company to the second notice sent to Mason Grace.
If you send Mason Grace Enterprises or Ventures any money - In no time at all you'll be calling yourself a fool. To them you are what con men call "marks". Take my word for it or search them up on the web - Ripo** Rep*rt, BBB, BCA, Scam.org. It's all there - If you send them money it's your own fault, as it was mine. Save yourself some pain and run the other way now!!
Consumers Seeking to Work from Home Lost Millions of Dollars
FOR RELEASE
November 25, 2015
TAGS: deceptive/misleading conduct Franchises, Business Opportunities, and Investments Northeast Region Consumer Protection Advertising and Marketing Work-at-Home
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has halted a nationwide work-at-home scam that took more than $7 million from tens of thousands of consumers. The defendants allegedly lured consumers with false claims that they could earn up to $5,000 or more in weekly income by stuffing and mailing “special advertising letters” from home.
According to the FTC’s complaint, David S. Brookman and his companies mailed unsolicited flyers, claiming:
GET PAID FOR MAILING OUR SPECIAL LETTERS FROM HOME!
POTENTIAL EARNINGS OF UP TO $5000 OR MORE WEEKLY!
FREE POSTAGE, FREE CIRCULARS, FREE ENVELOPES.
Pay Checks Mailed Every Tuesday.
Don’t Get Left Out! Give us a try & receive a check in as little as ten days!
According to papers filed with the court, only 10 percent of consumers received any payment at all, and their total average earnings was $19.50, far less than the $99 to $399 they had to pay up-front to participate.
According to the FTC’s complaint, the “special advertising letters” consumers were being asked to stuff and mail turned out to be nothing more than solicitation flyers for a second bogus work-at-home program. Consumers who joined the second program were asked to pay an up-front fee, typically $99, purportedly to assemble and mail the defendants’ “Get Credit Now” booklets from home and receive $20 per booklet mailed. In fact, consumers in the booklet program were not paid for fulfilling orders and were expected to market the booklets and generate orders to make any money.
Brookman and his companies are charged with violating the FTC Act and the FTC’s Business Opportunity Rule, which requires business opportunity sellers to provide specific information to help consumers evaluate a business opportunity, and prohibits sellers from making earnings claims without substantiation. The FTC seeks to permanently shut down the operation, which has used different business names to avoid negative publicity.
The defendants are Brookman and his companies, Capital Enterprises Inc., formerly known as David Gates Inc. and also doing business as Gordon James Enterprises, Maxwell Gates Enterprises, Maxwell Scott Enterprises, Preston Lord Enterprises, and Warner Daniel Enterprises; Carson Lord Enterprises LLC; Java Enterprises LLC; Mason Grace Enterprises LLC, also d/b/a Mason Grace Ventures; and Preston Lord Enterprises of New York LLC, also d/b/a Preston Lord Enterprises.
The Commission vote authorizing staff to file the complaint for permanent injunction was 4-0. On October 26, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a temporary restraining order halting the defendants’ deceptive scheme and freezing their assets. On October 30, 2015, the court entered a stipulated preliminary injunction order continuing the ban on the defendants’ activities and the asset freeze pending litigation.
NOTE: The Commission authorizes the filing of a complaint when it has “reason to believe” that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest.
The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC’s online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 2,000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC’s website provides free information on a variety of consumer topics. Like the FTC on Facebook (link is external), follow us on Twitter (link is external), and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources.
Mason Grace Ventures Reviews
Mason Grace Fraudsters
If you are contacted by these jokers either by mail or phone, tell them to take a hike. This is the same outfit also known as Mason Grace Enterprises. Look them up on the net and all the complaints against their bogus, fraudulent programs. ANY envelope stuffing program is a scam. Do not bother with them - you will lose money.
I recieved a letter from Mason Grace Ventures about a Home Working opportunity to assemble "Get Credit Now" booklets at home at $20.00 per booklet. I was to sent $99.00 for registration with the company, refundable after the first shipment was sent back to them completed. The first thing I noticed was that the letter was post marked from North TexasP&DC Dallas, TX 750. This struck me as peculiar. While I am open to a job such as this, I will not be scammed, and I post this as a warning to let anyone looking into this to beware. The website is also contradictory as it states they do not take credit card numbers on the application for employment, but at the end of the site, it has the visa and mastercard logo. This is obviously a scam artist who has yet to be caught, so I say again Beware.
It began with a letter in the mail saying one could make $15 an envelope which if returned to them I could profit. After this I get a phone call saying they work for Amazon and Mason Grace which could make me alot of money builing a website since Valentine's Day was coming up. I would have to invest $3000. using a Visa card only. I fell for it. I am out 274.for the supplies,$150 for the stamps to mail the envelopes I stuffed and $3000. for the fake website.
F Rating witht he BBB
In early June 2014, consumers began complaining to Metro NY BBB about mailed solicitations they received from Mason Grace Enterprises (Mason Grace) offering work-at-home opportunities. Mason Grace mails solicitations to individuals with attractive income opportunities. The application form invites consumers to order the Mason Grace envelope-stuffing materials in various amounts, with labels such as “Income Group #1 (Earn $490).” The highest income group offer lures people with “Earn $5,000.” Although the claims in the mailer sound as though the consumer will get paid for stuffing envelopes, in fact, the consumer only gets paid for the letters mailed back to Mason Grace in response to the letters the consumer sends out. In addition, consumers are not reimbursed for the materials or postage unless Mason Grace receives response letters back.
Metro NY BBB believes much of the Mason Grace mailer is deceptive or misleading:
• The mailer says consumers “have nothing to lose” and that there is “FREE POSTAGE.” This could mislead consumers because they must stay with the program and be successful enough to receive nine (9) paychecks to be eligible for reimbursement of the money they laid out for the materials and postage.
• It also says, “All you have to do is stuff the envelopes that we send you with the letters that we send you, and then mail them out so that you can receive your pay check.” It does not mention that the consumer must pay for postage out-of-pocket or that the mailed letters must be returned to Mason Grace in order to receive compensation or reimbursement for expenses.
• The mailer states there is a “Money Back Guarantee,” but this is no guarantee, because although it says that the initial fee will be refunded and expenses reimbursed with “every 9th paycheck,” the paycheck only comes if response letters are returned to Mason Grace.
In several of its responses to complaints filed with BBB from consumers seeking refunds, Mason Grace cites the terms and conditions on its website at (http://www.masongraceenterprises.com/) as the reason for the refusal to refund consumers. These terms are complicated, convoluted, and appear to make it unlikely that a consumer will be able to obtain a refund. In addition, the terms and conditions for terminations and refunds published on the website are contained in a section titled “Business Opportunity Rule” and located in the middle of a 6,000-word document. In the same section is Mason Grace’s statement that results are not guaranteed, and that “it is possible to achieve no results even if method is implemented correctly.”
Mason Grace claims to be located at 100 Church Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10007. Mason Grace Enterprises is not registered as an active entity with the New York Department of State Division of Corporations. The domain for the website at is privately registered with GoDaddy as of June 18, 2014, for a one year period. Metro NY BBB has reached out to this company on multiple occasions to obtain additional background information about the business. Mason Grace has not responded to those requests. In addition, BBB sent several inquiries about the potentially deceptive and misleading advertising in the mailing offers. The first notice about the advertising concerns sent to Mason Grace was acknowledged by Richard Charlton, Director, but his response failed to provide clarification or substantiation of issues. To date, Metro NY BBB has not received a response from the company to the second notice sent to Mason Grace.
An opportunity to be a fool
If you send Mason Grace Enterprises or Ventures any money - In no time at all you'll be calling yourself a fool. To them you are what con men call "marks". Take my word for it or search them up on the web - Ripo** Rep*rt, BBB, BCA, Scam.org. It's all there - If you send them money it's your own fault, as it was mine. Save yourself some pain and run the other way now!!
Mason Grace BUSTED BY THE FTC!!!
FTC Halts Bogus Envelope-Stuffing Scam
Consumers Seeking to Work from Home Lost Millions of Dollars
FOR RELEASE
November 25, 2015
TAGS: deceptive/misleading conduct Franchises, Business Opportunities, and Investments Northeast Region Consumer Protection Advertising and Marketing Work-at-Home
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has halted a nationwide work-at-home scam that took more than $7 million from tens of thousands of consumers. The defendants allegedly lured consumers with false claims that they could earn up to $5,000 or more in weekly income by stuffing and mailing “special advertising letters” from home.
According to the FTC’s complaint, David S. Brookman and his companies mailed unsolicited flyers, claiming:
GET PAID FOR MAILING OUR SPECIAL LETTERS FROM HOME!
POTENTIAL EARNINGS OF UP TO $5000 OR MORE WEEKLY!
FREE POSTAGE, FREE CIRCULARS, FREE ENVELOPES.
Pay Checks Mailed Every Tuesday.
Don’t Get Left Out! Give us a try & receive a check in as little as ten days!
According to papers filed with the court, only 10 percent of consumers received any payment at all, and their total average earnings was $19.50, far less than the $99 to $399 they had to pay up-front to participate.
According to the FTC’s complaint, the “special advertising letters” consumers were being asked to stuff and mail turned out to be nothing more than solicitation flyers for a second bogus work-at-home program. Consumers who joined the second program were asked to pay an up-front fee, typically $99, purportedly to assemble and mail the defendants’ “Get Credit Now” booklets from home and receive $20 per booklet mailed. In fact, consumers in the booklet program were not paid for fulfilling orders and were expected to market the booklets and generate orders to make any money.
Brookman and his companies are charged with violating the FTC Act and the FTC’s Business Opportunity Rule, which requires business opportunity sellers to provide specific information to help consumers evaluate a business opportunity, and prohibits sellers from making earnings claims without substantiation. The FTC seeks to permanently shut down the operation, which has used different business names to avoid negative publicity.
The defendants are Brookman and his companies, Capital Enterprises Inc., formerly known as David Gates Inc. and also doing business as Gordon James Enterprises, Maxwell Gates Enterprises, Maxwell Scott Enterprises, Preston Lord Enterprises, and Warner Daniel Enterprises; Carson Lord Enterprises LLC; Java Enterprises LLC; Mason Grace Enterprises LLC, also d/b/a Mason Grace Ventures; and Preston Lord Enterprises of New York LLC, also d/b/a Preston Lord Enterprises.
The Commission vote authorizing staff to file the complaint for permanent injunction was 4-0. On October 26, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a temporary restraining order halting the defendants’ deceptive scheme and freezing their assets. On October 30, 2015, the court entered a stipulated preliminary injunction order continuing the ban on the defendants’ activities and the asset freeze pending litigation.
NOTE: The Commission authorizes the filing of a complaint when it has “reason to believe” that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest.
The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC’s online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 2,000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC’s website provides free information on a variety of consumer topics. Like the FTC on Facebook (link is external), follow us on Twitter (link is external), and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources.
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