Wire Fraud

It just so happens I was working in fraud prevention when this happened. The thing they were doing in the sale of their dick steroids, is something I have observed many companies doing. I will not mention any names because I don't want to get sued. Basically what happens is once they get your financial information for any reason they start charging you for all kinds of crap you never intended to purchase and sending you regular shipments of things you didnt even know they made, or they charge you and never ship the worthless garbage they say you bought.

The company tries to define what they are doing as a monthly subscription or something like that. In the case of enzyte all you have to do is buy one of their other supplements and they start filling out orders you never asked for sending you a months supply of whatever crap you ordered every month and sending you a "sample" of every product in their catalog. One of the main ways they trick you into giving them your credit card information is by offering a free sample that you only have to pay shipping for, then they insist on payment of the shipping cost with a credit card.

This way of behaving once a corporation has your credit card number is not unusual or restricted to companies that sell things that don't really work. Perhaps you have a legitimate subscription service for a monthly entertainment service like movies, internet, cable, or satellite. Any of these companies are likely to continue charging you for services you are not recieving long after you have cancelled your account. Some even stop billing you, wait a few months, then reactivate automated billing without resuming services or informing you. In hard economic times some large and seemingly reputible companies have used this method of raising revenue to enhance their bottom line. Again, mentioning no names, but if you do some research you can find out about some prior federal lawsuits of this nature.

Then once they have your information they are free to charge you for whatever they want and you are unlikely to recover any of that money. When you contact your bank, or usually when they contact you, you will initially talk to an overworked phone jocky who will try to explain the situation to you and try to figure out with you which transactions on your account you did not consent to. Next, you will be transferred to the person who's job it is to say "No." The bank calls them something that leads you to believe its their job to get your money back but reallythey are there to tell you why this fraud is your fault and what obscure federal regulation allows them to deny your claim. Every claim of a fraudulent charge that is maid is filed as an insurance claim by the bank to their insurance company, who also has people whos job is to deny claims. The bottom line they will give you is something like, "you gave them your financial information, so now they can sell you whatever they want."

Sure the product descriptions are intentionally deceptive, and the clause about recurring charges until the end of time are in fine print, and sure all of that might be illegal, but what are you gonna do? Sue?