Deluxe tour scammers

In August 2011, my husband and I were in Kyiv (we met a child from a medical institution). While in the Dreamtown shopping center on Obolonsky Prospekt, a girl approached us and asked us to fill out a questionnaire about tourism, where she entered my data and mobile phone number, saying that in a month there would be a drawing of prizes among these questionnaires. We didn’t attach any importance to this, but around the middle of November they called me on my mobile phone and said that we won an expensive prize and we need to come to the presentation tomorrow, but it’s necessary together (married couple), these are the conditions of their company and that otherwise we will not be given. I said that we do not have the opportunity to come, that we live in another city and this is not easy to do. I was very surprised by their call and during a conversation with them, I clarified why they were ready to give us an expensive prize and whether it was all free, they answered me that it was completely free, that their company was celebrating its anniversary and, in connection with this, was conducting a free advertising campaign with drawing valuable prizes. The girl I spoke to on the phone said that it's okay if we can't come tomorrow, as there will be a re-presentation in December for those who can't come to the first ceremony and for us to prepare. I was very happy, because it would be very nice to win something.

On 12/16/2011, a girl named Marina called me on my mobile phone and said that tomorrow at 12.00 (it will last 3 hours) the prizes will be awarded in the Arena City Business Center at Kyiv, st. Krasnoarmeiskaya / Basseinaya 1-3/2A block D-19 4th floor. We also received an invitation by e-mail (which contained the number No. 1111111, this number was a gift, according to her) which had to be presented at the entrance to Arena City. We got on the Internet, found the website of this company, called the phone located there and, making sure that it was really they who were holding the action and we were participants, we ran to the station, bought tickets and went to Kyiv to present the prizes.

Arriving in Kyiv, we hurried to the address indicated on the invitation. At 11.55 in the Arena City lobby, we were met by the registrar, checked our passports and sent us by elevator to the 4th floor, where the next Delux employee was already waiting for us, who took us to the office. At the office, the girl registered with passports and an invitation, assured us that the event would last three hours, and at the end we would receive the promised prizes. We were taken to the hall, where the next girl (I don’t remember the name) was immediately assigned to us. There were about 15 tables in the hall, almost all were occupied, and 3 people were sitting at them, a man and a woman plus an employee (ca) of "Delux". Everyone sat facing the screen hanging on the wall and with their backs to the front door. Employees of the company sat facing the front door and with their backs to the screen and could see the entire audience. The tables were arranged in such a way that we could only see the employee sitting across from us. A Delux employee who was sitting with us conducted a survey: who we are, where we work, how we spend money and on what, where we rest. At about 12.20 a woman (tired-looking) came out to the screen, clapped her hands, thus attracting attention to herself, and began to broadcast (I don’t remember how she introduced herself, either Anna Leopoldovna, or Jeannette Klozedovna). She said that we are all those who won their drawing and that they give them absolutely free of charge for the time we spent here in the amount of 3 hours, during which they will tell us about the activities of their young but promising company “Delux”.

We wrote a statement to the prosecutor's office in Kyiv, they sent it to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyiv, and after 3 months they answered that everything was OK (roughly speaking, you don’t have to be LO ... ..gullible).

Through our review, we want to inform everyone about this organization and their criminal activities.

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