Warn your clients today about this Tax Reassessment SCAM!
Published by Scott Gill under General.
Anyone can be scammed; and although I have a pretty good nose for these things, I almost got caught by this one.
A very official notice was mailed to me late last week that indicated that I could save $2,706.28 in property taxes by requesting that my property be reassessed due to its decline in valuation. The letter has very specific details on my home including the Assessors ID Number. It goes on to say that they will handle all the filings with the County Assessors offices for me for only $179.00 service fee. Further, if the reassessment wasn’t granted they would refund the fee. It seemed like a very inexpensive way to get this done. Who has time filing papers? Just as I was ready to write a check, I paused for a moment and decided to research this on Google. I found out that this is a scam. A great article was written on this particular scam by Broderick Perkins (Examiner.com).
Scott Gill
Senior Vice President
Scott.Gill@rwnc.net
Excellent post by Scott!Since most of these scams are from Southern California the County of Los Angeles Assessor’s office also have this SCAM ALERT on their website. click on the link below to see:
http://assessor.lacounty.gov/extranet/list/newsList.aspx?newsid=89
Greg.
We have recently received letters like this in northern california, san francisco area as well. they send us letters from a PO box number and promise to get out property tax lowered for a fee.
The address from where the letters come is PO BOX 25519, Los Angeles, CA. Be aware
[...] Warn your clients today about this Tax Reassessment SCAM! [...]
It appened to me already, I sent the check
on 04/10/09 for the amount of $186.00 and yestarday 05/05/09 samebody told me about this fraud.
Is there any way taht i can get my money back and to help other people?
Thank You!!