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Country United States
Victim Location LA 70461, USA
Total money lost $19
Type of a scam Online Purchase
Country United States
Victim Location LA 70037, USA
Total money lost $25
Type of a scam Online Purchase
Scammer's address [email protected]
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location LA 70003, USA
Total money lost $150
Type of a scam Online Purchase
Total money lost $220
Type of a scam Online Purchase
Country United States
Victim Location NJ 08723, USA
Total money lost $45
Type of a scam Online Purchase
The following day (June 2) I noticed that the promotional discount had not ended and that the new deadline was that night. The day after that, I checked the website again and found that the deadline had been changed again, to that night.
About two weeks before the event was to occur, I received an email from staff at the baseball stadium. They said that this event was not on their calendar and that the event organizers had failed to respond to the staff's attempts to contact them for multiple weeks. In the time between when I purchased the registrations and when I received this email, I hadn't been contacted by the event organizers even once.
My wife and I reached out to our bank (the one whose debit card I had used to purchase the registrations) and were able to get our money refunded by them. I do not know if the bank succeeded or even attempted to track down the people we paid.
Indeed today, six months later, this supposed run still has yet to be rescheduled, and the website claims that the promotional discount has still not ended (but that tomorrow the prices go up to normal).
1) The website is clearly designed to manipulate the viewer into buying "now" to avoid paying a higher fee even though the higher fee deadline will never arrive.
2) The people collecting the money claim to be a company called "We Do Reality Inc." (according to the privacy statement on the website). Google searches for information about this company yield absolutely no information.
3) The supposed company has a Twitter handle (@colorbuzz5k) that has not been active since August of 2016. When it was active, the account would respond to concerns with a request to send the concerns in an email. Nobody I know personally who has sent emails to the address given has received a reply.
It should be noted that even though the Twitter account appears abandoned, Consumer Affairs Victoria (of Victoria, Australia) mentioned on their own Twitter account (@consumervic) that a Color BUZZ run scheduled for just this past Saturday was looking like a scam, referencing an article from an Australian news outlet called The Age (article link is http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbourne-runners-fear-color-buzz-charity-even...⇄ ). The article outlines the same circumstances occurring: no contact from organizers, venue staff claiming that no such event is on their calendar, etc. The article even claims that the Color Buzz website is promising a portion of the proceeds to a local charity that doesn't exist anywhere in the country.
This organization is still ripping people off left and right, and now internationally. They are preying on people who are just trying to have a good time, by offering the promise of an event similar to many legitimate social gatherings organized by legitimate companies.
I appreciate that the ScamPulse.com is here to collect reports of this nature, but I don't know if these reports are being used to prompt an investigation since the scam is still going strong.
Scammer's address 500 Speedway BLVD, Joliet, IL 60433, USA
Country United States
Victim Location IL 60185, USA
Total money lost $99
Type of a scam Other
Scammer's address 625 W DEER VALLEY RD, Suite 103-418, Phoenix, AZ 85027, USA
Scammer's email [email protected]
Victim Location NJ 07712, USA
Total money lost $20
Type of a scam Other
Scammer's address 625 W DEER VALLEY RD, Suite 103-418, Phoenix, AZ 85027, USA
Scammer's email [email protected]
Victim Location IL 60185, USA
Total money lost $40
Type of a scam Online Purchase
reschedule run 8/27/16 cancelled due to "packet supply chain" with no reschedule date
Total money lost $39
Type of a scam Online Purchase