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Scammer's website www.purco.com
Scammer's address 20777 Frontage Rd, Belgrade, MT 59714, USA
Country United States
Victim Location NY 12065, USA
Type of a scam Other
I believe this is a scam involving Yellowstone Rent a Car and PurCo that they pull on tourists. The rental company is obviously trying to collect on non-existent damages. I believe that they are trying to scam both myself and my credit card company.
I found out that PurCo Fleet Services already has an "F" Rating from the ScamPulse.com with many complaints. Yellowstone Rent a Car must fall into this category also.
Scammer's website purco.com
Scammer's address 136 S Main St, Spanish Fork, UT 84660, USA
Country United States
Victim Location AZ 85340, USA
Type of a scam Other
I had a legitimate rental car claim (I was the victim of a car jacking and the driver side window was broken by the police when arresting the suspects with the vehicle less than 18 hours after the incident). The rental car company hired Purco to handle charges for the damages.
The name PurCo Fleet Management Services is misleading and deceptive. Purco is a collections agency.
Purco tried to charge me for rental days/loss of use when the rental car company already had.
Then Purco tried to charge me for parts my insurance company had already settled with Purco over.
Then Purco tried to charge me a Supplement fee of $504.45 without any explanation of what that is.
As well as an $500 admin fee, as though the rental car company did not hire them to collect damages on their behalf.
In yet another way Purco was being untrustworthy and not transparent, there's an appraisal fee and value listed on the charges, but no document to support those numbers are legitimate, and no reference I can take to the DMV to obtain a copy of to verify it is even the correct information or hasn't been altered. In fact, the description of the charge is "DV" appraisal as opposed to "DMV" appraisal, indicating it is possible PurCo conducted an appraisal themselves that is called "DV Appraisal" or hired a shell company with the initials DV to conduct the appraisal rather than obtaining an impartial appraisal.
It would not be unreasonable at this point in my experience to suspect deception.
When I tried to make a good faith payment online, their fraudulent and misleading payment system requested access to the entire contents of my bank account with unlimited withdrawl access.
So at that point I was alerted this was a scam and alerted my bank.
I don't know enough about insurance fraud to know why PurCo is doing this, but when I sent them my first check in the mail (the only way to make a good faith payment while disputing the total amount) they didn't cash it and said they never received it (to be fair, I sent it from Jamaica during a high holy holiday there with weather so turbulent I was stuck in Miami overnight both ways, a lot of things could have gone wrong there, I can give the benefit of the doubt), and PurCo didn't cash my second check covering the insurance deductible with a tracking number, that they have received.
I would have reported PurCo to the police for being a scammer if the insurance company hadn't dealt with PurCo as legitimate.
I did a quick google search of their name with the word scam.
Supreme court case battle over loss of use, something they initially tried to charge me for but then realized I had already settled with the rental car company.
New York times expose about their unethical business. Ads to "stop collections companies from harassing you". Requests from lawyer message boards asking for help from PurCos predatory and unethical business. There's pages of discussion of Pilot Talk, a group of people I respect and trust (with my life several times a week). All things to be expected from a collections agency.
I noticed it was kind of odd that the only business connection another collections agency and a shaved ice stand that does not appear to be an actual business but a money laundering operation or shell company as there are no yelp reviews, and it's not listed in the yellow pages or on google maps as a place.
So I searched the name listed on ScamPulse.com on Buzzfile, and it turns out there are 5 businesses at that location, the three ScamPulse.com knows about, and has listed $4.2 million in annual revenues, and employs approximately 40 people at this single location for PurCo, PurInspect, Subrogation Division, the Hawaiian Shaved Ice place that does not exist, and one more I can't figure out. It seems like they scam people out of millions of dollars a year on the back of legitimate claims.