BBB Warns of Magazine Scam

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - "You just want to believe the best of somebody and you want to help however you can," said Jennifer Weaks.

Showing that kind of generosity to strangers is what Weaks says, got her burned.

"Even on the little receipt she wrote God bless. I mean you know this sweet little thing," she said.

Weaks says she paid a door to door salesperson with Greater Image Inc. $52 for 1 magazine subscription after falling for her tall tale.

"She talked about how this company helped her get off welfare. She had four kids. I mean it was a real sweet story," said Weaks.

Weaks says that sweet story turned into a rip off 120 days later when her magazines never arrived and she couldn't get answers from the company's delivery service line.

"Whomever's mailbox it was kept saying full, again and again. Always the same thing and they cashed my check within a week," she said.

"We send complaints to the company, they don't respond. We really don't know where they are," said Randy Hutchinson, President of the Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South.

Greater Image Inc. says it's located on Chulahoma Road in Holly Springs, Mississippi. We checked it out and found no business, just a field and trailors.

"We've had different addresses over the years and again, this is the second name we've tracked the company and it's principals under," said Hutchinson.

According to the Better Business Bureau, Greater Image Inc. is formerly Youth Solutions Inc. In 2006 the State of Mississippi fined them $10,000 and ordered them to cease and desist for not being registered as a charity and acting like one. The BBB says right now there are 74 complaints under the company's new name which stretches 15 states.

"They must be hiring crews and taking kids to all these different states," said Hutchinson.

Weaks says what makes her so infuriated is they didn't just hit her house once. They hit it twice in 6 months.

"My husband is the kind of person that says no to that sort of thing always. He won't even really hear what anybody has to say and yet they got him to buy a subscription," said Weaks.