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BEWARE:** BOARD Towing OF DIRECTORS Scam**
Member
Over the past serveral
**ANNOUNCEMENT**
months there has been time the operator said the
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reporting
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online
per
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the
sounds
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innocent
s By-Laws,
and you
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to
started
help
apprenticing as a motor in an easy-to-use PDF format.
the
directors
caller,
shall
as most
be elected
people
each
would
year
like
by
to do
mechanic
for their
is 1975.
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ou get
received
a call
his
from a supposed
Chapters
relay operator (assisting
potential
written ballot
customers.
after nomination. Each license in 1978 and
the
began
deaf)
working
and the
on
caller requests
About
your
ATRA
email address to
Director holds office for a term of (3) transmissions at that time.
communicate
In 1985, Scott
with you directly
Membership
. It happened
Categories
to me and the
Why
three years
is this
commencing
a scam?
on January began working at an
email
ATRA
addr
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ess resembled a spammers
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.
arranty
When I
Program
1st of the year next following such shop, and except for 16 months at an Technical & Management Training
Directors
The purpose
election.
of the phone call is they
Aamco
give you
shop
a
requested ID info, the caller hung up. That was my version.
where he completed his ATRA Events
credit
Areas
card
1,
number
3 and 8
and
were
ask
up
you
for elec
to char
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ge
Master
a sum
Rebuilder
of
There simply are no depths to which this scum will not
Training, he has been Publications
money
tion this
on
past
their
year
card
and
for
following
the towing
are
company
with A
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descend to. Keep your eyes open!”
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Nationwide
& Certification
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the
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results
our shop
for
would
each of
then
the
be
areas
expected
and
to
Parkland
take your
in 1991 and in 1998 three Volunteer Opportunities
own brief money biography and of send the it newly to the elected phony towing of the companybuilders . bought
“What
out
happened
the former
with us was
Service
a call fr
Discounts
om a relay operator
members.
Your credit card processor then calls
owner
you to
and
inform
have been
and the
partner
person
s ever
had an uncle in New York whose vehicle
you that the credit card you charged from
since.
the
caller
Scott has been
was
involved
not working
in every
and they New wanted Memberto tow it all shipthe way to
was a stolen card and the charges are reversed
facet of
on
a transmission
our
shop
shop
from
in Abilene!
R&R
He was going to give me a credit
your merchant account.
to Managing. He was
card
involved
to charge
with
Community
$1,000.00 to and then when the Uncle got
Ar
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ea
have
1:
now
Souther
sent “good”
n
money to
the
a company
Transgo research
her
team,
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and
would
is now
take care
of the
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r
the
est.
new
I simply
said we are
and
Calif
are
or
not
nia,
able to
Ne
recover
vada
currently involved with the Sonnax
your funds.
unable to do that and hung
Members
up. They
Comm-
tried a similar thing
Task Force.
You’ve been scammed!
with a florist shop and our
unity
BBB
, you
sent
will
out
be
warnings to all
and Hawaii
local business.”
able to:
Donny Caccamise – is the
Area 8: TN, KY, VA,
Emi Chavira, Big Country Transmission
There are many scams that take place daily and
• Choose your billing options for
good
owner
people
and
end
operator
up at a loss
of DMC
without their
WV
hard
, OH,
earned
MD,
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got a
NJ
relay
, DC
call
for "the transmission
membership
in
dues
my
AND
Uncles
pay online
money
Transmissions
.
in Ventura,
Jim Currier – is
Toyota
the owner
Camry failed
of
and
•
he
Request
left it to
and
get fixed.
print your
Can
invoice
you
ATRA Members have been aware of this scam
charge my card $2500.00 and
online
go to
or
W
via
estern
email
California.
Jim & Sons Transmission in
Union and
since early on in its development. The members have send all but $500.00 back
•
so
Chat
I can
online
pay the
with
towing
other
company
members
taken
He
advantage
has been involved
of their membership
in the trans-
benefits
Cuyahoga
to
Falls, herOH. e in NY to tow the car to you
through
in Or
the
egon."
ATRA
I
told
website
the relay
discuss
mission
issues
industry
such
since
as
birth.
these
His
that
father
they face in their
operator it was a scam.
•
He said
Update
they
membership
hung up.”
profiles includ-
owned the shop, taught automotive He got his start in the transmission ing employee information
shops
technology
on the
and
ATRA
passed
Member
his knowledge
What’s Working
Jason Faust, Bradshaw's Transmission Annex
business in 1960 at the age of 5 years • Online event registration
discussion
down to Donny
forum,
. Donny
a forum
prides
dedicated
himself
for
old,
ATRA
working for his father by sweeping • Shop in the ATRA BookStore
Members.
Then the member shared an email he had received an hour
on operating a clean, honest shop and the floors and running
later
for
only
coffee.
to find
Jim
out that another
online
member received the
operates a full-service facility that also officially started in 1973
exact
after
same
graduat-
email!
• Communicate with your local chap-
Here provides are drive some train solutions of the for discussionsclas- ing from high school. At that time, ters in a group forum environment
relating
sics and customs.
to this topic from ATRA
he started from the
Thanks
bottom and
to the
soon
discussions on the forum, ATRA
Members on the What’s Working
worked
Forum:
his way completely through
The new ATRA Member commu-
the shop ranks to the
Members
current position
have
as
been
nity
able
will
to
launch
avoid
on
this
February
scam
1st,
in
2010
“I receive a phone call this morning from an operator for
the deaf, they wanted a car transmission repair
Shop
and
Owner
wanted
. He is currently
their business.
a second-
allowing all members all aspects of
to give me a credit card over the phone for a
generation
thousand
owner and has two sons
account maintenance including group
dollars, he said it was for his mother's car. I
working
informed
in
the
the business
If you
as well.
would
Jim’
like
s
more
participations,
information
chat participations,
on ATRA
pro-
operator that I would not take a credit card
shop
number
has
until
sevente
I
en bays
Membership,
and a total of
file updates including editing shop
visit our website at
was able to see the vehicle and diagnose it pr
ten
operly
employees.
employees and paying membership
. At that
www.atra.com/membership
dues online.
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