I have been lied to by this company. First off I was told that it would only cost me a flat rate fee

25th of Jan, 2010 by User258631

I have been lied to by this company. First off I was told that it would only cost me a flat rate fee of 2,500.00 dollars and now that I've been formally Ripped off for $6,300.00 over the last 20 months and I have had no resolution to my tax matters to date which in the beginning I was told was an open and shut case and that at the most it would take 3 months to clear this matter up and reach an Offer In Compromise. After I paid them the last 1500.00 dollars that they sprung on me out of the blue and then took them nearly 2 months to send me a statement of services which I requested when they said that I had used up my retainer, I did eventually receive a typed out billing sent to my email that is so overly inflated that its actually quite funny in the sense that my phone records do not match theirs with their claims that they have kept in constant contact with me as well as the IRS. Unfortunately for Clear Creek Consulting I can find no one at the IRS that is involved or has been involved with my case that has had any contact with Clear Creek Consulting on my behalf and they make the claim that they helped me get into uncollectible status to which the IRS claims that I was placed in uncollectible status months before when I had filled bankruptcy with another sleazy firm of tax know-it-alls. I've been going over the Internet and the Colorado Better Business Bureau for the last several months and I have come across some things about Clear Creek Consulting that makes my blood boil and my skin crawl. I have read the other scam Reports about this company as well as the company rebuttals against these complaints. Mr. Brian Cope (who is never in the office to be contacted but seems to keep quit busy defending Clear Creek on these boards) has had the audacity to reply to these other consumer complaints as if they are all liars and incompetents. Well, Mr. Cope unfortunately for you, I am neither a liar nor am I incompetent. Over the course of my investigations through the BBB of Colorado, the internet and even Myspace I have learned that Clear Creek Consulting clearly misrepresents their firm and this is by admission of their own company employees. Clear Creek States that their employees are highly skilled and that every employee is fully screened but for the life of me I cannot understand that how a high school graduate can be a “Senior Tax Consultant” and that a “Family Law Attorney” qualifies as a Tax Attorney. And furthermore I honestly cannot understand how a company that handles the most sensitive of personal material and information can hire felons to handle this type of sensitive and personal consumer information with good faith. Of course I did my homework as Mr. Cope stated within one of his rebuttal postings and I am going to post here my homework findings and welcome Mr. Cope and Clear Creek Consulting to try and wiggle their way out of the Muddy Creek of Consumer Complaints. 1. A BBB accredited business. When I signed on with Clear Creek Consulting, Inc. They had a BBB rating of A- and currently they are standing at a C+ rating. This can be found here along with their history of officially filed consumer complaints http://www.bbb.org/denver/business-reviews/taxes-consultants-and-representatives/clear-creek-consulting-inc-in-westminster-co-1010081 Scroll down the page for the listing of complaints and those complaints that have been resolved. 2. Consumer Complaint Board found here I encourage any of you who are reading this to scroll down on this page and read the posting by a KYBOGGS whom states that they are a current employee of CCC and whom seems to clearly not deny the fact that Clear Creek has and does hire felons as well as this employee clearly stating that someone at the company misused a clients personal information for personal gain. I will say though to Clear Creek Consulting credit that this employee does state that the matter was rectified and the said employee was terminated. Of course I am still wondering where the employment screening process was and why if it is so stringent how it failed to protect the consumer in this instance? 3. The numerous complaints filed through this board most of them which can be read here http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/355/RipOff0355064.htm#359525 4. Another complaint on MSN Money was found here http://boards.live.com/thread.aspx?ThreadId=1021921&BoardName=Hide&header=SearchOnly&Footer=Show&BoardsParam=PostID%3D28069906&LinkTarget=_parent&pagestyle=money1&ForumId=18 which is posting 6 and 7 placed by an entity known as “Taxed”. 5. Yes, I saved the very best for the last one... Go to Myspace and type in Clear Creek Consulting and search people and take a look at some of their “Senior tax consultants” better yet since it's on Myspace and now considered public domain I shall do the work for you and give you their links. http://www.myspace.com/296218366 Junior Consultant (High School Diploma) http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=129854543 Occupation listed-Senior tax consultant (High School Diploma) http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=31776975 Occupation listed as Senior Associate Taxes In the end I am just curious how an attorney that is not a tax attorney but licensed as a family practice attorney in Missouri can practice tax law and therefore be represented as a “Tax Attorney” in good faith? And, is there no prerequisites for being a tax consultants? Or even Senior Tax Consultants without some further training such a business school or college or even tax courses through the IRS? Let's just say that I'm curious and of course I do wait with abated breath for Mr. Cope's reply. On another issue for Mr. Cope have you not violated client privilege in your rebuttal post to a Mr. T. Kevorkian (the posting and rebuttal can be found here http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/410/RipOff0410837.htm ) by publicly stating his tax issue online for all the world to see. I am sure that in some way Mr. Gevorkyan has rights to privacy and it would seem that in your arrogance as well as your ignorance you just publicly violated his right to privacy not to mention you have just proved to me and perhaps to everyone else that will read this that neither you or Clear Creek Consulting have any scruples or business ethics regarding the consumer. Now that I've done my homework I do wish that Mr. Cope and his overly sleazy firm would just do the right thing and refund my 6,300.00 dollars but I highly doubt that I will ever see that money again without taking further matters to which I am in the process of completing. My next letter is to the Colorado Attorney General and Bar Association as well as the Missouri Bar to file formal complaints. I am sending all my findings to the BBB of Colorado with my formal complaint then on to the FBI with all these findings. I also plan to contact the Colorado Drug Enforcement Task Unit to see if they can investigate these allegations of illicit drug use and find out if such behavior is true among their employees. In the end I'm just sick and tired of being ripped off.
Did someone say something about Class Action? I'm game. Anyone else? Just for fun more consumer complaints about Clear Creek Consulting, Inc.
http://whocalled.us/lookup/3034261075 Sickntired
Greensboro, Pennsylvania U.S.A.

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