From
theIowaChannel.com
A Texas company is banned from doing business in Iowa and must refund a Fairfield woman more than $100,000.
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said Coupon Connection of America used direct mail solicitations and pressured Mayumi Koide into spending more than $100,000 with the company.
Authorities say the company promotes an easy, million-dollar opportunity selling grocery coupon books.
"Once they got her in, they kept rolling her on the phone, pushing high pressure sales promises," Miller said.
Koide (pictured, right) told KCCI's Chris Nagus that she bought into the program thinking it would bring high returns. She said she was excited about a job she could do from home.
"They [spoke] like they knew me a long time, so this might work, that was my thought," Koide said.
Koide had read several success stories supplied by Coupon Connection of America.
The attorney general said his office contacted several people who provided those testimonials, and that some admitted they were false.
Koide was the only known victim of the company in Iowa, however, the Consumer Protection Division uncovered similar situations in at least seven other states.
The company's owner, Don Farmer, said Koide has been refunded all of her money. He said he has at least 20 documents Koide signed that say the company does not guarantee any money.
Coupon Connection of America Scam Alert
