First Annuity Leads

by **scaesar** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:41 pm

Anyone ever hear of First Annuity Leads? If so, have the leads and appointments been qualified and worthwhile?

by **dsnellen** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:08 pm

Don't know about First Annuity, but the company 321Annuity of Venice, CA is a total scam. They promise you qualified leads and fail to deliver. The promise is 3-4 qualified leads/week in which they set the appointments for you. Sales pitch is convincing and the one reference checked out. So $1,250 later for 20 leads turned into 4 'leads' in six weeks which had no idea why I was knocking on their door.

I did some checking and the 321Annuity Vence, CA address is really a Postal Center and the Suite is actually a box number. So what you are led to believe is a real address is nothing more than a POB. Plus the 877 telephone number is never answered and they call you with a blocked number. I spoke with a detective and come to find out this is very common. Go figure. First Annuity, 321 Annuity and a number of other annuity lead companies could easily be one and the same. The man who calls himself Jim Reid, could easily have dozens of alaises, company names, Web sites and POBs scattered all over CA racking in thousands of dollars a day/week. And the sad part is that there is little to prevent it. The cops are overworked and consumer fraud is not high on their list. So long story short, assume any lead company is a total scam until proven otherwise.

Ways you can investigate is type the address into Google and see who else uses the same address. Also use Google maps and steet level view to actually see the building that is their 'office'. You can check references but these could easily be their partners.