ORLANDO, Fla., July 14 (UPI) — Computers and other equipment were confiscated during a raid on a time-share and credit-assistance telemarketing firm, Orlando, Fla., police said.
Officials said H.E.S. Systems was defrauding people by falsely claiming it could lower credit card interest rates and also ran a time-share scam, the Orlando Sentinel reported Wednesday.
During the raid, members of the police SWAT team held employees at gunpoint while confiscating the equipment, the newspaper reported.
No arrests were made although some employees were detained. Some workers said police took cell phones along with other electronic equipment.
Since January, 20 raids have been conducted on the company, resulting in the seizure of $500,000, vehicles and other property, police spokesman Sgt. Jim Young said.
Twenty of the H.E.S. Systems employees are Orange County work-release inmates, corrections spokesman Allen Moore said. The company passed a background check and no problems were reported in the year it was authorized to hire people in work release, he said.
As of Wednesday, H.E.S. Systems is not a program participant, the Sentinel reported.
Police said the company has had several iterations, none operating as a legitimate business.
“They’re taking money and giving nothing for it,” Young said. “They’re just purely scamming them.”
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