Shaw Academy - Reviews and experiences

It is a scram. It stole me $220. I did not even know my subscription. Please dont sign up

SCAM SCAM SCAM
Stay away from this company.
They will debit your account without authorization and keep on doing so even after you close account!
STAY AWAY

NEVER sign up even for free trial. Even if you cancel, they will charge you anyway saying that you reactivated the subscription

They stoled my money too.... :(((
Why I hadn't been googled it before I subscribed!

A scam!

..read some reviews. decided not to! happy for trusting those negative reviews, this scumbags are calling now daily from multiple numbers in order to close the deal and make me pay for their service - although i'm rejecting the call they will call again and again (both uk and us phone numbers). this is totally unprofessional and annoying but thanks God for the "block contact" option.

This place is a big scam. Most if not all of the positive reviews are fake.
I started an application, found out it was a scam, and immediately stopped. I hadn't put in my card details. I ended my login account with them and retried my email afterward, I could not gain access, so I assumed the account was deleted. I hadn't applied for any courses.
I receive calls every week telling me if I don't sign up they will continue E-mailing me and ringing me. I told them I did not apply, which I haven't. I blocked most of the numbers, but they seem to use additional numbers, suggesting they either have a lot of people working for them or they have burner sim cards.
They did say after a phone call that they would email me. around five minutes after I put the phone down a fake DPD email came through with hidden links in the email, I found them by highlighting all the text.
Unfortunately, for these scammers, the individual from this organization, who emailed me, left a linked email with the DPD email which contained his lovely home address down to the door number in Cardiff and his full name along with his phone number. Clearly, they don't know how to cover their tracks very well.
I have given all these details to my friends in the relevant authorities.

biggest scam, they promote free trial and charge you instantly, never trust these scammers! false advertising

I am one among the thousands of SHAW ACADEMY(SCAM ACADEMY) victim. I joined for 4 week trial course, a week later an agent called and told me about a promotion, and agreed to send email about the details. Well next email i got is from my bank that i was charged 279.95cad. Tried to contact them multiple times via emails, all i was getting was -"We will get back to you in 48hrs". After putting a review here, they did reply to emailing thier billing department. Here is the update.


Veon (Shaw Academy)

Jan 17, 2021, 19:34 GMT

Hi Nithin,

Will call you tomorrow morning 10EST as per your last email.

Have a nice day.

Regards,
Veon
We would like to request that you do not raise multiple reviews, tickets or email multiple email address. As we have to read every single one of them, it will inadvertently slow us down and prevents us from handling the queries in a prompt and accurate manner. This has also a large impact on other customers looking to get support as we cannot get to them. We hope that you understand our intention is to be as prompt and professional as possible and it is for those reasons that we share this information and ask you to inform others of this.


Veon was more than happy to provide lifetime membership than to return my money. Who are these guys to force things on us??? I didnt ask for premium membership!!! You forced it on me and charged me without my consent.If someone is reading my review. I am sorry that maybe you are reading this after you got scammed too. SCAM ACAMEDY have been doing their shameless scams for a long time now. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Only way to fight them is legally. Thats by closing them down and thats when each of them who are part of this is arrested.

Shaw Academy is the perfect example of how shameless and scandalous someone can be. Sign up for free trail of 4 week course... thats all i wanted. Unfortunately i gave them my credit card detail for sogning in. Like a week later, they took 300cad from me without my consent- jjst like that!!!!!. This is a hard time. People are jobless and struggling due to pandemic. People working behind SHAW ACADEMY, I had never seen any heartless cruel people like you guys. Agent was calling me to give info rwgarding a promotion. My question is. IF YOUR SCAMMER AGENT CALLS ME, DOES THAT MEAN SHE CAN CHARGE ME!! WITHOUT MY CONSENT???. I did put a review in trustpilot... SHAW ACADEMY replied though to email them . But no response after that. Iam still getting email for missing my class though. I hope that everyone behind this company will pay for what they are doing to thousands of people.

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM

They its really hard to cancel the free trial, you cant do on your accout, they dont do if you send an email, and the line always drop if you call. i managed to cancel with my paypal account before being charged.

Negative There have got a lot of hidden charges and obviously scammers please don’t trust them

DO NOT TRUST THIS COMPANY.

If I could give them zero stars I would. They get you to sign up to a free trial then without any kind of sufficient written warning the put you on the most expensive plan and charge you. They make it extremely difficult to cancel your account and keep asking you to pause it in the hope they can CATCH YOU OUT and TAKE YOUR MONEY again. After I paused mine enough times and finally went to get to the last screen to cancel (which I have now found out would've only contained a number to call, where you wait to speak to an operator, after finally jumping through all the hoops a few days ago) they offered me a free trial then CHARGED ME WHILST I WAS ON A FREE TRIAL which I only took because I was tired of clicking through screens! When contacted about this issue I was told the operator couldn't do anything about it and that I had to email billings. I had to get her to repeat herself because the phone line was so quiet! Billings has not got back to me however I have received an email saying that my "request" has been closed with no mention of my dispute over the £49.99 they took from me at all. They've just finally cancelled my account. I will be disputing further.

PLEASE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR BANK DETAILS.

Called to cancel membership before 4 week period. I was still charged for the fee and only given £25 refund after a lot of back and fourth. My partner was falsely charged for a 'toolkit' which did not show it was chargeable until you scroll to the bottom of the page. This company then offered her 3 months free however the course content is not finished and she is only half way through the course and still being charged £50 a month. AWFUL company don't waste your money on this con.

I used their offer of a "free" trial, but canceled it a week before it renewed. after you cancel they require you to call a automated phone number where they try to talk you out of it. eventually after minutes of listening to their system and pressing the right buttons to cancel. they confirm your cancelation...

I didn't trust it, and I never got a confirmation of cancelation, so i reached out to customer service. I wait to this date to hear anything back.

and yes they charged me $60.-

stay away from SCAM ACADEMY

The BEST SCAMMERS ! I am always very careful and I never got caught in a scam in my life. Well, there you go, 100$ in the trash. But it could have been a lot more if I hadn't deactivated my credit card!!
So, what happens is ; you give your card infos to get the 4 week free online course you want. Everything is great. They tell you you can cancel your subscription at any time and that they can even warn you before the deadline! How sweet of them! Then not long after you get an email, or should I say a ton of emails, but one of them in particular has a "Get your materials" button. So you click on it. Nothing happens. Oh well... In another email, there's a "E-certificate" button, so you click on it, nothing happens. How weird ?? Well surprise surprise mofo, I check my bank account app later that night and what do I see ? 2 x 49.99$ charged on my credit card, of course. I write to them saying I have no f*cking idea what this charge is about and that I want a refund, I don't care if I have to cancel my whole subscription, I want a refund, right ? First, they call me. I explain and the guy who barely speaks english (I speak french so even harder to understand a single word) seems very understanding of my situation and seems as if he's going to refund me. I'm glad, but later the same day I get an email from another employee saying that since I now have access to the material and the certificate (actually only the material was available to download), it is not refundable. F*ckin wonderful!
Well that ain't all folks. The next day, I listen to the first class since they are SHOOTING emails at me to do it (I don't have much to say about the class in itself, it's like some wikipedia info on a powerpoint with a boring and not so understandable narration). Anyway, a few hours later, I get a phone call from them saying they are not able to charge me the 69.99$ on my credit card. Oh really ? oh I'm so sorry that you weren't able to steal me properly. It was indeed a good call to deactivate my credit card as I was feeling this wasn't legit. I told him on the phone again that I would like to cancel everything and get a refund for the 2 x 49.99$ that I never agreed to pay. He said sorry, we can't do refunds. lol well brace yourselves, imma write on every single site about those heckin scammers.
On this note, I hope you choke on my 100$ Shaw Academy, cause I ain't getting it back but you're going down.

With great love ????
Burn in hell

Scam scam scam and once again scam... as most of ppl writing review, I have sign on for a free month trial, since then I have been absolutely bombarded with numerous bothering calls, emails texts and all sorts of possible contacts... Really didnt like it, so started researching more about it...found mostly negative opinions, warnings that they charge you after cancelling thr mmebereship. I have cancelled it straightway (have a proof) and surprise surprise been charged £49.99... The case is with the fraud dept of my bank and will stop he payments but absolutely hate thieves and thats all the "so called educational" academy is!!!!!! Never give them your details as they will use your money whether youlike it or not...

After watching terrible content, I cancelled the free trial then one of their representatives phoned me up to suggest a new trial to which I said I would think about it. Fast forward three months later and they took money from my account. They now won't refund me or answer my emails, despite not ever accessing the account after I received the phone call. Absolutely horrendous service.

Shaw Academy SCAM!

Hello!

Promised free training in ads! Upon registration, they ask for the details of the payment instrument, I made it through Paypal. They will later deduct money from your account without your confirmation and refuse to return it!!! Their mail in response to me: Selena (Shaw Academy)
Dec 12, 2020, 18:09 GMT

Hi Kardo,

Thank you for reaching out to us again, considering the difficulty of the situation and we appreciate your patience.

We genuinely do our very best to make students aware when they are signing up, that this is a subscription service.
It is clearly stated on the registration pages, we ensure all students tick the box confirming the Terms and Conditions are understood and accepted.
We ask all our students to insert a payment method which means that we, as a commercial entity, will be paid after the specific upon agreed time has elapsed, from the day the account is created.
We trade payments for our services, as a time specific subscription.

We cannot issue the refund unfortunately as the service has been made available as per the terms and conditions.

As per our previous exchanges, we can at this stage only offer solutions that greatly outweigh the cost of the refund requests. We sincerely hope you can take advantage of our previous proposal.

Thank you very much for your time and understanding.
Kind regards,
Selena

This is a SCAM artist. Do not sign up!! There is NOT a free trial. This company will charge you no matter what and you wont be able to cancel your membership. Read the article from the Guardian, They expose the unethical behaviour of this company. Do not trust them at all.