this place is a scam!!! do not trust them!!…read more
"tracy" from "Auto Accident Recovery" called me and left a voicemail to schedule an "accident injury evaluation" after my car crash last week.
i called back the number (425-458-1754) immediately and was connected to a Chelsea, who said that the person who had just called me must have been Miriam. she offered the same accident injury evaluation, and she mentioned it's free.
i was very confused; this has never happened to me before, and i've had three car crashes in total. i asked her if this was an insurance thing (i have progressive), and she said no, it's a public service. this most recent car crash was with a public bus, so i wondered if it was a service offered by the state, which would be very nice but also was somewhat doubtful, considering we don't have public health insurance in america. i told her that i didn't have any injuries and my insurance had recently told me that no bus passenger had reported any injuries, so i didn't think this was necessary, and she pushed for me to get evaluated by a professional rather than self-diagnosing. she scheduled me for an evaluation for next week in their Bellevue location, and when i asked for their location, she said she'd text me the details. this also sounded a little weird to me, since i'm used to email confirmations.
when i finally got the text, the clinic location was this one, Create Wellness Center in Bellevue with Dr. Kim. this was confusing to me, bc this name was not Auto Accident Recovery. when i tried to look up Auto Accident Recovery, the very first result was a reddit thread saying they had also gotten a cold call from this organization, and everyone underneath said it was a scam.
the second search result was a place called Accident Care Chiropractic that listed a bunch of cities near me but not Bellevue. there was also no Kim on their team
when i looked up Create Wellness Center, i found this yelp page with several reviews talking about a Chinese worker. Kim is a Korean last name. First, I thought people were just being ignorant, but after several reviews really seemed to corroborate that the worker is Chinese, and after finding some mentions of acupuncture, i wondered if it actually is a Chinese place
i also found a website saying that Create Wellness Center recently started working with Accident Care Chiropractic. then there were appointment spots open to book for only Dr. Sean Kim in the locations listed on the Accident Care Chiropractic website, but this time also including Bellevue.
i was pretty confused, but i supposed it could have been that Kim is a new member of the team and Bellevue is a new location, and the information online is not updated, and Kim is the only one with open availability.
i also found a facebook page for Create Wellness Center (Bellevue) that has very few followers and post very frequently with absolutely no comments on any posts. the phone number was not the one that called me, and it was also a different phone number than the one listed at the end of every single post.
i was confused, so i called the number that called me--and it had been totally disconnected.
very fishy!!! unfortunately, apparently, i can't report a business on yelp, and i know that business owners can report reviews, so this one might be pulled down by these scammers! i also could only put in a general facebook page report, and i couldn't report the listing on google, so!! these people are probably going to get away with this scam, which totally sucks!!