A jury awarded $20 million to Trish Williams, a former Wyndham timeshare sales representative, who was wrongfully terminated for reporting time share fraud on the elderly by the world’s largest timeshare company.
According to the plaintiff, Trish Williams, who reported back in 2010, that elderly customers were being defrauded by Wyndham salespeople, who were opening and maxing out credit cards without their knowledge and lying about reducing interest rates, maintenance fees and the ability to obtain rental income from their timeshares.
Allegedly, Wyndham employees took part in high pressure sales tactics involving deliberate lies and misrepresentations to get individuals to buy more timeshare "points."
Some practices that employees were involved in included "TAFT" days, which stands for "Tell Them Any F@#*ing Thing" days, in which employees would say anything to make a sale as long as they didn't put it in writing.
The plaintiff also revealed an illegal, industry-wide practice of falsely representing that if owners spend enough money, Wyndham would buy back the timeshare at full value at the owner’s request.
