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 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:08 am Subject: A Real Loan Company? |
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I am trying to get out of debt esp. with some PDL's and thought I might get a small loan....maybe not so small? But I went online and applied with a company called Empire Direct Lending. They are supposed to be i MN? I received a call that I had been accepted for the amount I applied for, but have to Western Union collect them $1000 for the insurance. I also have to send them a paycheck amount, my license and SS... the acceptance letter is from NY. I checked them out online and cannot find a thing that supports their validity, nor can I find a phone at either location.
I am thinking this is a scam.
Has anyone heard of them? Or been taken by them?
Thanks in advance.
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egyptcrossarabs
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Do not do this. Any loan company that asks for money upfront is a SCAM. they will take your money and you will never hear from them again. this has happened time and time again to members here.
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kashzan
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:16 am Subject: reply |
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YES,PLEASE DON'T.I JUST READ IN MY LOCAL PAPER
ABOUT A SCAM COMPANY THAT HAD A MT.PROSPECT
ADDRESS.THEY ALL ARE SCAMS.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:48 am Subject: |
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I was almost stupid enough to believe them. I filed a complaint on them with the BBBand another gov. agency....
Their online site is very persausive and looks to be authentic? Nice long thing about how you are more than your credit score, etc.
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egyptcrossarabs
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:54 am Subject: reply |
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THEY ARE ALL LIKE THAT.GLAD YOU DIDN'T FALL FOR IT,AND GLAD WE HELPED.  
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paulmergel
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:34 am Subject: |
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Rule of thumb...if have to pay before getting the loan, it is a scam. Did you have to give them you SS# and stuff like that? If so, watch everything very carefully since they have all your information.
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No thankfully....but I found a message on my phone yesterday that they were trying to call. Wondered why I had not called and confirmed my loan or faxed them the info. they asked for?
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Good, glad to hear that. If nothing else, just let them know that you have decided not to get the loan or just ignore them but bad part on that, they might just keep calling and bugging you.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:59 am Subject: Subject to your advert!!! |
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It is very nice of you not to fall prey just the way i was being scammed last year and i lost $20 000 to them.
Thank God I got this firm that gave me loan with low interest rate.
please do not fall to this firm they scammed me E-mail id removed as per forum rules. - Jason
And this firm helped me E-mail id removed as per forum rules. - Jason and if are real you can contact them if you wish.
This my email:E-mail id removed as per forum rules. - Jason
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Did some checking and did not find anything under Fox Peterson Equity Loans, Agency or Lending firm. When I went to the BBB, I found 166 Mortgage brokes all of them Alethes LLC in Texas. 2 Advance Fee brokers: Bruce Lending (not lot of Alethes seems to have different address, is a member of the BBB and seems to only show 2 complaints. I did sparatic looks at the company on different pages for this one and they all seem to say the same thing. They have been a memeber of the BBB since 2002. There are 2 Advance Fee Brokers: Bruce Lending Firm. (not a lot of info, 4 complaints. all 4 closed due to no response) and Priority Lending Firm (address false, unsatisfactory record), There are 6 Law Firms and 1 is with the BBB, There are 8 under Advertising Firms and Counsoling (these appear to be work from home schemes. BBB has note at top of each inquiry that says would like to speak to you about inquiry and then warning about work from home scams.), 4 under Auto Repair and Service, 1 under Construction Service, 1 under Consumer Financial & Loan Company (Guess where this is...British Columbia and they did not respond to the BBB to set up a file and the letter from the BBB was returned!!!), 1 under Financial Services (they are in PA but have an unsatisfactory record.) There are a few other catagories in there, but to me...this does not sound legit. There is nothing with the specific name Fox Peterson.
Just want to say is be careful!!!! I feel a scam here or something related to PDLs.
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That was me with all the info. My session timed out before I could get all the information looked up!
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Ok, I did want to add when I did a search for this company, I came up with 2 things, but they both were message boards. There was some Bank of America stuff at the bottom of them, but I just don't buy this. This Rev whoever they are and this Vicki whomever seem to be pushing this awful hard and if you read the posts, they both seem to be repeating themselves and you can read almost exactly the same thing this Vicki person posted here on the msg board for this so called loan company. I just want to tell people to be careful. If is sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I just don't have a good feeling about this and you know, anyone can put Rev. in front of their name to make people think that they are speaking the truth. BE CAREFULL!!!!!!!
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did you try contacting them how did you know that they are fake?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:18 am Subject: reply |
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because,anyone who asks for upfront money is more than likely a scam or fake.
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Rev ~ I guess maybe the first hint that this may be a scam is how much it has been pushed on here by you and whomever this other person is. 2nd, the address was a yahoo address I believe and most businesses do not have yahoo addresses and the fact that there is no information about them anywhere, address, etc. When I do a BBB search with the information that was provided, I find what I had listed above. Some of those business do not seem to be legit. If you are indeed legit, as you say you are, and you are satisfied with the "loan" that you got, great, I am happy for you, but here we are trying to help people make good decisions and help them get out of debt, not get more into it and to help them from being scammed or being taken advantage of. Too many "scammers" come on here because of people sounding desperate and say they can help and all it does is make things worse. As stated, if you are a "legit" person, (using your words), then you are welcome to stay and post, but we ask that you do not post any more about getting a loan from those people. If you are not legit or a scammer trying to take advatage of people, then just go away.
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