Advance Fee Loan Scam Conversation with Renee - Part 1

The following is the conversation that I had with Renee who was a victim of advance fee loan scams in the U.S.

The original post and podcast for this discussion was here:
Advance Fee Loan Scams are alive and well

Monty Loree: This is Monty Loree from Canadian Money Adviser and you know it seemed that advance fee loan scams are rearing their heads, well I mean they are rearing their head again but they keep rearing their heads and I have got a guest on. Her name is Renee, and Renee is a victim of advance fee loan scams, hey Renee, how are you doing?

Renee: Good, how are you?

Monty Loree: I am good, thanks. So, yeah your story just concerns me and we don’t a lot with advance fee loan scams back in September, August of last year and I haven’t heard too much I thought we informed the public enough because I wrote enough articles about it and so on but it seems that it’s hasn’t gone away at all, can you tell me about what, what’s happened in your situation?

Renee: On my situation I had got on the computer, I was in need for a not a very large loan, I was looking for $5,000 to $10,000 personal loan and I got on my computer and typed in loan for people with that credit and came across the whole bunch of websites and I probably applied on 4 or 5 different websites on the same day and with in a couple of days I got a phone call back from a company called “City Lending Group” and we are based out of Virginia and everything seems fine, I did the research on city lending group which is a huge lending company in the United States, so I didn’t think anything other the fact over their paper work, I find it and then I was told that I had to pay a fee which they had called that the-what was the term that they used- a good phase payment and any months in advance, and we are instructed that we have to do use “Walmart Moneygram” as the sending facilities and then I will be sending fees would be reimbursed to us and so on. The days out my loan was supposed to be deposited in to my bank account, I then was not getting any return phone calls, the money did not show up in my bank a/c and I try to get on their website and found ripoffreport.com, we would have making me aware of plenty of other victims.

Monty Loree: Okay and when, when was this?

Renee: This started my first application in contact with them started “January 28th of 2008. I was supposed to have my money deposited in my account on February 15th . I have not and at that time is when I found that I was scammed.

Monty Loree: Yes, you didn’t get your money and now you are doing some research so, I guess comparatively it sounds like you have done a whole bunch of research and as far as our Canadian circles here because you are I don’t know if I mentioned by you are out of the states there?

Renee: Yeah,

Monty Loree: So you have done a whole bunch of research and you have also gotten together with other victims of Advance fee Loans Scams”, can you talk about that?

Renee: Your rip off reports, some people leave little identifying trials of themselves and you can contact them calling for information or what not or posting reported on this website and found that you just called, your column up you talk to him and we kind of out pull together to try to have our voices heard by the law enforcement.

Monty Loree: Okay, what happened there?

Renee: Well, the law enforcement is telling us on all agencies FBI secret service, local police you get a laugh because you fell for a scam like this, or they tell you that it is not big enough for them to do an investigation, yeah I lost $4000 and other victim one lost $20,000, another victim lost $15,000 and another was $4707, you name it and that is little as $900 or all the way up to $20,000 from what we have found from other victim.

Monty Loree: Right, yeah.

Renee: We felt together this is the straight on.

Monty Loree: Right absolutely.

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The original post and podcast for this discussion was here:
Advance Fee Loan Scams are alive and well