My husband and I have just been scammed by these criminals!
Very similar to all that has been written on here. We too needed a loan, it was for the amount of $5000.00 and were told it would be 5% interest for a 4yr term.
Same exact protocol from them..
A "Kelly Rogers" is the initial person we dealt with... She faxed what looked to be legit paperwork and asked us to fax back our banking and personal info. She said that we needed to send a $500.00 security deposit by western union to a "Scott Timmons" in Canada and asked for us to call back with an MTCN number off the receipt. Once I called back with the number, she said that she would enter it into the system and call us back later that night confirming when the money would be in our account.
Well that never happened... I can't even begin to count the number of times I have called and left messages.
Finally after a nasty email I sent telling them I felt like we were being scammed, I got a prompt call from a Kevin Neman "Supervisor" saying it appeared that the loan was on hold and we needed to send a $150.00 more to buy insurance in case my husband loosed his job or we all of sudden croaked. I Angrily I told him that Kelly had not told us about $150.00 and we should have had our money by now. He basically apologized for this "Kelly" and said she was new. I then told him I wanted a refund and he said it would take about 2 weeks...
Stuck in a horrible situation... My husband and I had sent them basically all of our money and could not wait 2 weeks... So we scrounged up another $150.00 and sent it to them.
Again, the same routine took place... But this time we sent it to a "Micheal Smith" in Canada. We then called back with the MTCN number from the western union receipt and he said that our money would be in our account either by that night or in the morning. He said that he was "PERSONALLY" going to take our papers to their finance department so it would get prompt attention. My husband probed him on how we would know that he was going to do what he said he going to do... He then told us that he had to attend a meeting and assured us that once he got out of the meeting he would call back and confirm the details...
Oh and that they were going Fedex our "Congratulations Packet" with our loan agreement.
Right on course... We did not hear back from him. Both my husband and I knew we had just been scammed... We felt it all along... But were desperate to find financial help and ignored a lot of red flags.
About 2:30 am the night/morning after the conversation with Mr. Newman... I decided to look the company up on the Better Business Bureau and of course they were not listed... And then I came across the god send " Rip off Report".
I printed everything off and took it all to the police station. We filed a police report and are now waiting for a detective to call.
I definaly agree that if we all get togther on this we can take them down!
The contact info that we were given from them are:
Kelly Rogers and Jody Brown-
1888-875-0702 (pager to voicemail)
Kevin Newman
1888-865-2924 (pager to voicmail)
Scott Timmons and Michael Smith
Calgary Alberta, Canada
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