I applied on line for a 5000.00 dollar personal loan online to a few companies; a couple days later was called by Christine Moore (Senior Loan Representative) saying I was approved with 6% intrest rate. She called this a collateral personal loan and informed my that the collateral would be 6 months worth of payments up front and wanted 900.00 from me. I told her that I didn't have that kind of money hence the loan I was applying for. I asked her if she could take it out of the 5000.00 dollars they were lending me and she said that they couldn't do it that way, that is was a person to person loan but she would try to see if she could get him to come down in the payment to 5 months instead of 6 months.
I called back and she informed me that the lender agreed and to money gram it to Sheila Jordan (accounts payable rep) in Canada, pin number 1132698534. All documents looked legit all paperwork was sign by Peter J. Hudwon CEO Ameritrust Lending Services. I asked her over and over again if this was legit and she swore to me that it was. I should have listened to my instinct because something was telling me not to send the money. Well I didn't listen and sent the money on Friday 11/16/07.
On 11/27/07 a guy named Stewart Hall called to inform me that my case was reassessed and that the lender wanted 750 dollars more 10 months in advance. I then informed him that there was no way to do that and that I want my money back now. He told me that I would be reimbursed on 11/29/07 since that is when the lender sends them money or something like that.
Well all week I've been trying to call them to be sure that the money will be returned to me on 11/29/07 and have gotten nothing but answering machines and no call backs. I then tried to go onto the website that is on my paperwork and the site can no longer be located. I then typed into the search engine ameritrust lending and came up with a couple of other people who were scammed just like me. My next contact it to the better busniess bureau hopefully they can help me or at least stop this from happening to some other despartate person from being scamed.
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