He scammed us when he heard we needed a small business loan. He offered to give us the loan himself claiming that he gave out low interest loans to avoid taxes. He had documents showing that he sold multimillion dollar businesses and loan contracts from other loans for much larger amounts that he had done. We would have found out it was a scam sooner, but he lied about the spelling of his name and his address. He told us Nick Rivella, but it is actually Nick Revella. He also told us his home's address was on the cross street next to his house, 451 Birch Terrace, East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301, which doesn't exist.
The address he gave us for his house in NY is actually the empty field next to his son's house. With those addresses we could go there and still not know the mailing address. We did look into him, but with the name and addresses he gave there was nothing to find. Once we got really suspicious we did an intense search for him finding his property records and then were able to find out about other cases against him. Http://www.attorneygeneral. Gov/press. Aspx? Id=945 His case is down towards the bottom. Http://www.attorneygeneral. Gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Vulcan Construction (1). Pdf These are the court docs.
We were going to file a small claims court case against him. When we sent him an invoice that said if he didn't pay we would file against him he called and made a bunch of threats. He said he would file false criminal charges and a counter suit. He was dicking us around for many months and it looks like he was just playing with us to get out of paying his bill. He even guaranteed he would give us the loan to the owner of the business we wanted to buy. There were over a hundred phone calls and every time he gave an excuse or rescheduled many appointments.
We even drove to his home 4 times. Many times he promised we would receive a funds transfer or other payment. It was all just an elaborate hoax over about 4 months. The attorney general told us because it is a business issue and since we aren't the customer he won't do anything. From what I've seen he must have done this before, he knew how to cover his tracks and that if he was the customer we wouldn't have much recourse. I'm just glad he was only able to get his account balance. Which was supposed to be the down payment for the loan. We didn't have any cash to give him, so that's all he could get.
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