upfront fee loan scam run by desperate scammers, this is one of them

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I gotta a call from a Matthew Williams stating he was from Advanced Funding Corporation. He stated that if I send him 1200 his company would loan me 10,000. I ask for additional information. He faxed me loan docs. He then advised me to transfer money via Western Union to a person named "Chad". That's when I realized this must be a scam. Whenever is sound too good to be true. IT is!!

I received a call at my job that I won the Sweepstakes Lottery for l.5 million.  I told them to email me about this winning.  They did and they also called me back.  They wanted to know how I wanted to retrieve it and I told them they could send it to me via Registered Mail.  They told me the company does not allow that.  The only way is to is to remit to your bank account or 3 people would come to my house (U.S. Marshall, Lawyer, and Courier).  Prior to them coming over I would have to deposit around $860 in some bank in New York and then call them up for them to come over with money.  I told them they could take it out of my winnings and they said they couldn't because of company policy.  I told them also if they wanted to come over Saturday would be okay with me and they said they would have to make special arrangements to do so but first I had to make that deposit.  I told them I would (I lied) and if Saturday would be okay with them and they said call back on Saturday.  They have a Magic Jack Phone as I tried to call them back. When I finally got in contact with them I asked where they were at and they said they were on Maine Street in Washington, D.C.  I called the Metro Police on this to verify and they said many people have called about these people, but they don't exist.  I gave them the number that shows up on my phone ID and told them it was a Jack Phone and see if they could trace it.  First Leberman, now some Lottery place in D.C.  Beat the crap out of all of them!!!!!!!!!!!

Think Leberman and McIntosh are the same and they move through out the country to scam people

Have any ideas where they are???? I would definitely go on a hunt looking for them and let them pay for what they did.

Did they send a contract to you to sign via email.  I saw there letterhead and it was in Providence, Rhode Island.  I did use the website you mentioned.  Think we should team up and whoever else has been ripped off join us and find those sick people.

Why get a loan if you are paying in advance?  Any ideas to how to get our money back?

I also received a call from an Erin Bailey from this Leberman Lending Company.  She said I was approved for $40,000.  I didn't think nothing of it.  She told me the procedure was to send around $480.00 via Western Union to Jamaica to a Celia Thompson (she was the loaner) afterwards I would have it in my bank account within a half hour.  She called me back an hour later and said the loaner needs another $480.00 for issurance purposes and that's all and the money will be my bank account within l5 minutes.  Again, didn't think anything about it, so I did.  I periodically checked my account and nothing there.  It was a Friday so thought maybe it didn't register until midnight into my account. So I got up early on Saturday and checked my accout...nothing there.  I called her office and it was jack phone responding.  Assumed that they didn't work on weekends, so I contacted her via email on Monday and followed up with a phone call.  She told me she didn't know what happen and to call her back.  By this time I started to wonder if I was taken on this.  So I told her I want my money that I sent to Western Union back and now!!!! She told me I had to wait 30 days and then the funds would be released.  Still nothing  and to this date nothing.  I called her office again and the jack phone customer service answered that the phone was canceled.  Any ideas what to do....I'm really stress that I was taken.

Leberman Lending Company ripped me off!  I got a call one day in answer to a loan request I did online.  It was Leberman Lending Company that asked for money twice to get my loan approved.  I was to send it to Jamaica to a Celia Thompson and they said within an half hour the money would be in my account.  It never showed up.  The money sent was through Western Union.  I told their representative that was coordinating this action that I demanded my money back from this person in Jamaica.  They said it would 30 days.  It has been over 30 days, still no refund.  I called them again and seems as though their Jack Phone as been canceled.   Now I am out of my hard earned money.

Why would anyone have to pay for a loan?  Doesn't make since to me, I've received a call from Westshore Lending Services telling I was approved for $10,000 but my credit was shot (yea right) and I need to pay them $1,000 before i get the money.  DO I LOOK OR SOUND STUPID, so I asked him to email me the loan docs guess what couldn't it's against the law, so I started asking a lot of questions, guess what haven't heard from him again.

People be careful, the number is 1-877-834-7022.  SCAM SCAM SCAM.

loan agent was michael carter. called me a couple of times for an approved loan. Got his infromation then made a deal with him to give me time then ill send the money for down payment. I did a research on him and company found out was a scam. call him again confronted him about situation and let him know that his voice and phone conversations has been encrypted to find main feed to its location. He hangs up , call him back again , phone is cut off. Its weird how these crooks work their way into stealing money. I hope the government takes some consideration into catching these criminals and bring them to justice somehow, because i will find a way to catch them..

I just got a message from James Leberman again and he said that if I could not come up with the money for the down payment he could take it out of the $20,000 that they are lending to me. Why didn't he tell me this in the first place and I bet that he will want my Banking Information so he can send the check to my bank. What he really wants is my banking information so he can steal out of my little bid of money that I have. I hope these people get caught.

I do have some good info if you have been scammed you can put in a complaint and possibly get legal action by going to this site
http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

Leberman called us also and said that we were approved for a $50,000 loan.  He told my wife that he needed all the normal information that a loan company asks for and said that once he recieves that then he will send the money to us fedex.  then she called back to see if we could do it at a later date so that we could have access to a fax machine.  He then told her that we would have to pay 920 to get the loan

thanks everyone

I received a call from a supposedly "James Leberman" informing me that my loan had been approved and that a check was ready for me in the amount of $5000.  Apparently, I was to send them some money first in order to receive my check which never made any sense to me, especially since I'm trying to borrow money.  How can I send them money?  The guy told me that I would have to send the money to them via Moneygram which made no sense.  At any rate, I always research companies before doing business with them.  I never found a site for them in my search.  First of all, if you're a legit business, your company would come up instantly on a search.  The only companies with similar names were in GA.  This guy said he was in NY.  What confirmed for me that it was a scam was the fact that I received the email with my fake loan docs from a yahoo email address from a Brian Fulton.  What company employee doesn't have a company email address?  When I called to ask James about it, he told me that it was from his manager, Brian and that it was from his yahoo account because he had to verify it first.  I guess they think I'm STUPID!!!.  Well, I'm not.  I'm going to report them every place I can.  This s*** will stop!!  I must admit, it did sound good......  SCAM SCAM BEWARE!!!

I was about to screw-up big time and I found this site. A rep from McIntosh Lending called me (James Leberman)and said that I was getting a $20,000 loan but I had to pay a 4 month payment of a little over $900.00 to get the loan secured. I got all pumped up becaused I have been trying to get a loan for a while. Bad health and ex-wife screwed up my credit and I can not get a head. This is a big SCAM and I hope that more people read this blog. What is so bad is that they have a real Web Site and Telephone number. If anyone has any information on how a person can get a loan with bad credit, please let me know.

i got a call from melissa perry and approved me for a loan and i asked for an increase and i wa sgiven dfferent numbers my gut feeling lead me to be curious so hear i am ill take the notes ive read jus by seeng her name a a blog that this is a scam  the number is 18884616499

Melissa Perry left a message on my answering machine today,saying that I was approved for a personal loan, I am so glad that I looked up the informaton with the BBB and low and behold they are not even a member of the BBB. They are not the only ones that are doing the there is also another company out there doing the same thing so don't fall for the same scam from a company called Essex Lending Company they use the same line. I Googled that one and found it to be in a millon dollar estate. When I told the guy who I was dealing with about googling there address he said he would chech into it. HOW FUNNY NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN!!!!

I needed a business loan small but for additional tools for a project that I have been awarded, 5 grand, with the economy I wanted to stay close to wire, well thank you all for imput, I just recently returned to Florida from Baltimore, laid off so I sarted my own construction company, not new, just property management of abandion / foreclosed property, remodels, consulting, I have the check ready to send, they needed 2 months payments from me due to recently relocating and buying my new home in the last 60 days. That is money I will not send, I may loose the project but I wont loose more money, Thank you again....
Harley

Wow, is all i can say, Ive been dealing with Mary Jonas, she said I was approved for $5000, amazed me since my credit is shot. I went with it briefly, then she proceeded to tell me that I needed to pay $630 in order to get my $5000, started to get a lil fishy, so when asked questions about her business, and the PRIVATE lenders they deal with, she talked in circles, said she had another call, said shed call right back, and didnt. Shock. SOoooo.. My fiance and myself did some research and thank god for you people, because we read further and further, getting more sickened to our stomachs, Miss Mary Jonas didnt want to answer when i called back, so I decided to give miss Melissa Perry a call, I told her how disgusting they were for stealing peoples money like they do, and ill find a way to get them, she said, Whose the bigger retard? Me whose getting the money or the ones who sent it to me, i said can u believe what a scum bag you sound like? she said and i quote   "Suck your moms P**sy"  real profession eh? Im beyond sickened by this. I intend to find a way to catch up to these people and make damn certain any person who was ROBBED, justice. Youve got no idea how angered I am by all of this.  Im sorry to anyone who has delt with these crooks!Luckily they never got a penny from me, however it was a close one.

oh yes...man was I excited to get the loan.....thank god I read this.  Just got off the phone with a Melissa Perry.  Said that I was approved and all.  SCAM

Wow im glad i saw these posts! becare full about a melissa perry 1-888-461-6649 ext 621.... They wanted me to send her 1,200.00 but it sounded so fishy i had to look it up! im glad i didnt go with it..

i put the moneygrams in my husbands name cause i was told u need i.d. to pick up a moneygram,but found out that wheni sent it to yukon,canada 30mins.later it was picked up by someone with my husbands name!!!!!!!!so now i lost alllllllllllll of my money.........i thought it was safe.i told mcintosh lending that i would change the moneygram into there name when i got my money,but still got played....................

beware nothing can be done once you send the money told by mary jonas that we had to wait 4 hours for money to hit bank then it never does.  Whants to use moneygram to get money cant get it back

SAME THNIG FROM MCINTOSH LENDING INC. THE GUYS NAME IS MICHEAL CARETER BUT I SENT THEM MONEY GRAMS IN MY OWN NAME SO THEY CANT CASH IT TILL I GET MY MONEY.WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO COME ON SATURDAY!!!!!AND THEN I AM TO SWITCH THE MONEY GRAM INTO THEIR NAME. BUT NOW I JUST SAW THIS BLOG,SO I GUESS MY MONEY ISN'T COMING...HE HAD ME SEND THE MONEY TO YUKON,CANADA.AND AS OF 4PM TODAY MY MONEY IS STILL COMING!!!!!!!

I signed up online for loans with bad credit and got a call back from Mary Jonas with McIntosh Lending. They offered me a $150,000 loan for a mortgage but said that because my credit was so low a personal investor would finance me. They wanted a down payment of $2k. My realtor mentioned this sounded fishy so I did an internet site and low and behold I found this blog. Here's the info they used on me:
McIntosh Lending Inc ©
8400 Normandale Lake Blvd, Bloomington MN, 55437
1-888-461-6649

SAID I WAS APPROVED FOR A 15,000.00 LOAN BANK DECLINED MY LOAN SO A PERSONAL LOAN (PERSON) WOULD LET ME HAVE THE MONEY. COMPANY NAME WAS MCINTOSH LENDING INC. WANTED ME TO SEND THEM $945.00 FOR 2 MONTH PAYMENT. LOAN AGENT WAS MARY JONAS. SCAM,SCAM,SCAM. 347-562-2648 WILL NOT WORK IF YOU CALL IT BACK.

Yes! Got a call from them too. Went with my gut and research and thank goodness I did not give them money. The website is not valid anymore becasue they have probably started a new website with a new phone number and a new name.

Company called Convention Lending Group, SCAM, SCAM, SCAM.   Says you have to pay a fee before they'd give you a loan.   Took all my money, that's for sure.   Even had a website, valid phone numbers and such.   Go to www.conventionlendinggroup.com.   BEWARE.