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Eastwood Financial Services Complaint - Scammed too - loan
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I applied for a 10,000 loan to consolidate all my credit cards and some other bills so I could be debt free. They asked me to send them $770 as collateral since they couldn't give me a signature loan. I did that never thinking that it didn't make sence to be paying for a loan. The next day they said I needed to send another 1000.00 which I had to borrow putting me in even more debt. To make a long story short the loan never went through and they wanted me to send them another 1300.00 so they would increase the loan to 20,000 instead and I could send back any of the money I didn't need. I didn't send them the 1300.00 because it all started sounding fishy to me. I should have checked online before dealing with this company and now I'm so sorry. I'm out almost 1800.00 and after reading all the complaints I'm sure I'll never see that money. I was so stupid but I've never sent a moneygram before last week and didn't realize that something just wasn't right. I will never allow myself to get mixed up with anything like this ever again.
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Posted by MSCANTBEWRONG on 2009-08-17:
If anyone wants me to send them money to secure a loan with them, then my scam radar goes off the charts. I'm sorry it took yours a while to sound off.
Posted by JohnInSoCal on 2009-08-17:
Wow, just wow! Any reputable company who charges a fee for their services builds the amount into the loan, or takes the money at the time the loan is funded. People, if a supposed loan company asks for money up front, it is a scam and your BullShyte meter should be sending up so many red flags that you would walk away.. no.. RUN away from that "offer"!
Posted by justthefaxx on 2009-08-17:
I agree, especially if they don't take credit cards as payment. If you use moneygram or western union, say bye bye to your money, oops I mean their money.
Posted by tnchuck100 on 2009-08-17:
Money was sent to Canada. Right?
Posted by cycolbur on 2009-08-18:
I would contact your state attorney general and also the local police. I would contact a lawyer as well. There are scam artist everywhere. good luck
Posted by tnchuck100 on 2009-08-18:
cycolbur, your approach will net nothing. These scam artists operate outside of the US and therefor outside of any legal jurisdiction here. The authorities here are well aware of this scam. It has been around for years. There is nothing they can do.
Posted by BokiBean on 2009-08-18:
I'm so sorry you had to learn this the hard way. Thanks for bucking up and putting your experience online so that someone else may avoid these scammers.
Posted by PepperElf on 2009-08-18:
o yeah i've heard about them before here
never fall for those get rich quick scams
never fall for those get rich quick scams
Posted by Slimjim on 2009-08-18:
Exactly what I was thinking Chuck so I looked at one of the other reviews on them. Bingo, Canada. There is no doubt this was a pure scam run from the great white north to avoid US laws and prosecution. NEVER, EVER deal with any financial outfit operating in Canada. The real ones up there deal with Canadian currency for Canadians, just as our institutions deal in dollars. Any place offering US residents financial services in dollars headquartered in Canada has got to be a huge red flag.
Posted by Mac on 2011-05-23:
I went thru the same thing i was scammed by www.Lonsdaleconsolidationltd.com.....Beware!!!I asked the Broward County Florida Sheriffs office to visit and there is no business there,They took my money then no loan They are crooks dont send them any money
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