Debt Fraud – Fraud alert regarding a telephone scam overdue payday loans The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, recently issued an alert regarding a telephone scam related to overdue payday loans. Consumers are receiving phone calls from people falsely representing law firms, the FBI, and other agencies, claiming to be collecting debts from well [...]
Debt Fraud – Morgan & Associates law firm phone scam has been reported in Great Falls, this time targeting confidential information Dave Berman, who moved to Great Falls just recently, tells us he received a phone call this week from a man claiming to be a representative of the Morgan & Associates law firm. The [...]
Be cautious of any personal loan offers you find online and avoid falling for what is known as the – “Advance Fee Loan Scam” fraud. According to a slew of recent complaints, Assurance Financial Services has been offering these small personal loans on their website. But these loan offers are nothing more than a fraud [...]
ConsumerAffairs.com has also received a number of complaints about debt settlement companies. Kathleen, of Tollhouse, California, reported last November she had problems dealing with a company called Guardian Credit Solution. “We paid them $4490.00 to do a loan modification, which they never did,” she told ConsumerAffairs.com. ALWAYS look a company up on the Better Business [...]
Beware of fraudulent loan advertisements using official financial institution logos. Advertisements for the fake loans appear in smaller-market and community newspapers and offer mortgage, small business, debt consolidation or other loans. The scam uses the credibility of the financial institution’s logo to induce consumers to apply. To respond to the advertisement, victims call a ‘third-party [...]
ConsumerAffairs.com has also received a number of complaints about debt settlement companies. Kathleen, of Tollhouse, California, reported last November she had problems dealing with a company called Guardian Credit Solution. “We paid them $4490.00 to do a loan modification, which they never did,” she told ConsumerAffairs.com. ALWAYS look a company up on the Better Business [...]