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Internet Loan Scams – Scammers Contact me for Funding
I regularly receive scam emails requesting large loans through my contact form on this loan related website. Most of these are probably some type of advanced fee fraud if you were to start corresponding with the individual.
There are some people who take pride and joy in wasting scammers time by corresponding with them, but I don’t have time for that. Although it is humorous to read through some of the tales of scam-baiting at 419eater.com.
I hope other people are not falling for these loan scams, but unfortunately they are. There are various types of financial fraud on the internet — here are some examples of people who were charged. Of course, there is also the famous Prosper case of Jessica Wolcott.
The best email that I received had the subject line “Seeking a loan for $350,000″ and the email body text of “need funding.” That is all the email contained.
Here is one below that claims to be from Atlanta Georgia, but if you look up his IP address he is somewhere in the Caribbean.
I am a small company in Atlanta GA which with need to join together the sum
of $100.000 to pay the emission of bonds private and public which will be
sold in the whole world by NEW YORK Stock Exchange stockbrokers I also have
several sources of international investors who will buy the bonds of my
company when it are emitted and published out of purse. Since year 2000
that I fight to succeed. I have to accomplish several voyages to find
partners who now will help me to carry out my macro commercial project and
industrialist who is at 100% innovating and reliable like says it to me
economists. I wish that you to help itself to find funds to pay the
emission of the bonds for my company by the means of my lawyers located at
Miami FL. Of course I will give you more information to make a enquette
before engaging you with me. I am French and does not speak quite English
but takes lessons to learn.
Thank you for such a good laugh. Being elderly, poor and with pitiful credit often makes it difficult to enjoy stories of other needy people, but this was classic.
I know that it is not good business to loan money to those who have ‘bad’ credit….and I do!…but sometimes, you would be surprised that it is as good as it is considering what deeds were done simultaneously.
I started school at 5, graduated at 16, went to work in civil service at 17 and worked intul I was 73. My son, 50, was only dianosed as severely and long-term bipolar in 2005. I took care of him and his 4 children until 2002. When he has not been incarcerated, I have continued to care for him. He has aoolied for SSI, but so far, he has not been approved. I wil not let my chid starve.
My income is only $1399 a month but I pick up several hundred a month from programs online.
I want to buy a house and tke in 4 women who are getting ‘clean’ and need a safe and lovinng place to learn how to live and to get back into ‘living’. I am strong-willed, confident, compassionate and have over 50 years as a real esteate broker, property manager. full-charge bookkeeper, executive secretary and caregiver.
I would charge each woman $300 which would pay the mortgage or rent, and I would pay the utilities. We would either have our meals together or separately. At the end of a year each would find her own place and would be replaced with 4 more women needing a firm hand and handy shoulder to cry on..and
america would have reclaimed 4 more lost people.
Once you get in the system, it continues to grind you down. Faith-based help is much more sucessful because we are doing it for a higher cause than a paycheck.
So you see, credit scores are not the only criteria for making a loan, although I understand the premise. If anyone could see allI accomplished while letting some things go, I would not be so revile. Just another side of life to smile over. God bless you. Jeanne
The loan requests continue to come in:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:14 AM, anrio charles < [email removed]@yahoo.com> wrote:
i would like to apply for a loan online, please let me know what’s to do, and how to apply.
I get these emails sometimes too. I don’t think they are all scammers. Sometimes people are just looking for help and just really don’t know where to go.
There are probably a few that are legitimate, but even those are likely to be a very poor credit risk if they are turning to a random person on the internet asking for large sums of money.
Have you ever responded to any of them? If so, how did the conversation go?