Community Choice Financials

Mitchell –

Victim Location 30157

Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan

IApply for a loan through this company called community choice financial they told me I qualify for $3000 loan and I will receive it between 7 and 8 AM when I got the phone call told me the loan couldn’t be deposit into my account and that I still had two options I can come into an office and pick up a paper check or I can have the money sent by money gram so I chose money gram and then Mr. Ben Parker told me that I had to pay $100 fee to receive $3000 and I told him I have picked up plenty of money from money gram before and never had to pay a fee to receive money I told him this sounds like a scam and I have the phone up in his face

Walter –

Victim Location 39059

Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan

Got call after applying online for loan and got call from him saying I was approved. Then he sent email and I will forward it to u if u like,i called CCI to verify the loan but I knew it was fake but he got info from one of the companies

Cory –

Victim Location 92612

Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan

I had applied for a personal loan online, I have poor credit so the options that were available to me were not going to work for me. I received a call the next day from a company who claimed to be Community Choice Financial Inc. who was offering me an installment loan of $2000 with 10% APR. Unsure of the reason why the representative told me that they sometimes choose people based not off of their credit, but their ability to pay, steady income, active bank account, etc. He told me how we would proceed, and this included paying for a PPI plan on the loan, but assured me they would deposit the funds required into my bank account so I would not be paying for it myself. I asked if they were going to send any contracts for me to sign or anything, they said after the loan proceedings were finished they would send me a hard copy of all the paperwork, weary I asked for an email, he agreed to send me a PDF file of my loan information although it wasn’t going to be the actual agreement, just the terms so I could verify.

I had looked up information and the company seemed credible, and at least real company, and the fact they were going t put money into my account for the PPI seemed okay, I didn’t have more than $3 in my account at the time, no direct deposits made to it or anything so I agreed, if they put the money in there I would send it to them, at least I would see money from them before the loan went through so I would have an idea of how they worked. They deposited a CHECK for $495 into my account, drawn off of a bank in NC when they were in OH, with no business name on it, a personal check. Luckily my bank caught on and put a hold on it immediately, the company called and said to contact bank and verify I authorized deposit, when I talked to the bank they said they could not verify the account and they were sure it was going to bounce, but if I had the account holder on the phone to verify information with them they would be able to check things out. I told CCFI and they said instead they would deposit another check, when I asked why not just verify the account if the funds were there and they did not give an answer. Later I saw a $290 online deposit of another check, from a different account, different bank, different state, different person, and they had signed the back of both checks with my name to make it as if I had been the one making the deposit. This time the check was immediately available. I called my bank and told them what was going on and asked if they could return the checks and just deduct the funds they had made available. They told me they could not, the lender had to do that, and then they restricted my account so that only preauthorized transactions would go through. The company had been calling me and texting me constantly so I answered and they told me that I needed to go to a money service center, purchase a one time use prepaid visa card, put the funds on it and call them to transfer the money to them.

Now aware that they were depositing bad checks and I would have to pay that money back, I asked about alternative options to pay the PPI, I had prepaid cards in my own name I used for bills and other things and they would not allow me to use that either. I finally told them I wasn’t going to do it, I knew what they were up to, they started yelling at me, swearing at me, threatening me with financial ruin and their attorney, I asked for the information on their attorney and they would not give it to me once I assured them I would have my attorney contact them. They have google verification voice lock on their phones so you can’t contact them, so I was not able to get any further information. a number for CCFI and they told me that was definitely not them because you could only be called by them from 800 numbers, i did some research and found a number with the same area code and city the call came from. Not completely convinced they are completely innocent, All bank accounts frozen, closed and never able to open bank account with this institution again. For life. Identity theft, fraud alerts, horrible. I want their names, phone numbers, location, business numbers, google voice email and any other contact information that will bring them to justice.

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