Kaufmann Lending Center

Krystle –

Victim Location 60455

Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan

Contacted by Katherine Martin. She was very pleasant said I had been approved for $5000. She said I had to make 4 collateral payments of $600. It never set well with me. I googled as well as called Attorneys Generals office, no company by this name exist in California at this address. There are 4 scam alerts against this company since October 1st. I also forwarded a copy of the contract to the Attorney Generals Office.

Alex –

Victim Location 02703

Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan

Was contacted by Denise Brown their “senior loan officer” after applying for debt consolidation online. Put in my application, and was told to pay a fee to obtain my loan. I have yet to hear back from them. After doing some info I found out the location they have was completely bogus, there is no business there currently and that business had never been there. I never sent the fee but I knew something was up when their application was sent to me with words filled in here and there.

Scott –

Victim Location 36507

Total money lost $600

Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan

My husband is a disabled vet. Contacted by email saying send 600$ and then get a 5000$ loan. He spoke to a loan officer in person on the phone. All was supposedly okay. Then after they took our money they said no loan. Kept the money.

Roy –

Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan

Applied for a loan online got an email saying I was approved and that I had to call for more information so I called and got and answering service asking me to record my name so I did then it put me thru to this woman’s voicemail asking me to leave a message and she would return my call shortly. She returned my call and told me I was approved for 10,000 but because of my credit,which is not that great thankfully in this situation, she told me that I had 3 options to chose from in order for them to loan me this money so she told me option 1 was to have a co signer who has a credit score of 750 or greater and wasn’t co signing for anyone else then there was option 2 which was I send three monthly payments in advance as collateral but that it would go towards my first three months so I wouldn’t need to start making payments until March 2019 so she said I would need to send 675 usd in order to receive the 10,000. Option 3 was purchase insurance which would secure the loan in the event I was unable to make my payments the cost of this was 1200 she said very expensive keep in mind. I started to think this was not right so I told her I will have to get back to you on this. She said ya sure just call me or email me if you have any questions. When I got home I decided to email her asking her to send me a copy of what we discussed over the phone so a few hours later she emails me a copy of a contract stating only about option 2. There was my second red flag so I decided to look this business up on the ScamPulse.com and no results exist for this business. So I emailed her asking why is it that when I search your business with the bbb nothing comes up. No response.

Larry –

Victim Location 34113

Total money lost $800

Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan

Was contacted by " Denise Brown " Senior Loan Officer and was presented with a loan offer and was given three choices on security for the "Private lender" 1

Option 1. To obtain Insurance for the loan

Option 2. Make Three Collateral Payments for $225.00 Each

Option 3. To Obtain a Co-Signer

Sent a contract which seemed to be legit at the time… Returned Signed and was Given Instructions to Moneygram $675.00 Dollars to The Investor Gordon Crawford in Ontario Canada Upon doing so was informed By Moneygram that the recipient was blocked and they canceled the transaction.

The Next day I researched further to find that they had provided an address to an empty office space in Temecula CA I contacted the leasing agent for the property and was told that No Business has ever been there by that name.

That same day was called by Denise Brown when I asked general questions she transferred me to the manager Adam.

He informed me to send the Monogram to the name Michael Reed Also located in Ontario Canada

I finally called them back to Drop the mic and they completely denied the information

I have now lost the deposit that I had in place waiting to secure the loan.

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