Victim Location 70531
Total money lost $869
Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan
I applied for loan online and received email with forms stating loan was approved. Then received phone call about loan. After phone call I knew something wasn’t right therefore replied email with no longer wish to continue. Later that evening I received phone call stating money was deposited into my acct anyway after refusing to proceed and I had to return money using gift cards. I was being threatened with being arrested if I didn’t return their company money so I did as ordered. Now I have a dispute coming thru my acct and I know they are going to reverse deposit do they’ll have gotten money twice.
Victim Location 80109
Type of a scam Other
I received an e-mail saying that I got a loan. It had the ScamPulse.com seal and certification on it or so it seemed. When I went to the loan agreement the language was off. It didn’t look like any other loan agreement. I went to the BBB website and tried to look them up and no such company was found.
Victim Location 89123
Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan
I had applied for a loan with other lenders and this particular company got ahold of my info and kept calling me nonstop. I finally responded and they verified all my info. They said I was approved for $8,000 but to prove my trustworthiness to repay they were going to make small deposit into my acct and whatever they deposited had to be paid back in 2 hrs. they directed me to go Target to buy a giftcard using they money they supposedly deposited. But in actuality they didn’t deposit anything, they reversed some payments I had previously made to my other creditors to free up the money they claim they deposited. All the money they reversed they wanted me to give to them. And they also claim they couldn’t use their name in the transaction process – they kept rattling off some babble about the federal trade commission. I didn’t give them any money. My gut feeling told me not to. There were too many red flags. Unfortunately they have a lot of my info. So to be safe I will have close my checking, although they claim they couldn’t deduct anything out of my acct.