Complaint Review: Hope Investment Group

   Hope Investment Group guaranteed a $5000 return on my $500 investment.  This report is to just to inform about what I experienced with them.  I found an ad in Craigslist that offered a return of 10 times my investment in just 14 days.  I know, if it sounds too good....  but I figured if they are legit why not find out.  Well, as per their instructions, I sent them $500 and was issued a password and such for a website to track my investment.  Pretty cool.  I checked on my investment almost every day and was amazed at the increases in value.  Then I was surprised when the returns actually exceeded the $5000.  When the 14 day period was up the value of my account was $6250.90.  I was then instructed to send them the difference of $1250.90 before they would send me my $5000.  I asked them to just send me my $5000 and they could just keep the difference.  They didn't like that idea.  I asked them to send me the $6250.90 and I would gladly send them the $1250.90 once I received the wired funds.  I even offered to pay any fees associated with sending them the overage.  They responded with a story of doing that very thing and people had just kept the overage.  This response was them basically telling me that they didn't trust me.  Hmmm, so I suggested we use an escrow service so neither of us would have to worry about the trust issue.  Again, I offered to handle all the fees associated with the escrow transaction.  That idea was also not accepted so I requested a return of my original $500.  At first they told me they would send a refund form for me to fill out and that the refund would take 14 days to process.  Then they changed their minds on the refund and told me they weren't going to do that.  At this point I am out $500 and they have not held up their end of the agreement.  Beware.