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  • Report:  #393387

Complaint Review: Ventana Consolidation Group

Ventana Consolidation Group Loans for People With Bruised/Bad Credit Rip-off Providence Rhode Island

  • Reported By:
    Sammamish Washington
  • Submitted:
    Thu, November 20, 2008
  • Updated:
    Thu, December 11, 2008
  • Ventana Consolidation Group
    1 Financial Plz Suite 24
    Providence, Rhode Island
    U.S.A.
  • Phone:
    866-944-8077
  • Category:

I was contacted by a company stating that I had been approved for a $10000 loan. They left a message on my answering machine, as well as sent an email to me (probably based on information when I completed a payday loan online).

After calling a Heather Thomason back at extension 235, I was told I had been approved. After telling me that I would receive $10000 with a 7.25% interest rate payable over 4 years, she said she would send the documents to me and she would need a copy of my social security card, as well as my state drivers license. At the end of the conversation, she said, "Due to your credit, you were not approved by a bank but by a private lender who demands that you place $1500 in collateral". She asked if I had any questions, and I said I would first like to review the paperwork.

When I received the email and loan documents (all very official looking), I noticed that it stated that I would need to send back the documents, along with copies of my identification and social security number, and $1500 as collateral!

Any loan which asks for a payment UPFRONT in order to receive money, I learned from the BBB, is a scam. These people would have had my social security card, as well as identification and signature if I sent this to them.
DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH VENTANA! THEY WILL NOT LOAN YOU MONEY BUT ARE TRYING TO FEED OFF OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BAD CREDIT AND SORELY NEED THEIR MONEY! What they are doing is reprehensible. If I had $1500 to just "give away" for a $10000 loan, I would rather pay off one of my credit cards.

Diamond
Sammamish, Washington
U.S.A.

2 Updates & Rebuttals


Leslie

Langhorne,
Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.

whats this persons name you are dealing with ?

#3Consumer Comment

Thu, December 11, 2008

you are NOT going to get your money back. I called the Rhode Island State Attorney Generals office - the address is fake and they knew of this company as a scam. Please be smart from here on out - DO NOT SEND ANY MORE MONEY.. they told me the very same thing - wanted money for collateral - then insurance - then taxes. I hired a lawyer -- it is illegal to take money before giving a loan. let me guess... you wired money to canada? yep thought so... beware.. your money is lost my friend... contact the canadian authorities now... peace.. but please tell us who this person is that you are talking with... and by the way the 866 # can be set up on a monthly basis - rest assured by dec 15th it will be no more.


Virginia

Montpelier,
Virginia,
U.S.A.

Ventana Consolidation Group

#3Consumer Comment

Sat, December 06, 2008

I have read two of the scam reports and I saw that they didn't go through with the procedure. I have gone through with first giving Ventana $1500 for a security deposit. They then wanted $950 for insurance fee. Then they wanted $1000 for 10% taxes on the loan. This is supposedly be a $10,000 loan. The loan is from a private lender in Canada. I am also working with one of the named mentioned in these two scam reports. I am waiting for these funds to be direct deposited into my bank account no later than Saturday, December 6, 2008. If these funds are not there, I will then know that this company, Ventana, is a scam and I will report it. So far, I've been communicating with this individual from Ventana and just praying that it is a real website. I have all documents that was sent and I have all receipts of transactions that were sent to a particular person in Canada.

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