Robert
Irvine,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, June 03, 2008
You made a couple of big mistakes. First, anytime someone asks you for money up front in order to get a loan it is a SCAM. When you sent this money that was the last time you would see that money, and you will never see the loan. Second(and bigger problem), you wrote a check with the "thought" the money was in your account. For a major amount did it not occur to you to at least check with your bank to see if it was there? Depending on the charges you are actually facing you need an attorney. If these are criminal charges you can get a court appointed attorney. You can attempt to use that you were scammed in your defense. But they are going to bring up the fact that you wrote the check without the money in your account against you.