Complaint Review: Bellwood Financial Group - Fort Lauderdale Florida

first day, sept 30 This so called company approved me for a $10000.00 dollar personal loan at 6% flat rate no payment till march 1, 2009. They asked for a collateral payment of $1215.00 plus a money gram fee of $24.30 'Audrey Taylor' sent me the contract I read it over and signed it and faxed it back to them. She said she needed get the signed contract in order to give me further instructions.

She calls me back when she receives the fax, and say's you should receive the $10000.00 dollars on 1 October 2008 before 5pm EST. She then gives me instructions to send the collateral via Money Gram to a lady named Samantha Foxx in Riverview(New Brunswick), Canada, and to call her back with the money gram reference number. I called her back with the number and she said that I was all set and that I should get my money Oct 1 2008 before 5pm est.

The third day, oct 2

At about 11:30AM est a guy named Stewart Mackey (Customer Service Manager) gave me a call and said there was a problem with my application, and that I needed to give them an additional $1215.00 to secure the loan. I sent the money because I knew that I had bad credit and sent the money to the same lady Samantha Foxx. He told me that I will get the 10000$ by 5pm the same day. I waited, didn't see any money on my checking. The next day I called Stewart Mackey who will tell that we had a problem. He said that the bank refused to provide the loan but not to worry he will sue the bank but in the meantime he found another lender who offered 20,000$ but they were requesting 2430.00 on top of what I already paid. Once again I sent the money through moneygram with a fee of 48.60 $ to Denise Selton in Brooks, AB Canada. I called Stewart Mackey back to give him the reference number. He told me that I will get the $20,000.00 by 5PM the same day.

On october 9th, I still didn't see any money in my account, I called Mackey and he told me that because the money is too large, the canadien government is requesting 10% for the transaction. Once again, I sent $2,000.00 to Denise Selton Brooks, AB, Canada. Calling Mackey, he told me that the money will be in my account at 5pm. And still no money!

October 10th, I called Mackey to let him know that I still didn't receive the money. Then he told me that his secretary made a mistake, instead of telling him that the Canadien government said 20%, she said 10%, he insulted her and that he will fire her. So he tald me to send the remaining 10% (2,000 dollars) which I did with a fee of 40.00 dollars to Denise Selton.

Once again he convainced me that I will have the money the same day at 5 pm.

The same day, I called Audrey Taylor to ask her if this was true because I was not understanding the situation. I asked her if this was not a scam because everytime their was a problem. She assured me that it wasn't.

Now today on october 13, 2008, after calling Mackey 15 times, I finally spoke to Audrey Taylor who told me that somebody else will call me. Around 10:00am, Howard Bennett(Senior Manager) told me that they have a problem with the bank that the bank backed out of the offer and that he had 40,000 for me; that I needed to send him $4860.00. Now I got upset, I told him that I gave him that I sent to them $8860.00, I didn't want to send anymore that I wanted my money back. He said that anytime if I change my mind to call him back and he said that he will refund my money on october 28th 2008 on my checking.

I have my money gram receipt and all the evidences

I reported this Company to just about everyone, FT Lauderdale, FL Police, Canadian Police, moneygram fraud and I am calling the FBI.

Scammers phone #'s TEL: 1888-227-8523

FAX # 954-337-7730

Audrey Taylor EXT 680 Accounts Rep

Stewart Mackey EXT 0 then press 1.

Howard Bennett Ext 183

Ismael

menands, New York

U.S.A.

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