Flynrider
Phoeix,#2Consumer Suggestion
Wed, November 25, 2009
The "Advance Fee Loan Scam" is a common Internet scam. You were actually dealing with a couple of scammers with throwaway cell phones and Internet access. Basically, they just cobbled up some fake documents and told you a story in order to get you to send them money.
For future reference, when anybody claiming to be a business insists that you send payment via Western Union or Moneygram, you are being scammed. The reason that scammers insist on this is that these types of transfers leave no paper trail.
For more info on this scam, the FTC has a webpage devoted to it :
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/telemarketing/tel16.shtm