Flynrider
Phoenix,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, December 19, 2011
This is not a real company, just a group of scammers that figured a way to get you to send them untraceable cash. It's called the Advance Fee Loan Scam and is one of the more popular scams on the Internet these days. The scammers use fake or stolen business names, fake contact names, phony websites, phony contracts. After word gets out about this "company" name, they'll just start all over with a new name.
Although it wasn't mentioned in your post, the key to the scam is getting you to send money that is not traceable to them. Generally, Western Union, Moneygram, Moneypack and Green Dot are used. Legitimate businesses don't require anonymous cash transfers.
Reporting this to law enforcement will not likely do any good. All the info that you have on them is made up. The cash transfers can be picked up anywhere in the world. Law enforcement has nowhere to go with these types of scams.
The one good thing you did was to post the company name here. You may save someone from a similar fate. If they Google the fake company name, your report will pop up.
While this same scam is reported hundreds of times every year on this site, I'm sorry to say that I have yet to hear of anyone identifying the scammers, much less getting their money back.
Dave
Ottawa,#3Author of original report
Mon, December 19, 2011
I would like to know if anyone has filed a complaint with BBB or the FTC about this company.
I have filed a complaint. As well as the RCMP.
I hope anyone that has dealt with Money garden financial will do the same.