Luke
Tallahassee,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, April 13, 2004
This sounds exactly like the ole "pigeon drop" scam except that instead of a person "finding" a large sum of money in an envelope in the street and wanting to "share" it with an unsuspecting victim who is told they must put up some money as "good faith" usually a bank acount...this phony creditor tells people they guarantee a huge loan if they put up $300.00 of "good faith money". What I don't understand is that in this country if someone uses a mask and gun to rob someone they go to prison for a while yet these white coller crimes that bilk tax payers out of thousands if not millions of dollars annually are virtually untouchable. A shame really. These slime balls should be tarred and featherd and run out of town on a rail with a big boot up the butt and told that if they come back they will wish they were not born. But that will never happen as we are much too civilized in the USA for such harsh treatment of slimeballs, so every year more unsuspecting people who are looking for a "good deal" will get screwed. Bottom line if a creditor tells you that you need to put up money to get a loan, tell them no thanks and find another creditor.