- Report: #508998
Complaint Review: silvergate financial - philadelphia Pennsylvania
Reported By:
anonymous -
lexington, North Carolina, USA
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silvergate financial
1717 arch street philadelphia, 19103 Pennsylvania, United States of America
Phone:
1877826857
Web:
www.silvergatefinancial.com
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silvergate financial bradley kennedy, peter lynch called told me i had loan had to send 820 to them i did then said they needed another 820 i did now it is 1600 that cause lender backed out ceo got involved told me had another lender philadelphia, Pennsylvania
i got a call from bradley kennedy saying i had a loan. it was for 5000.00 i really needed a loan. well he told me in order to get it i needed to send money to cananda to a april caldwell. well i borrowed money from friends, sent it. suppose to get phone call next day from manger.i got call from peter lynch next day telling me i would have to send another 820.00 in order to show a good faith jester to the private lender. well i stupidly borrowed again from friends. i called him ondering why i had ot received money in account yet. he tells me the lender backed out but the ceo got involved,told me they were suing on my behalf cause lender had contract with both of us. anyway he told me ceo thomas gardner had me a loan for 10,000, at the same thing the other lender was offering. the only thing i needed to come up with 1600.00 there is no way i could do that. he told me he could refund my money to me but it would not be til next billing cycle which is next month. coworker told me that she seen it on tv that a company was ripping people off, i was praying it was not htem silvergate but it is
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Flynrider
Phoeix,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Not an actuall company.
#2Consumer Comment
Thu, October 15, 2009
Silvergate is just a name they made up for this scam. In reality, it's just a couple of scammers with Internet access and throwaway cell phones. There's no loan, no private lender, no CEO. Their goal was to get you to send them money using an untraceable Western Union or Moneygram transfer. The fact that you sent it across an international border almost guarantees that you'll never see it again. Even if the FBI wanted to catch these guys, they have no jurisdiction in Canada. It would take a joint US/Canada task force to accomplish that, and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
In the future, anyone who requires you to pay upfront for a loan is scamming you. That's not legal.
To find out more about Advance Fee Loan Scams, see the FTC's webpage :
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/telemarketing/tel16.shtm
