A guy by the name of Kevin Beary called my boyfriend on January 2, 2014 claiming he got approved for a loan of $600. We had been trying to get a small pay day loan to get caught up on bills bcuz of Christmas & just needed some extra cash to make ends meet. Well Kevin calls telling my fb he got approved & in order to make the deposit in his account he would need to pay the first months fee of $170. He told my bf to get a GreenDot MoneyPack card, put $170 & call him back. I had just gotten a $500 payday loan, so we got the money out of my account & did what the guy asked. Then he calls my bf back & said there's something wrong with his account & it won't allow him to deposit the money, so we had to pay another $130 for an "unblocking fee" so that his account wouldn't block the deposit. So we do so. Well then dude calls back & says it's not allowing him to make the deposit so we need to pay $125 for someone to deliver the cash to our house, the $600 loan plus the $300 we paid in fees. I borrowed $120 from my brother to do this & Kevin said the guy would be there in a couple hours, dude never showed up. So they got us for $425. I should've known better but we were hurting so bad for money we were dumb & willing to do whatever to get help. I call the next day & ask why the guy never showed up & Kevin said it was bcuz my bf had 3 allegations of tax fraud & they would not allow him to release the money. The only way we could get the loan & our $425 back was if we paid one of the fees for the allegations. So we had the choice of paying $675, $891, or $1491. Well we didn't have the money to pay any of them & by then we knew we got scammed so we weren't sending anymore money.
Then I started getting calls from another number, 917.508.7558, & the guy's name was Steven/Brian Smith, he went by both. They wanted me to put money on a Vanilla Visa prepaid card to do the same thing we did with Kevin. Obviously I didn't do that bcuz I knew it was a scam. Come to find out they're friends working together to scam people. A girl from Oklahoma received calls from Steven & got scammed for $260. When she realized she was getting scammed & called them on it, they gave her my number & told her to ask for Kevin. She called & we got to talking & that's how I found out what had happened to her.
I'm a single mom w/ a 7 yr old little boy (my bf isn't my son's father) & these people stole $425 from me. The girl from OK was 19 & pregnant w/ her first child & was going to be losing her job bcuz of maternity leave & they stole $260 from her. These guys make me sick. They think it's fun & games to scam innocent people and totally screw their lives up. Bcuz of the money they got from me, I had checks bounce & my bank account is negative $1k. So not only did they get me for $425, but another $1k bcuz checks bounced, over draft fees, returned check fees & all that crap. $1500 in debt & behind on bills all bcuz these guys wanted to screw some innocent girl & guy for sh*ts & giggles. They're pathetic pieces of sh*t and make me sick. The worst part, it all happened on my son's 7th birthday. :(
I know I'll never get my money back & I'm working myself out of debt bcuz of these *ssholes, but what else can I do? I just want to warn others so this doesn't happen to them. So they don't fall victim to these scams & end up in a financial hole like myself. Beware of these scams, and there are a bunch of different one's. Here are a few:
1 - The Loan Scam: calling & telling you that you're approved for a payday or personal loan anywhere from $100 to $5000. They'll tell you that you need to show proof that you can make the first loan payment, that there's a processing or unblocking fee, or any kind of fee to get you to send money.
2 - The Lottery Scam: calling & telling you that you've won XX million dollars & a new car (they told me I won 13.5 mill & a 2014 Pontiac). They'll tell you that you need to pay a fee to get an IRS stamp on the check so that no taxes are taken out, or that you need to pay a certified delivery fee.
3 - The Grant Scam: they'll call telling you that you've been approved for XX thousands of dollars in a government grant to go back to school. Not sure what made up fee they tell ya to get you to send money, but they figure something out. I know people that have had this phone call.
4 - The Tax Scam: they'll call telling you that you have been audited on your income tax return & they have found your return to be fraudulent. & in order to prevent criminal charges being pressed & possible jail time, they'll tell you to pay a fee to settle w/ the IRS. I've had a friend get this one.
They come up w/ some crazy stories to do get money, and most of them you can't understand bcuz they foreign. But they prey on vulnerable people, pick up on their weaknesses & take every last penny they can. & for what?! I have no clue. One of the guys that got me told me it was bcuz of what my people did to his people. I was like wtf?! He told me that I should be held responsible for what my ancestors did to his ancestors. Really?! They asked me for sex, asked me to be their girlfriend & told me they would find me and rape me. They're sick sick b*st*rds & deserve to rot in hell. But instead they're rolling in the money they've stolen from thousands of innocent people.
I hope at least one person reads this & will not be scammed. If so, then I did what I wanted to do w/ this post & it's to prevent someone else from getting hurt like myself.
Notice that every scam starts with
"They call and tell you"
Don't believe random strangers on the phone.
Random strangers calling and telling you anything is
a scam period.
I have 4 pages and 87 calls so far
from December 6, 2013 until now January 21, 2014
Calls from all over the country and Jamaica too
Begging for money, Scam calls. Stupid bullsh*t claims.