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Abuse / Warning page
To all aidmates:
Please, DO NOT POST YOUR EMAIL addresses! Keep your privacy. Communicate via private or public AIDPAGE MESSAGES - it is easy, convenient and above all it is SAFE.


--- August 3, 2006


I was approached by an aidmate with question about a fraudulent loan offer. This gave me the idea to create an Abuse / Warning page where all aidmates can post their similar experience in order to warn others.

Given the number of aidmates that are talking about financial problems, and the fact that Aidpage is free for everybody, unfortunately, it is unavoidable to have spammers, liars and dishonest people. We are doing as much as we can to keep the system open and at the same moment to identify such parties. The system is performing automatic post-processing for known fraudulent schemes and is deleting the identified accounts. Aidpage is removing some accounts – mostly international Nigerian-like “loan givers”. This is why, once in a while, some of you are receiving email notifications for messages. Then, when you login, there is no message - it was deleted in the meantime by the system. Unfortunately, we are far from 100% successful in this identification process.

So, what should we do? Here are several suggestions I can think of:

  1. Use common sense!
  2. Be careful and communicate through Aidpage only. Nobody needs your email or phone to talk to you. They can do it easily on Aidpage and yet they would not have access to your information (unless you let them).
  3. Any legitimate lender or grant giving organization should identify itself publicly. Such institutions cannot be hidden or secret.
  4. Whoever claims to represent an organization should be able to post all pertinent information about him/herself and the organization – address, phone, full name, type of business etc – right here on Aidpage. This is a simple advertising for the company and it cannot be a secret. On the other hand, you don’t have to give any information about yourself – their business info is public, your personal info is not!
  5. Once you’ve got all the info, go ahead and check them out. Ask aidmates that you can trust for advice. Make sure you know with whom you are dealing.
  6. Then, there are individuals willing to help. This is the best thing happening on Aidpage. However, their personal information is as private as yours. They may not want to expose themselves publicly and this is absolutely understandable. Anonymous charity is common.
  7. In case someone wants to send you money, they can do it via Paypal. You just need your own Paypal account – it is easy and free. This way, you don’t have to give out any sensitive personal information – like home address, phone, bank accounts, social security number, birth date, etc. You may consider creating a special email for Paypal only.

I do believe good people vastly outnumber the bad guys, anyway.

 


Comment: Hi Everyone, I am new to this...
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Hi Everyone, I am new to this site but I have been reading all your comments regarding equimark investment group. I was searching for this company and this site came up. I was actually scammed yesterday with a similiar company. The name is Brace Lending Group in Long Beach California. I was contacted by them telling me that I was approved for a loan and I needed to wire $1000 to some guy named Peter Walsh in Canada. I was leary but I asked questions and checked the Better Business Bureau. There were no negative reports on them. They sent me a loan contract and I had someone else look it over. He said it looked legit. I wired the money yesterday. Today the money was supposed to be in my account it wasn't. I called the person I was dealing with Millie Kaleri and left 8-10 messages. She never returned my calls. I also started dialing in extensions and what a surprise nobody picked up their phone. On the website www.bracelendinggroup.com it lists two customer service numbers when you call them one disconnects you and the other is a pager. I called information and they had no number or address listed. If they were legit you should be able to get ahold of them. I am so upset right now. I filed a complaint on the labbb site. I am in such a financial mess right now. I don't know what to do. I am also scared because they have all my information and bank account number. I don't want this to happen to anyone else. Please beware. I also received a call from Andrew Bennett at Equimark Investment Group and he had approved me on a loan also with 4 payments upfront. I called him to ask questions about the loan and he asked me for the information and told me that they had a fraud department and maybe they could help me out. Oh my Gosh. I am telling him about all this and Him and his company are also a scam. How are all these people involved in this when they know they are hurting people and nothing has been done about it? How come they haven't been prosecuted? I also called moneygram of course they received the money on the other end. The girl that told me this said this is a huge scam right now with Canada and Nigeria. She said to file a police report and then maybe they could track this person down in Canada that took the money. Apparently they have to show id. I don't know what to do. Thanks for listening.
The Technical Support Saga

Have you ever wondered what would be to find a really nice software product that you want, that is reasonably priced and working flawlessly on your personal computer from the first installation? Sounds good, huh? Imagine now, for a small problem you call the technical support,… suddenly a real, knowledgeable and friendly person answers the phone and within a few minutes everything is back to normal flawless performance… Yeah! You have got me now – I am dreaming.

Well, let us wakeup and take a little different approach, less demanding, perhaps more realistic. Let us say the first two requests are met – the software is nicely designed and built, and you want it. Let us not be way too demanding and let us not start complaining after the fifth unsuccessful installation attempt on two different off the shelf computers built by the two of the leading computer manufacturers. It is not a big deal after all. You can always call a few skilful friends to help, call uncle Harry who is computer wiz working for Dell or IBM and the best part – while they are wrestling with the installation of the software, you can listen to some nice music on the phone while hopelessly waiting somebody from the technical support to answer. Sound’s familiar? I told you that we will get down to earth, didn’t I.

Don’t loose hope. Wait! Somebody will pick up the phone. They always do… eventually. And here it begins – none of the observations on the problem that your small team made is worth anything. Please, let us be patient and listen to the technical support gurus. They know what they are doing when they ask you to restart the computer 2-3 times, unplug all the cables and plug them in again, check the weather outside or check the phase of the moon… and some other important manipulations. You better follow closely the instructions if you want to spear your own time – the tech guru obviously enjoys unlimited time. Who cares for the next sucker on the phone - he is listening to the nice music and should not complain.

Ultimately we are getting to the point where it becomes absolutely clear that you need to buy a piece of new hardware for your computer in order to run this software. Yeah, yeah… I remember that both of the machines that you are playing around with are brand new and the leading manufacturers make them… I know that they meet all the listed system requirements… anyway, I am telling you – you need this hardware. Let us not be shortsighted – why argue – your new computer will become even better after all. The software was reasonably priced. You saved a couple dollars. What is the problem with spending a couple hundred more to achieve two goals at once – working software and a better computer. There is a small obstacle though – your local electronic store does not care such an advanced piece of hardware, but that is for you own good – you can order it via the Internet and save even more money. Smart, huh? Usually, in less than 10-15 days we will be almost ready to try the software again. Call you small army of helpers again to install the hardware for you – they have nothing better to do anyway. Look at their faces when they try to install the software again and get the same nonsense error message – it is fun. If you stupidly forgot to start calling the technical support right at the beginning of these events, now all of you will listen to the boring music for a while.

Naturally, you can’t talk to the same person as before but it is not that bad. The new guy sounds even more knowledgeable and he is attacking the problem from a slightly different angle. He is not even mentioning the word hardware and he is kind of talking for different things. You are under the impression that he has no idea about you case. The truth is that he indeed has no idea about your case. There may or may not be a record of your case, but even if there was a record, why bother reading it, since you are on the phone anyway and you will tell him the story.

This guy begins guiding you to update every single driver in your newly purchased system. Then he is making you close anything and everything that is running on your computer, including the antivirus software and the firewall. The firewall may need only to be setup correctly and to let it be there, but you don’t know how to do it anyway, so don’t complain and shut the darn thing off, please. Once we bring up-to-date every possible thing in our new computer and all the test shows that our machine is really ready to do some computing, the tech guy is instructing you to uninstall the software and to start a new installation again… only to get exactly the same result as before. Then… then there is a pause. The problem is complicated and should be elevated to the next technical support level. Wow… next level! I bet you never thought of such a thing but now while you are listening to the annoying music again you are thinking… you are thinking what support level you might need if the installation actually passes.

In the mean time your helpers are bored to dead, run out of beer and finally decide that they have reached their limits. They are living you on your own.

After good 10 minutes or so the music is interrupted by the voice of the same person that you spent last 45 minutes with. What else did you expect?… only the level has changed. Now the tech-guy is giving you an Internet URL address where you can find and download the latest patch for the software that you purchased a few days ago. The patch is applied flawlessly and… YES!!!… No, no, don’t get me wrong the software is not running yet but the error message is different. It is somehow refreshing, isn’t it? Now the tech-guy makes a really long pause - so long that you are not sure whether he is still on the other end of the line. Since you have nothing else to do but wait, you have enough time to start your second machine with the off the shelf hardware and old drivers, and to apply the software patch. Then suddenly… the software starts running on this computer. Wow! Unbelievable! You proudly announce this fact to the tech-guy perhaps expecting to sense some confusion or maybe to get some explanation about the recommendation to purchase the expensive piece of hardware that you obviously don’t need. Don’t be so naive! All you get is – “Good job! Finally WE did it. What else can I do for you?” Now you got really scared – what if you accidentally ask him about that weak sound that you heard the other day while you were driving your car… better don’t. Just say thank you and be happy. After all you have enough reasons to be happy – The software is running and you made it yourself. You also have a really well updated and upgraded second computer. It is true that you may need to call again your helpers to remedy some of the updates made in order to make it usable but what is the big deal. Forget about this now, and let us concentrate on the running software – we have more fun on the way.

Now since we have running software it is completely new ball game. It doesn’t take long to realize that whoever wrote this software never had any idea that there is other software that you may want to use on your computer. The guys that wrote this piece of software had in mind all the resources that you computer can offer.

Comment: I Guess Equimark Investment...
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I Guess Equimark Investment strikes Again, I myself have been scammed, and now I have a big debt to pay. These people are riduculous! And somebody needs to stop them! Ps. I need a way to get a 5000 loan asap and get back on track.... I need some financial help...somebody please help me........
Comment: Hello, I was recently contacted...
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Hello, I was recently contacted by Netwest Finance through a person calling himself Kevin Wong. He promised to lend me a large sum of money etc. I checked out Netwest on the web and found that the company name was being used as part of a scam. I never answered the ad. There is another USA based scam from a group calling itself American Loan Request. The principal person called himself Andy Campbell and his sidekick is Bob Sullivan, they scammed me out of $1800.00 through false loan promises. At the time they were operating out of Denver Colorado. Arnold
Comment: does anyone out there no where...
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does anyone out there no where i can get a legitimate loan of around $5000 for bad credit. I dont want ot be scammed and i was wondering if any one can help. thanks ranna1119
Comment: Got a call from Equimark today...
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Got a call from Equimark today same story as yours buyer beware. Also got a call from Highland Financial Group located in Ontario beware of them also same story co-signer with at least 60,000 per year income, 10-15% down sent to canada,super low payments, only problem is there is no company by that name there except a Insurance group. And when asked for a web site it showed they were located in Frankfurt Illinois. BIG SURPRISE their not there either!
Comment: hello i wish i had found this...
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hello i wish i had found this website before equimark got my money.I FEEL SO STUPID!Iknew something was not right,but like some of you i had someone look over the contract and they thought it was ligit also.Did anyone get back anything?
Comment: I recently received an e-mail...
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I recently received an e-mail from a guy named DR. Ted Pearson. He said he found my loan application on an ad. He said I needed to write a formal letter telling why I needed it, what I needed it for, and if I had any collateral, he then said e-mail it to me and I will forward it to our datamanagement department for consideration. He said he was in africa at the time working on a $9 million dollar collateral deal. He said if I was considered, I would receive an e-mail back from the datamanagement department saying I was considered. Well I just received a consideration e-mail back and it said I now need to request a "grant form" from this dr. ted pearson guy and then it would take them two days to determine if I would get the loan or not. It is a place called ROYAL FINANCE, and the guys name from datamanagement was Anton Whyte. Does anybody know about this?
Comment: I was scammed by equimark....
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I was scammed by equimark. I was contacted by a matthew davidson and a colin baxter. They said that they could get me a high loan with a low intrest rate. I filled out all the "paper work" and then they said they needed a collateral payment of 1200 and that my money would be in my bank the next day,it wasn't. I called them over and over but all they would give me were excuses and then they would put me on hold or hang up or they wouldn't even answer. I filles a comlaint with bbc and fdc and filed a police report. Everyone says there's nothing I can do. Basically I lost all my money. If anyone knows what I can do, please help.
Comment: I also go this same email,...
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I also go this same email, but I am dealing with Dr.Rose Betley. I have contacted the lawyer and he wants money 1000 fast 2 day turn around -1200 one week turn around time to sign the papers half-payment now then the rest when I recieve the money (sent Western Union). I have not sent any money nor will I. I have asked Dr Betley about a thousand question and she is very good about answering everyone of them. I have also tried to back several times and she pulls me back in everytime. I can't imagine them working this hard for 500 to 600 dollars. I will continue to play the game for awhile. If you find out anything else please let me know
Comment: i wish i would have seen this...
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i wish i would have seen this sooner, i placed a loan for 5,500 and it cost me 864.00 to apply. well they didn't call me and when i got through they told me i was declined for the loan and they were supposed to wire my money back but no. every time i call, they hang up on me, no one ever answers the phone i think i got screwed
please help I am so behind

can anyone out there help me i desperately need 5000 dollars to catch up some past do bills and pay off several cash advances.  My husband does not knoow about any of this and i cannot tell him for fear that he will leave me and take the boys.  I made a huge mistake in our checkbook and before i was able to catch it the damage was done,  now my only hope is to obtain the money to fix it and catch up.  I would have been able to do this however about three months ago I was let go from my job and it took me nearly two months to find a new job it is a better job with better pay but getting caught up is almost impossible.  please help

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