Advance fee loan scams and fraudulent loan sites.
#12169 by Clair Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:57 am
This one claims to be Assurance Trust Loan Firm and is using the name Samuel Akin and email address [email protected]. They have asked for payments to be sent to this person:
Receiver's Name: Mr. Inegbedion Sunday,
Receiver's Location: 147 Upper Bam Cast Way,
Country: Nigeria.

Here are some email examples:
Good day,
Are you a business man or woman ? Are you in any financial mess or do you need funds to start up your own business?.
Do you need loan to settle your debt or pay off your bills or start a nice business?.

Have you been provided illegal loan document from illegal lender and you turned down the loan due to the illegal document?.

Do you have a low credit score and you are finding it hard to obtain capital loan from local banks/other financial institutes?.
Do you need a loan or funding for any reason such as:

a) Personal Loan,Business Expansion,
b) Business Start-up ,Education,
c) Debt Consolidation,
d) Hard Money Loans.

We offer loan at low interest rate of 0.4% and with no credit check.

We offer Personal loans, debt consolidation loans, venture capital, business loans, education loans, home loans or "loans for any reason!".

However, Our method offers you the chance to state the amount of loan needed and also the duration you can afford.

This gives you a real chance to get the funds you need!.

If interested Applicants should get back to me on my email at:
[email protected]


Good day,

This is to inform you that in regards to the loan application details you sent to us, we have been able to prepare a well calculated loan terms document and an agreement schedule, i would like you to acknowledge the content of the loan agreement schedule below carefully:

LOAN PAYMENT SCHEDULE:
In response to your letter for a Loan Terms and Condition. Charges are made on percentage based on amount of loan applied for. First of all, we have to give you a summary of the Loan Charges which is as follows:

* Legal Fees:-------------------------------------------------- $153.00 USD
* Administrative/Processing:------------------------------- $257.00 USD
* Inspection/Verification Team:---------------------------- $133.00 USD
* Security:----------------------------------------------------- $115.00 USD
* Total:--------------------------------------------------------- $658 USD

However, payment of Loan Charges can be made in any suitable currency of your choice after conversion. Use conversion rates here: http://www.xe.com/ucc

LENDER will transfer the loan to BORROWER via the desired transfer option by the BORROWER.

BORROWER will pay [$658 USD] for the loan processing charges.
Note: Should Loan be called off by you after payment of Loan Charges, ASSURANCE TRUST LOAN FIRM will make refund of Loan Charges except Inspection/Verification Charges.

LOAN AGREEMENT/CONDITIONS:
{ 1 } The applicant will start the repayment of loan at the end of every month starting from 3 months after loan has been transfered.

{ 2 } Failure to pay back the loan at this expected date/period, legal actions will be taken against the applicant by our attorney immediately.

{ 3 } Applicant who is unable to meet with the repayment will be given 2 weeks more as a grace period before legal actions will be taken.

REPAYMENT:
This is how BORROWER WIIL REPAY:BORROWER will repay the amount of this note in [240] equal uninterrupted monthly instaments of [$6,125 USD] each on the [30th] of each month.

LATE CHARGE:
Any instalment not paid within [21] days of its due date shall be subject to a late charge of [2%] of this payment.

DEFAULT:
If for any reason BORROWER fail to make the payment on time,BORROWER shall be in default.The LENDER can then demand immediate payment of the entire remaining unpaid balance of this loan without giving anyone further notice.If BORROWER have not paid the full amount of the loan when the final payment is due the LENDER will charge me interest on the unpaid balance at [0.8%] per month.

We are also glad to inform you that you have met our first level of requirment for the loan transaction.

Attached to this mail is the Loan Terms Document, you'll be required to print out the document from your computer system, sign at where necessary, scan to your computer system and send back to us via email attachement for the loan approval.

Note that incase you cannot print it out and sign from your computer system or you do not have a printer, you can admit you have signed the document by using the below mail writing:

I...............your name....................... agree to the Terms Document Agreement schedule.

Should you agree to these terms, you will be given the details of your next line of actions which will include procedures for the transfer of your loan, once we receive the signed copy, we'll inform you on what to do next as regards the loan processing.

Regards as i look forward hearing from you as soon as possible.

Faithfully,
Mr. Samuel Akin.


Email header, I get this IP as originating from the US: 66.186.34.252 UNITED STATES VPLS Inc. d/b/a Krypt Technologies, Orange, CA. But the scammer has requested money to be sent to Nigeria.

Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.231.31.203 with SMTP id z11cs193677ibc;
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:43:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:43:47 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from web24713.mail.ird.yahoo.com (web24713.mail.ird.yahoo.com [212.82.104.186])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id 10si4278332ewy.75.2009.07.30.11.43.46;
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:43:46 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 212.82.104.186 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of [email protected]) client-ip=212.82.104.186;
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:43:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Assurance Trust Loan Firm <[email protected]>
Subject: Attn: Raphael Musa - TRANSACTION TERMINATED, GO ELSE WHERE AND APPLY FOR A LOAN.
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Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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#44341 by spensaur Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:26 pm
We have looked into this issue and would like to report that this host is not reachable from the internet and is not bound to any device within our network. I notice that this post is almost 2 years old but we received a call regarding this issue and would like to make sure it's resolved. Thanks.

%nmap 66.186.34.252

Starting Nmap 4.85BETA7 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-01-12 14:00 PST
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -PN
Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 2.07 seconds

Regards,

Spenser Ono, vTAC NOC & Abuse Engineer
VPLS, Inc.
Tel: (213) 406-9027
Fax: (866) 599-9593
24x7 vTAC: (866) 616-9099
www.vpls.net

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