Delta Equity group

New advance fee loan scam, couldn't find anything bad or good about this company 4 days ago, got scammed for $1100.00, a week later, i found a few ppl that they got!
http://www.deltaequitygroup.com
1 Penn Plz Fl C0NC6,
New York, NY 10119
They claim this is the address but it's not, this address belongs to a GNC store, the website is hosted by theplanet.com in dallas, Texas. email comes from webserversystem.com in chicago and i got a quick trace from an ip address from one of their computer that points to a isp server in Kempten, Germany. then i run into a problem from there, the account could be a dial-up which means that the person that was connected to the accout could be dialing in from anywhere!!!

Here is a message header if anybody wants to look at it

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and here is a copy of the email sent to me

You have chosen the “Express Option” via Western Union for the security deposit. Thus you are making the payment directly to the lender on behalf of Meridian National Trust. The loan will be funded within 1 business day by using this method. Here are the sending instructions for your security deposit:

Form 1

Receiver First Name: Fabiola


Receiver Last Name: Pamela


Under Expected Payout Location:

City: Valencia

State: N/A

Country: Spain

Transfer Amount: $1000.00

Western Union Fee: $68.00

Total: $1068.00






Please use the green and yellow person to person send form, it is also necessary to mark off the "money in minutes" receiver option as well.

Your total Security Deposit for your Loan is $1000.00 and the total you will spend at Western union is $1068.00 we will reimburse the difference amount of $68.00 back to you along with your loan.

To avoid any delays with the transfer, because nobody from Delta Equity Group is physically there with you making the exchange, it’s recommended that you indicate you know the receiver on the company’s behalf.

Once completed please contact me back with the MTCN number on the receipt along with your banking information for the direct deposit of your loan. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me at any time.






Warmest Regards,

Anderson Bennett
Senior Account Executive



DELTA EQUITY GROUP
1 Penn Plaza
New York, NY
10119
T: 1-877-679-0003 ext. 329
F: 1-646-201-4458
http://www.deltaequitygroup.com

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this email is intended for the recipient and may contain confidential information of Delta Equity Group or its affiliated organizations. Any unauthorized review, distribution, or use or the undertaking of any action in reliance on the information contained in this email or any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have unintentionally received this message in error, please delete or destroy it, all attachments and any copies, and notify the sending party.[code][/code]

they got me LOL

I am sorry to hear that you were scammed mikeman . Thank you for posting this information up for others to find.

Even though the address looks legitimate, the site was created early this month. I will flag this for our site killers to take a look at.

deltaequitygroup.com
IP address: 174.121.37.251
Registrar: ONLINENIC, INC.
Referrer: http://www.OnlineNIC.com
Created: 2011-09-08
Updated: 2011-09-08
Expires: 2012-09-08
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: ns1.sitelutions.com
Name Server: ns2.sitelutions.com

69.147.227.226 is a proxy IP. It is also found to be used by quite a few scammers and also by site attackers and spammers, in short a very dirty one.

Sorry to read of the predicament you're in mikeman. Posting the details is excellent as others conducting a search in future are now less likely to get fleeced.
I'm really confused here, re: 69.147.227.226
In one search the ip number goes back to ubiquityservers.com
Yet another search says, "could not find a domain name corresponding to this IP address."
atlanticbb.net is contained within the header which shows as synacor. Is synacor the originator here?

sorry the atlanticbb.net is my isp

Hi Mikeman,

could you please post all emails from them, or send them to my email address? We'll try to get the site offline. Thanks for posting!

THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPEN TO ME A WEEK AGO EXCEPT THEY HAD ME SEND MONEY TO BARCELONIA, SPAIN TO ANDRE HARLEN. I SENT THEN 1800.00!! HOW STUPID WAS I, BUT I WAS IN A DESPERATE SITUATION AND FOUND NOTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT THE COMPANY.

here is the only other email i got from them
Registration Date: 08/13/2011


Congratulations on your approval. Please find the attached loan agreement for your review. Should you have any questions, please call me at the number below as replies to this email are forwarded to the customer service department making it difficult for me to filter through emails.

When returning the required documents to indicate acceptance of the offer, please contact me to verify receipt of the completed documents.
Warmest Regards,

Anderson Bennett
Senior Account Executive



DELTA EQUITY GROUP
1 Penn Plaza
New York, NY
10119
T: 1-877-679-0003 ext. 329
F: 1-646-201-4458
www.deltaequitygroup.com

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this email is intended for the recipient and may contain confidential information of Delta Equity Group or its affiliated organizations. Any unauthorized review, distribution, or use or the undertaking of any action in reliance on the information contained in this email or any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have unintentionally received this message in error, please delete or destroy it, all attachments and any copies, and notify the sending party.

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sorry to hear about your $1800.00, i wasn't in a desprate need of the loan, mine was a deposit on a motorcycle so i didnt lose any money that hurt the bills or anything, i posted the info as soon as i figured out what had happened

the same thing happened to me but they cost me about 4500.00 i couldnt find anything bad about them when i did a search, they claim to be giving me a refund on the 13 of september we shall see but i doubt it. Do you guys know of any way we can sue them, to get our money back....

Welcome to ScamWarners ohmyhaley1993. I am sorry to hear that you lost money to a scammer. That amount is real significant.

To sue them, you would have to know:
1. Who they actually are.
2. Where they actually are
3. How to have them served in the jurisdiction you are in and the jurisdiction they are in.
4. You would have to know how the court system works in the above jurisdictions.
5. You would have to prove that you sent money to the person you are suing.
6. You would have to prove they received the money you sent them.
7. You would have to prove that you paid them for something and that you didn't just give them a gift.
8. You would have to show up to the court and present your case.
9. You would have to win your case.
10. You would have to be able to collect from them or attach something of value to recover your money IF you win the court case.
11. You could hire a private detective and an attorney to do this work for you. They will each require a retainer to be sure you don't skip out of them.
12. You need to understand the phrase, "Throwing good money after bad." Because that is what you would be doing.

I guarantee that no matter where you sent the money to, that is NOT where the scammer is. I guarantee that the scammer has not given you his real name, address or anything else. Sadly, the only real thing is the money you have lost.

I am sorry to give you this sad and unfortunate news. It is hard to do.

Please be aware that scammers do also operate Recovery Scams in which they say they will recover your money for you. Of course there is an advanced fee for that too payable by Western Union or MoneyGram. Look at this thread: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3198

Don't pay for anything by Western Union or MoneyGram. You have no recourse if things start to go badly.

I am so sorry to hear about the people that have been taken advantage of from this company! God awful shame. I too have been scammed by this company and they claim to give a refund! is there any way to sue this so called company by mass??? So many complaints. The email that they sent to me goes as follows:

Hello XXXXXXX,





Congratulations on your approval. Please find the attached loan agreement for your review. Should you have any questions, please call me at the number below as replies to this email are forwarded to the customer service department making it difficult for me to filter through emails.

When returning the required documents to indicate acceptance of the offer, please contact me to verify receipt of the completed documents.




Warmest Regards,

Anderson Bennett
Senior Account Executive



DELTA EQUITY GROUP
1 Penn Plaza
New York, NY
10119
T: 1-877-679-0003 ext. 329
F: 1-646-201-4458
www.deltaequitygroup.com <http://www.deltaequitygroup.com/>

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this email is intended for the recipient and may contain confidential information of Delta Equity Group or its affiliated organizations. Any unauthorized review, distribution, or use or the undertaking of any action in reliance on the information contained in this email or any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have unintentionally received this message in error, please delete or destroy it, all attachments and any copies, and notify the sending party.


OH, by the way, the website no longer exists! I also had a man call me by the name of Sean claiming to be a manager and that they needed MORE money. They got $842.00 out of me! I feel absolutely foolish. So if there is anyone out there that has sued this company or plans to, please let me know!! thank you!!!

desmondaire, I am so sorry you and all the other new members here lost money, and large sums, too.

You need to realise that there is no company behind this scam. There is a group of scammers operating from West Africa, probably from a grubby internet café. That means they are completely anonymous.

Their gang boss has spent about $ 20 to rent webspace for one year and has created a fraudulent website. One year is the minimum period you can register a website; they know that sooner or later someone will report it as fraudulent and it will be closed.

In the meantime, they spam their advertisement left, right, and centre with literally thousands of emails. If only a few victims pay, say $ 500 each, their investment has made good profit. However, nobody knows how many persons have fallen prey to them, these are desperate times with unemployment rate that high.

By now it becomes clear that there is
- no company to sue with a civil lawsuit
- no individual to catch by law enforcement.

Again, I'm sorry to tell you this disgusting truth.
Please don't feel ashamed; not many persons have experience with this type of fraud.

Mikeman Thank you for posting this I thought I was the only one they got to. In August I applied for a Loan and they answered saying I was approved. I also recieved the same letter from Anderson Bennett and they also had me send money to Spain. The next day when my loan was to be deposited I recieved a call frm Nathan Peterson saying they needed more money. I had already sent them 930.00 plus the WU fee 68.00. Anderson all along kept saying he understood my nervousness and he assured me this was legit. I asked for refund and recieved a letter promising the refund in my account today 9/12. And now their phone extensions are invalid and emails are no delivery and when you call you get answering machine. Iwant so bad to get these guys so if anyone is able to figure it out I will join you in putting them away.

I am so sorry for all the people out there they have scammed along with me.

Sincerely DKB