There is no doubt that this is a scam.
If you were to search on the company name "KOSSOW LODGED FINANCIAL COMPANY" you will see that the only results to come up are here at Scamwarners, a legitimate loan company would come up in searches.
Using Google maps to search on the address you will see that the address is in a residential area and certainly not an office. Using regular google to search you will find the the house was recently sold
A search on this line "Now you have an answer to your Financial " shows many fake loan companies using much the same wording to promote the 3% loan scams, here in Australia, we would be lucky to get a 7% loan for a well secured house let alone anything else, check your local banks and see what kind of interest rate they are offering, if this company was real, they may afford to be a touch cheaper but certainly not as low as this.
I have found with the fake loan companies that they will even tell you that you can have a 1% loan if you ask, of course, it doesn't cost them anything to tell you these things because they have no intention of actually loaning you any money.
The loan company is apparently based in London, yet they are telling you their lending ranges in US dollars, also note that the email says they will lend from $10,000 yet they will happily lend you any amount you ask for, this again is irrelevant as you will not receive any money from them.
The email is filled with grammatical errors, I will not point them out but for a loan company that will give loans of up to $500,000, you would expect their advertising to be better scrutinised.
The phone number given is a 4470 number, these phone numbers are a UK redirect service, what that means is that anybody, from anywhere in the world can set one of these phones up and then appear to be in the UK by offering a UK phone number, a person who actually was in teh UK would have no need for such a phone number, somebody in Africa who wanted to look like he was in the UK however would
Still on the phone number, a search on the phone number has 2 hits, one of them is this thread, the other is another person who is unsure as to if it is related to a scam.
Onto the email address used,
[email protected] a search on that email address currently has 2 hits, one of them is this thread, the other is listed on another antiscam site as a scammers email address.
From the email address I will move onto the domain name, in this case the scammer has set up a fake website in order to make his scam look more legitiamte
A whois lookup found this information;
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
Domain Name: KOSSOWLODGED.COM
Created on: 10-Feb-10
Expires on: 10-Feb-11
Last Updated on: 22-Feb-10
Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598
Technical Contact:
Private, Registration
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598
Domain servers in listed order:
NS55.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS56.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Fake sites are not my specialty but of note is that the site was set up recently with a 1 year registration, a legitimate loan company would have a much longer expiry and do you really want to trust sending your money to a company that has had a website open for just 2 months.
It also appears the person who has registered this site has gone to great trouble to hide their identity, I will pass this one onto the fake site killers to see what they can do.
It is a definate scam where the scammer has gone to a lot of trouble to look convincing, please do not reply.
