We appreciate you contacting us about this issue. It is a Scam.
Fake Short Term or Payday Loan Scam
Calls from many area codes and numbers have all been reported to be scammers. These scammers use phony number and names to attempt to get potential victims to send in money on fake loans that appear to be from legitimate sources.
The names vary each time. These fraudsters have committed company identify theft against a Federal Credit Union.
Our company, www.valoans.com, does not offer personal or payday loans period. Anyone contacting you on behalf of our company are fraudsters. Please see our page at http://www.valoans.com/email-message . Do Not respond to them whatsoever. We ask that you send us any e-mails you have received from them to assistance@valoans.com as well as their phone number so we can turn that over to Federal investigators. Thank you.
This is very similar to the following Houston local CBS news story.
We appreciate you contacting us about this issue. It is a Scam.
Fake Short Term or Payday Loan Scam
Calls from many area codes and numbers have all been reported to be scammers. These scammers use phony number and names to attempt to get potential victims to send in money on fake loans that appear to be from legitimate sources.
The names vary each time. These fraudsters have committed company identify theft against a Federal Credit Union.
Our company, www.valoans.com, does not offer personal or payday loans period. Anyone contacting you on behalf of our company are fraudsters. Please see our page at http://www.valoans.com/email-message . Do Not respond to them whatsoever. We ask that you send us any e-mails you have received from them to assistance@valoans.com as well as their phone number so we can turn that over to Federal investigators. Thank you.
This is very similar to the following Houston local CBS news story.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Scammers-Pose-as-Veterans-Administration-to-Rip-Off-Victims-with-Promises-of-Loans-259119731.html
Caller type: Scammer
Number: 713-931-3692