Victim Location 28716
Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan
I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM A MAN NAMED MARK RYAN STATING THAT HE WAS FROM FIRST FINANCIAL BANK AND THAT I HAD BEEN APPROVED FOR A LOAN OF $5,000. HE CALLED ME AND HE DID NOT SPEAK CLEAR ENGLISH AND HE WAS VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND. HE ASKED FOR MY BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND I TOLD HIM AFTER I WAS APPROVED I WOULD GIVE ALL MY INFORMATION. HE SAID NEVER MIND AND HUNG UP ON ME. HE THEN PROCEEDED TO SEND ME A TEXT SAYING LOAN CANCELLED THANKS ANYWAY. I TEXTED BACK SAYING I KNEW THIS WAS A SCAM. HE RESPONDED BACK SOME VULGAR NAME CALLING, SO AT THIS POINT I KNEW IT WAS DEFINITELY A SCAM. THE EMAIL HE SENT ME HAD ANOTHER EMAIL ATTACHED TO IT BY THE NAME OF ANGELA TICE HER EMAIL WAS [email protected] THIS IS, HER EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO HIS. I ALSO CALLED FIRST FINANCIAL BANK I THINK OUT OF OHIO NOT REALLY SURE. SHE SAID THEY HAVE HAD NUMEROUS ACCOUNTS OF SCAMMING GOING ON INVOLVING THE NAME OF FIRST FINANCIAL BANK WITH DIFFERENT NAMES.
Victim Location 54949
Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan
This call came in from "Mark Williams" with an obvious Eastern Indian accent. I recently applied for a loan online and he was offering me a low interest loan of $3,000 to $10,000 at a low rate. He already had my address and I told him where I bank, but when he asked for my account number, I said I needed verification that he was actually from First Financial Bank, as he reported. When I Googled the bankatfirst.com website he gave me for verification, the top result (thankfully) was a warning from the legitimate bank about a telephone scam. I reported the incident to the bank. The call back number provided by the scammer was 614-360-1650, but the call was received by 614-288-8391. FFB should know their name’s being used in a scam