Steve Liam Cole Zaleski HALLBERG FINANCIAL LLC Steve Zaleski proposed $15,000 loan with 1.0% processing upfront fee, but never delivered the loan in time Chicago Illinois

Steve Zaleski approached me by sending a text message to my cell phone out of blue on Sep. 01, by telling "I can help you in funding". I neglected such scam text message but he continued sending texts urging me to chat about the funding needs. Then he sent emails to my designated email address describing how his lending program works.

His proposal was just 1.0% of loan processing fee on whatever amount of loan and applicable interest rate was 5.0% p.a.  He sent his ID a driver's license of State of Illinois and a link to his company's corporate information at "Illinois Corporates Profiles" to pretend as if he were under corporate role as legitimate lender.  (Actually I investigated the company registration at Illinois State Corporation Service and detected the company named, "Hallberg Financial LLC" was involuntarily dissolved in August 2018, and could know that he was utilizing a deceased company's name to pretend as if he were a part of the company.

After certain discussion made, I requested his timely funding for $15,000 to cover my personal financial need with the agreed 1.0% loan processing fee ($150). At the same time, I told that I had short of money and could only pay $100 upfront and $50 after receipt of the loan fund. The loan agreement sent and signed on September 4 with such description of loan fee $150 only. The $100 fee paid by me on September 5, but loan was not delivered and he never responded despite my repetitive inquiries.

A few days later he came back by telling, "The contract tells you pay $150 but you only paid $100 that wa why you did not receive the loan on time". Certain dispute made, but anyway I paid $50 in addition to complete the timely delivery of loan, but no loan delivered.

Just recenlty, he again came back and told, "your paid $150 was not enough to deliver the loan. You pay $20 more to receive the loan." With strong concerns, I dared to pay such $20 but no loan was delivered.

Today he again came back saying, "if you seriously want to receive my loan, you must pay $50 more then everything will be settled". At this point, I stopped as I have dealt with this man knowingly he was just a scammer at small scale and decided to file scam report to prevent any future serious persons from being victimized by this kind of wicked malicious scam guy.