Ameritrust Lending Service Advance payment loans bogus Wilton Connecticut

My son found this company online and filled out an app. He was trying to pay us back for a surmounting debt, and consolidate his credit cards. They contacted him and offered him a $15000 at 6% interest, but they needed 8 months payments before they would disperse the loan. It sounded unlike anything we were familiar with, but we lent him the $1750 to wire them (in Canada, no less) thinking we would see the loan come through the next day as promised. Instead they requested another matching amount be wired saying that the lender had been advised to require more collateral. I began to get irritated and contacted "Paul Myers" to get confirmation and get some of my questions asked. I told him I had a large family,3 in college, and couldn't afford to lose this money...it was needed to make our bills for the month. He assured me they were a legitimate company and that we would see the money within 3 hours. He was very believable, and I wrestled overnight trying to decide if I should risk it.

I began to do deeper research, but could find little on the web. I finally contacted the Attorney General and Secretary of State website in CO and CT and checked for licenses. No one had heard of them, and at the DOB Consumer Affairs Dept, I found someone who had already had a phone call from someone else who had been scammed like I had that same morning!

Mom of seven
Gunnison, Colorado
U.S.A.