May 25
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Why having no credit history is a drawback?
The problem with having no credit history is that the lender has no means to measure the risk involved in lending to someone with no credit history. Unless you can provide some other asset as collateral besides the car, the lender is incapable of establishing the loan amount he can grant, the interest rate he will charge and the number of installments or loan length.
What the lender wonders is why someone with no credit history never requested a loan. Was it that he never needed one before? Or was it that he already knew he wouldn’t get approved?
What can be done to solve the no credit issue?
There are many measures you can take in order to work out this problem. What you need to do is to start building yourself a healthy credit history. There are many financial products you can acquire in order to get the financial institutions start reporting to the credit agencies and thus start building a credit history.
Payday loans do not require credit checks, so you’ll be able to apply for a payday loan without worrying about not having a credit history. The problem with payday loans is that the interest rate charged for this kind of products is very high and you may not need the money, so it makes no sense to request an expensive loan just to get your payment recorded into your credit report. Besides, you’ll need a savings account and a steady income which leads us to the really first step:
If you don’t have one already, open a savings account with a bank and if possible a checking account too, this will contribute to your credit history building process. Since any transactions made with this accounts will be recorded and reported to credit agencies.
If possible ask for a credit card, use it for daily expenses you would otherwise pay in cash and pay the full balance when the credit card payment is due. This will be recorded into your credit history too and will raise your credit score significantly.
The next step would be to find a lender, the smartest thing to do is to request one first at the financial institution where you opened the accounts. However if you can’t get approved there, you may want to try applying with other lenders. There are many online car loan lenders dealing with bad credit car loans specially designed for those with bad credit, no credit or even bankruptcy.
Getting recommendation letters from your employer and from any creditor that doesn’t report to credit agencies stating that you are a good payer, will greatly improve your chances of getting approved for a loan. It may sound a idealistic thing to do but I assure you that the lender will take those letters into account too when making a decision.
Feb 28
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Purchase scams
spamming them and directly asking them if they can ship to them using credit cards to pay.
An example of such email is as follows:
From: XXXXXX XXXXXX [XXXXXXX@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: International order enquiry
Goodday Sales, This is XXXXXX XXXXXXX and I will like to place an order for some products in your store, But before I proceed with listing my requirements, I will like to know if you accept credit card and can ship internationally to Lagos, Nigeria. Could you get back to me with your website so as to forward you the list of my requirements as soon as possible. Regards, XXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXX Inc. 9999 XXXXX street, Mushin, Lagos 23401, Nigeria Telephone: 234-1-99999999, Fax: 234-1-9999999, Email: XXXXXXXXX@hotmail.com
Most likely, a few weeks or months after the merchant ships and charges the Nigerian credit card, he/she will be hit with a chargeback from the credit card processor and lose all the money.
Counterfeit Postal Money Orders
According to the FBI and postal inspectors, there has been a significant surge in the use of Counterfeit Postal Money Orders since October 2004. More than 3,700 counterfeit postal money orders (CPMOs) were intercepted by authorities from October to December 2004, and according to the USPS, the “quality” of the counterfeits is so good that ordinary consumers can easily be fooled.
On March 9, 2005, the FDIC issued an alert stating that it had learned that counterfeit U.S. Postal Money Orders had been presented for payment at financial institutions.
On April 26, 2005, Tom Zeller Jr. wrote an article in The New York Times regarding a surge in the quantity and quality of the forging of U.S. Postal Money Orders, and its use to commit online fraud. The article shows a picture of a man that had been corresponding with a woman in Nigeria through a dating site, and received several fake postal money orders after the woman asked him to buy a computer and mail it to her.
Who has received Counterfeit Postal Money Orders (CPMOs):
Small Internet retailers.
Classified advertisers.
Individuals that have been contacted through email or chat rooms by fraudsters posing as prospective social interests or business partners, and convinced to help the fraudsters unknowingly.
The penalty for making or using counterfeit postal money orders is up to ten years in jail and a US,000 fine.
Online automotive fraud
There are two basic schemes in online automotive fraud:
A fraudster posts a vehicle for sale on an online site, generally for luxury or sports cars advertised for thousands less than market value. The details of the vehicle, including photos and description, are typically lifted from sites such as ebay motors or Autoscout24 and re-posted elsewhere. An interested buyer, hopeful for a bargain, emails the seller, who responds saying the car is still available but is located overseas. He then instructs the buyer to send a deposit via wire transfer to initiate the “shipping” process. The unwitting buyer wires the funds, and does not discover until days or weeks later that they were scammed.
A fraudster feigns interest in an actual vehicle for sale on the Internet. The “buyer” explains that a client of his is interested in the car, but due to an earlier sale that fell through has a certified check for thousands more than the asking price and requests the seller to send the balance via wire transfer. If the seller agrees to the transaction, the buyer sends the certified check via express courier (typically from Nigeria). The seller takes the check to their bank, which makes the funds available immediately. Thinking the bank has cleared the check, the seller follows through on the transaction by wiring the balance to the buyer. Days later, the check bounces and the seller realizes they have been scammed. But the money has long since been picked up and is not recoverable.
In another type of fraud, a fraudster contacts the seller of an automobile, asking for the vehicle identification number (VIN), putatively to check the accident record of the vehicle. However, the supposed buyer actually uses the VIN to make fake papers for a stolen car that is then sold.
COUNTERFEIT CASHIERS CHEQUE SCAM: This recent scam has been reported in Atlanta and Minneapolis. Real estate property owners placing advertisements on Craigslist or rent.com receive an e-mail response from a “24 year old in the U.K. on a research program in the United States”. Addresses include john.yearwood__@yahoo.co.uk and kevin_taylor@excite.com.
The first inquiry seems legitimate. The second usually comes with request for more information, and a bogus attachment from JAPAN TOBACCO INC (who has posted information about this scam on its site) indicating that the “student” has won a part time scholarship from the JT UK office. The scam comes with the third e-mail, a request for name and address so that the counterfeit cashiers cheque can be sent. The amount supposedly includes the rent and fees plus an overage for the “student’s” travel.
The owner is instructed to cash the cheque and wire the difference back to the student so that they can travel to the U.S. The photos often include a young man in graduation uniform from his college (Note: U.K. colleges are the equivalent to high schools, not universities. One photo includes a rather dumpy, depressed looking girlfriend who must be aware of the scam). Because of the lag between the cashing and clearing of the cheque, the owner does not realize he/she has been had until their account is debited the counterfeit cost and the wired sum. Greedy owners may even decide to keep some of the cheque, only to be had themselves later. It is best not to respond to this type of e-mail and requiring background checks before cashing first rent payments.
Cash the check system
In some cases, fraudsters approach merchants and ask for large orders: ,000 to 0,000, and agree to pay via wire transfer in advance. After brief negotiation, the buyers gives an excuse about the impossibility of sending a bank wire transfer. The buyer then offers to send a check, stating that the merchant can wait for the check to clear before shipping any goods. The check received, however, is a counterfeit of a check from a medium to large U.S. company. If asked, the buyer will claim that the check is money owed from the large company. The merchant deposits the check and it clears, so the goods are sent. Only later, when the larger company notices the check, will the merchant’s account be debited.
In some cases, the fraudsters agree to the wire but ask the merchant for their bank’s address. The fraudsters send the counterfeited check directly to the merchant’s bank with a note asking to deposit it to the merchant’s account. Unsuspecting bank officers deposit the check, and then the fraudster contacts the merchant stating that they made a direct deposit into the merchant’s account.
In other cases, fraudsters approach merchants for smaller orders: 00 to ,000 offering to pay with a check. They send the check and the instructions state that the merchant has to deposit the check, wait for it a couple days to clear and send the “excess” funds vira Western Union money transfer to an account in another country. The fraudsters send fake checks but drawn on the real accounts of large U.S. companies, which will probably clear immediately.
Re-shippers
Re-shipping scams trick individuals or small businesses into shipping goods to countries with weak legal systems. The goods are generally paid for with stolen or fake credit cards.
Nigerian version
In the Nigerian version, the fraudsters have armies of people actively recruiting single women from western countries through chat and matchmaking sites. At some point, the criminal promises to marry the lady and come to their home country in the near future. Using some excuse the criminal asks permission of his “future wife” to ship some goods he is going to buy before he comes. As soon as the woman accepts the fraudster uses several credit cards to buy at different Internet sites simultaneously. In many cases the correct billing address of the cardholder is used, but the shipping address is the home of the unsuspecting “future wife”. Around the time when the packages arrive, the criminal invents an excuse for not coming and tells his “bride” that he urgently needs to pick up most or all the packages. Since the woman has not spent any money, she sees nothing wrong and agrees. Soon after, she receives a package delivery company package with pre-printed labels that she has agreed to apply to the boxes that she already has at home. The next day, all boxes are picked up by the package delivery company and shipped to the criminal’s real address (in Nigeria or elsewhere). After that day the unsuspecting victim stops receiving communications from the “future husband” because her usefulness is over. To make matters worse, in most cases the criminals were able to create accounts with the package deliverer, based on the woman’s name and address. So, a week or two later, the woman receives a huge freight bill from the shipping company which she is supposed to pay because the goods were shipped from her home. Unwittingly, the woman became the criminal re-shipper and helped him with his criminal actions.
East European version
This is a variant of the Nigerian Version, in which criminals recruit people through classified advertising. The criminals present themselves as a growing European company trying to establish a presence in the U.S. and agree to pay whatever the job applicant is looking to make, and more. The fraudsters explain to the unsuspecting victim that they will buy certain goods in the U.S. which need to be re-shipped to a final destination in Europe. When everything is agreed they start shipping goods to the re-shipper’s house. The rest is similar to the Nigerian Version. Sometimes, when the criminals send the labels to be applied to the boxes, they also include a fake cheque, as payment for the re-shipper’s services. By the time the cheque bounces unpaid, the boxes have been picked up already and all communication between fraudster and re-shipper has stopped. Here’s an example recruiting email received via SPAM on Oct 2, 2007:
XXXXX Inc. invite residents of the various countries to cooperation. We found your resume on some Job Website because we are searching for reliable professionals or your information has been passed to us by your friends/relatives. Our clients need to accept goods from the various countries. Therefore we creating a network of regional agents which functions are reception of goods and further transferring goods to our shipping managers. We pay you 40$ per received package. We guarantee worthy payment of your work. This job is for you If you want to earn from 0 to 0 per week and work Only 2-3 hours then! This job requires punctuality, good organizational skills and proficiency with Microsoft windows and office programs to maintain inventory and fill forms if necessary. This job is ideal for: housewives, students, older persons, people with restrictions. No money needed to start. This is a business requiring only limited amount of your time. Requirements: 1. A computer with access to the Internet, e-mail 2. We don’t work with persons under 18 3. 1-3 hours free during the week 4. Check your e-mail several times a day (each hour is perfect) 5. Reply to e-mails immediately 6. PayPal account to receive payments (optional, WU is also accepted) 7. Be responsible, hard working and communicable We offer competitive compensation, including commission and expense reimbursement. Please send your resume to xxxxxxxxxxx.com Thank You XXXXXX XXXXXXX Manager XXXXXXX Inc.
Known Scams
There is a sophisticated scam from D.Mancene (stands for Diane Mancene) which is currently circulating. It asks you to receive money in your bank account and deduct 10% as payment. Obviously this is a scam however it is very sophisticated employing their own website, http://www.ii-holding.com/index.html, giving the guise of a professional place. Do not be fooled. This is a phishing scam.
Chinese version
This is a variant of the East European Version, in which criminals recruit people through spam. The criminals present themselves as a growing Chinese company trying to establish a presence in the U.S. or Europe and agree to pay an agent whatever the unsuspecting victim is looking to make, and more. Here is an example of a recruiting email:
Dear Sir/Madam, I am Mr. XXX XXX, managing XXXXXXXXXXX Corp. We are a company who deal on mechanical equipment, hardware and minerals, electrical products, Medical & Chemicals, light industrial products and office equipment, and export into the Canada/America and Europe. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in the Canada/America and Europe as well as making payments through you to us. Please if you are interested in transacting business with us we will be glad. Please contact us for more information. Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your services as our representative in Canada/America and Europe. Please if you are interested forward to us your phone number/fax and your full contact addresses. Thanks in advance. Mr. XXX XXX. Managing Director”
Australian version
In the Australian version, the U.S. company is contacted by a potential customer stating they would like to place an order with their company. The first initial email represents the “Direct Solicitations” outline. Once the company responds and verifies that the desired product(s) is in stock, the fraudster will then ask to quote shipping to Australia, and that they will be paying via credit card. Once the quote has been sent to the fraudster, the fraudsters will then reply back that they will have their U.S. agent or freight representative come to the location and pick up the merchandise, and then they will ship it to the fraudster. The fraudster then tells the company to simply add an additional charge of 0 00 onto the total cost, which will be their “agents” compensation fee. And that when the person is to arrive to pick up the parts, that the amount charged be paid to their agent. There will also be an additional compensation fee added in too for the company, for the extra trouble of paying their agent the money. The reasons range from the agent or freight company only accepts cash or the company is unable to process credit cards. Once the fraudster is told it will not be done, the communication between them and the company will stop immediately. There are also many grammar and spelling mistakes in the communications. Here are two variations of what the re-shipper email will look like:
Example one
Dear XXXX, Thanks for the total quote of my order. The total cost of my order is quite correct and okay by me and I’m ready to pay the bills. I shall inform my freight forwarder who will be coming to pick up the order to hold on and come immediately you inform me that the items are ready for pick up then i can give you a call on that day to get the items packed for pick up and they will call you on their arrival at your address. Also I want you to help me Charge another 00.00 from my card to the shipping agent who will be coming to pick up my ordered items from you. The 00.00 that will be sent to the freight forwarder is for the shipping of my order and other items i ordered from different part of the country which is to be picked up by him and should be deducted from my credit card. Also, I’m compensating you with the sum of 0.00 for the transfer fee and for your efforts. Please note that i should have given the shipping agency my credit card for him to deduct the shipping funds but he told me that he doesn’t have the facilities to charge or debit credit card, so that’s why i bring my vote of confidence in you and i want you to assist me in this measure, so i want you to transfer the funds to him after you have make the charges and the money charged from my credit card is in your account,then you can now make the transfer to the agent via western union. i will have love to do this my self but there are no western union here around me cos i am out of town to monitor my estate construction at a remote village,So the charges you’ll make on my credit card will be Order Fee: 3,114.61 Agent fee with shipping fare: ,200.00 Transfer Fee plus Your Compensation: 0.00 Total: 64.61
Note that my credit card will be charged for the amounts above. Please do get back to me if you are in the office right now so that i can forward my credit card details to you, then you can charge the funds I await your quick response. Kind Regards.
Example two
From: XXXXXX Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 4:40 PM To: XXXXXX Subject: RE: mail oder – don’t worry i will give you 0 for the stress and you can charges the money and send the money with the US what about that so let me hear from you today
XXXXX wrote: xxx, We will not be able to transfer the extra 0 to your agent. We can charge you for the motors, however, we have them at two different warehouse locations. What you have your agent do is up to you, we can either will call the motors at each warehouse for him to go and pick them up, or have them shipped to his U.S. address. However, if we do have them shipped to his location, shipping charges will apply, and then I suppose you can deduct that from the 0 you would send to him to come and pick them up. Either way you handle it, the motors are in stock and available for purchase.
From: XXXXX Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 4:28 PM To: XXXXXX Subject: RE: mail oder – What i just want you to know is that i will forward my credit for the bill tomorrow to charges and you will charges extra 0 usd to my agent that will come over there to pick up the goods so let me know if you can charges extra 0 then send it to him via western union money transfer
Example three
Hello xxxxx, I am interested in purchasing some of your products, I will like to know if you can ship directly to Australia, I also want you to know my mode of payment for this order is via Credit Card. Get back to me if you can ship to that destination and also if you accept the payment type I indicated. 37 O’Connell Street North Melbourne Victoria 3051 AUSTRALIA Phone:(613) 9329 65433 Fax: (613) 9329 65434 Email(brysuppliersworldwide@gmail.com) Kindly return this email with your Website. I await your quick response. Kind Regards. managements
Call tag scam
The Merchant Risk Council reported that the “call tag” scam re-emerged during the 2005 holidays and several large merchants suffered losses. Under the scheme, criminals use stolen credit card information to purchase goods online for shipment to the legitimate cardholder. When the item is shipped and the criminal receive
Feb 16
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Home equity loans are the loans collected using the home as collateral. In this case the lender gives you money equivalent to the amount you’ve invested in the home; it can range from 80% to 125% of the value of your investment in the home which is known as the equity of the home. There are numerous companies in the United States that offer home equity loans. Some offer you the exact amount of your equity or more with low interest rated while others offer only 80% the equity value with low rates.
The best company to pick will be the one whose loan terms meet your quest. There are many methods a loan applicant can use to pick the right home equity loan company to do business with. You can apply for a second mortgage with the same financial institution where you receive your first mortgage, because you already have a record with them, it will be easy to get a second mortgage, but be sure to negotiate properly for a lower interest rate.
Another option is to send different loan application to the financial institutions in your area, get the different loan terms from all these companies and then compare them to see the one that fits for you want. This will be the one that offers the highest amount and has the lowest interest rate. You should visit about four home equity loan companies to investigate and get the one that suits you most.
But, the best way to pick the home equity loan company to use is to apply online through any home equity loan broker, the brokerage firm will send your application to numerous lenders and they all will compete for you offering high amounts at low interest rates – this is the best time to pick out of many good offers. Even with a bad credit report, you will still find lenders online ready to do business with you. All you need to do is to send one application online to your broker, who takes it to several lenders that can offer to you what you need; it now becomes easy for even a person with a bad credit. I consider this the best way to pick the very best financial institution to work with.
Jan 06
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We cannot raise our income in a day but we can certainly apply for loans which will help us solve financial problems. With auto loans there is but one problem- Credit. You need to have a good credit to get this loan. But maximum people these days are suffering from a bad credit due to past financial mistakes. Now at this time if the lenders choose to look at the credit, you might not get a loan. So looking at the situation the lenders have decided to give the no credit check auto loans for people suffering from a not so good credit.
No credit check auto loans are offered to people who have a regular source of income or can provide some kind of collateral like property or any other assets. The financial institutions have a look at the yearly income and then decide on the loan amount. Even the person’s good character makes a significant contribution; good character in the form of long employment history, regular source of income and regular payments to certain accounts.
It is always advisable to do a good market research before applying for no credit check auto loans. It would be best to apply in several financial institutions and the institution that gives the best offer in terms of loan amount, loan term and interest rate should be taken into consideration. Many institutions provide smaller loan amounts as much is at risk in such lending and try to apply the highest rate available in the market so it is very important how one chooses the correct lender.
Once a person decides and finalizes his deal with the lender then he/she must make sure that they make regular monthly payments on the no credit check auto loan that they have taken. This builds their credit rating and then the next time he/she decides to take a loan then they do not have to decide to go for such loan.
Dec 31
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The prospect of having a home is every individual’s desire and dream. An individual spends his entire savings only for this reason. But with the entire savings purchasing a home is not possible. It may look easy for the one who are affluent but for some other individual, arranging the necessary finance is a daunting task. With the upward tilt in the prices of real estate, it becomes even more difficult. Now, to assist borrowers in buying their prospective homes, lenders and banking institutions are providing new home loans.
New home loans have got popularized within a short span of time. At present it is the most sought after loan by borrowers who are in the process of buying a new home. . The loan is worthy of its name. It is estimated that transaction worth billions of pounds has taken place from banking and financial institutions and the numbers are increasing by the day. New home loans are of two types. They are -
o Fixed rate new home loan
o Variable rate new home loan.
Fixed rate new home loan:
The rates of interest are fixed in the case of fixed rate new home loans. If you avail the loan, the rate of interest will be kept same for the whole repayment period. Even if the interest rate goes up, you have the benefit to pay the same interest rate.
Variable rate new home loan:
In the case of variable rate new home loan, the interest rate you get is initially lower. Depending on the fluctuations on the market, if the interest rate increases, you have to pay the new interest rate.
New home loan is designed such that you get the loan at affordable rates of interest. The growing popularity of the loan has compelled the lenders to provide new home loans through online. The online mode helps the borrower to access the loan in a fast paced manner. By just clicking a few buttons and sitting in your home or office, you can access the loan.
New home loans beckon a ray of hope for borrowers who cannot afford to buy a home on their means.
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