Loan Scam – firstfinancialunion@aol.com

The below loan scam email was sent to an email address that exists only to catch scam emails. It has never been used to register on any site, only to communicate with scammers.

Email headers

Subject: Loan
To: Recipients <test11@mibs.com.mm>
From: test11@mibs.com.mm

Email body

I wish to introduce our firm Transit Funding Group LLC, a privately-owned consumer finance company founded in the year 2000, operating in United States. We offer all types of loans such as personal and auto loans, debt consolidation, business start-up, business expansion, and project funding in all categories, etc. Contact us via E-mail should you be interested: firstfinancialunion@aol.com Call/Whatsapp: +16627920622

Yours faithfully
Mr. Gomez Jones
MD/CEO

Why is this a loan scam?

• It was sent from a totally different email address to the one that you are asked to reply to.
• The email address used is a free AOL address.
• The email was mass-mailed to many recipients using BCC.
• The email gives no indication of exactly where the company are based (regulation in the USA is State based) or who they are regulated by.