Sourhtern United Financial, 301 West Bay Street, Jacksonville, FL 3
Complaint 4762 Details

Eileen and Mother were scammed by:
Southern United Financial (SUF) contacted me, they got my information on-line when I was searching for a lending institution.
SUF gave me the same spiel as other people got that were also scammed.
SUF told me that I would qualify for a $5,000.00 loan if I pre-paid 6months worth of loan payments, i.e., $900.00 prior to receiving the loan amount. I paid it via Western Union plus $71.00 wiring fee that SUF told me thay would reimburse me.
After this, the funds were not deposited in my account because SUF then claimed that the lender i.e., Anita Vargas, Valencia Spain, had reviewed my loan again, for the second time, and wanted another $900.00 + $71.00, in order to process the loan because I was a credit risk. Dumb, but I wired the money and then SUF informed me the lender backed out; breached contract.
SUF told me they had another lender that had already agreeded to fund a $10,000.00 loan, with the stipulation that I deposit another $1,800.00 + $152.00 wiring fees in order to receive the loan without any problems. I had to wire the money, this time to two different people in North York, Ontario, Canada...supposedly this was the second lender. Note: The first set of funds that I wired to Anita Vargas, first lender, SUF claimed that they didn't have the funds in their position, but that they were working on getting them back so SUF could reimburse me. This meant that I had to come up with a second set of funds, i.e., for second lender in Canada.
After wiring the second set of funds to Canada, SUF told me my file was still pending deposit of the $10,000.00 into my checking account. I was "Irate", to say the least. SUF said that the Insurance Company that the second lender used, was requesting $1,300.00 + $93.00 to seal the loan; no questions asked after this. I wired the money this time, to Andry Gade, Madrid, Spain, supposedly the Insurance Company. I really needed the money and that was the only reason I pursued this.....I went back on my better judgement. Obviously, this still didn't do it. I wanted answers from SUF, even though I new it was a "worthless cause." But I was no longer able to contact SUF via phone because there telephone system wasn't accepting the extensions, i.e., 539,715 etc. that I had previously used and were valid at the time. Several days have passed and I am still unable to reach SUF. Contacts at SUF were: Peter Morgan, Jonathon Fisher, Michael Holt, etc. Total loss including wiring fees was $5287.00