Claridge Group.Org
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We had applied for a government grant to start a new business and were contacted by a (alias)Mr. Albert Cohen of Miami, FL. He said he would guide us through all the steps needed to be completed to attain our grant which was to be for around $72,000 or less. His ph.no.was (954)678-1484 ext 264. He explained that we would have a lot of paperwork to prepare including a business plan, a P & L statement, a personally written biography about myself and what my plans were for this company. He spent over an hour on the phone with us 2 times helping us to sort out and prepare our information for the grant writer to use to document our specific need for the grant. She had a chinese name that I do not recall, but he said she would need a cashier's check up front for $465 to start the procedure of writing a grant request. I should have smelled a rat right then and there, but he was very convincing in his request for the money in that he had helpedus list and prepare our business plan and other documents. The second time he returned my call to amessage he had left, my wife had him on speaker phone and he seemed very nervous about us also recording what he was saying. Again, i should have sensed something was awry. Like an idiot I sent the money and wouldn't you know it,he called one more time to check on the money because he had not received it yet and was very concerned because I used the U.S. Postal service to send it.He had specified we send it by FedEx. I didn't know the postal service could file a federal complaint and trace it through their delivery records. A few days later I called to leave him a message on what we were to do next and the call was never returned. The phoneno.still workedbut nobody would answer. Go figure. I never heard from him again. I researched this domain online in the scam reports and found a couple others who had lost considerably more money than I had, so I felt somewhat lucky. But how much other information they have on me and countless others remains to be seen. They sell this info to organized crime who hold it in their data banks until they can sell it at a profit. I never submitted any of the reports he requested and none of the info he had on me had any SPI on ot(sensitive personal info) Has anyone else had a problem with this creep since I did? The website is gone and now up for sale. The actual website that was legit ended in .com not .org.