Have You Fallen Victim to a Lending Scam? Share Your Story

Have You Fallen Victim to a Lending Scam? Share Your Story

Lender · Salt Lake City, UT · Member since 2012 · 714 posts · 169 votes

We write on the topic of loan scams often and we always get a lot of responses from victims of these scams. People often ask, “Who do I report this to?” and unfortunately there is no straightforward or clear answer.

There are a ton of lending scams out there, the most common being the upfront fee scam. Under this scenario, a company poses as a legitimate lender and provides loan approvals to potential borrowers. Along with a loan approval is always an upfront fee. Not in all cases is this a loan scam, as most lenders do charge a commitment fee. This is where it gets tricky to find a reliable private money lender or commercial hard money lender.

Have you been the victim of a loan scam and would you like to report the person or the company to stole your time and money? Perhaps even if you’d like to share your story anonymously, we’d still love to hear it. There has to be a medium through which private lending sources could be validated and whereby potential borrowers could avoid falling victim to loan scams.

Please contact me privately or leave a comment below with your story. We are gathering information about the various types of loan scams that are out there, so please share your intel about some of these companies or groups that are perpetuating some type of loan scam. Help others to avoid falling victim to these scams by sharing your story whether publicly or privately. Again, please contact me privately or leave a comment below with your story. Thanks for helping others avoid falling victim to loan scams by sharing your story.

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  • Investor · Pleasanton, CA · Member since 2013 · 59 posts · 13 votes
    12y

    Hi Corey,

    That is a great topic. I have not fallen victim to a lending scam, but I am amazed about how many loans I have run across that have gone bad and the investors lost money in those. One group of lenders were co-mingling funds from two different asset-based properties, which is illegal. I have seen Predatory Lending where the term is shorter that the work to be done with permits and financing factored in, which allows for lofty loan extensions. I am anxious to hear actual stories, as I am certain there are sadly plenty.

  • Dallas, TX · Member since 2013 · 4k+ posts · 744 votes
    12y

    @Corey Dutton,

    I like what you are doing if you post the lender complete information and verified information that lender is or pull a scam not someone making anonymously post that no one can verify.


    Joe Gore

  • Miami Beach, FL · Member since 2016 · 2 posts · 0 votes
    10y


    Tulga Demir
    The Con, The Scam Artist

    I was business partners with Tulga Demir and one of his victims too.

    The inspiration for this site to expose Mr. Demir as the despicable psychopath, scammer, narcissist, and thief that he is. My mission going forward is to prevent others
    from falling for his deceptive web of lies and manipulations which dozens of
    people including myself have fallen victim to over several years.

    He’s a parasite to society and everyone needs to be made aware of this cancer.

    I am providing photos and documents to substantiate everything I’m claiming so you
    may judge for yourself. All information including court documents, images, text
    messages, emails are either public information, was in the public domain, I had
    or have authority over, or personally belongs to me.

    You can view the fraudulent complaint he filed to try having the site taken
    down. Despite his slick talking claims, he has never been a successful
    businessman, never was wealthy, and as of February 2015, he is yet to generate
    a single dollar in profit for anyone who has trusted him with their hard earned
    money. Despite all that, he feels entitled to owning a Rolls Royce, lived in a
    $15k a month Penthouse in Miami with it’s own private pool, go on luxurious
    vacations, live an exorbitant lifestyle and spend tens of thousands on strippers at his favorite hangout, Dean’s Gold in Miami.

    About his Mugshot, $100k cash bond and court tracking device.

    Example of how he would embezzle company funds via his Amex to his girlfriends paypal.

    $490,551 Judgment , $1,864,813.15 Judgment, $113,264 Judgment….

    Extorting his wife not to divorce him to get his green card

    Deceived investor/friends into lending him money

    Exorbitant Lifestyle at investors expense

    Luxury Vehicles

    Paid for all his legal and immigration expenses

    $300,000+ in personal IOU’s owed me

    I was financially comfortable until Tulga came along and wiped me out.

    etc, etc,
    etc. Much more as you continue to read. Just make sure to click on ALL the
    links as you read along.

    It’s important to know his history so you understand the depth of his ongoing
    deceptive nature which is in his cold blood. A mini wannabe Madoff. A financial
    terrorist who has a quick and convincing response to any question you may have.
    A Wizard of lies. By the time you realize it, it’s too late and you’ve lost
    your money. My goal is to put an end to that cycle and prevent him from
    continuing ruining

    History

    I met Tulga when he was trying to open a club in South Beach back in 2007
    (Club Sin). He portrayed himself as this uber wealthy successful businessman
    when in reality he was broke and living off of and spending investors money. He
    was in debt to many people already. He even used his own brother Tugend and
    screwed him over with payments for a Lamborghini in the amount of $113,000

    Lambo_Lease
    Judgment and another gentleman for $22,000 for a mercedes AMG he leased for Tulga under his brothers name again and never paid for it. You may contact him directly and ask how much he was taken for. He even had two Hummers under another persons name because one wasn’t enough. How much of it was his money? Zero.

    Anyone who knows him will recognize these key words he uses when talking about his past “accomplishments”.

    $100 million warehouse line of credit, hedge funds, Investment fund, own his own investment company” etc. Watch the 22 second video below to hear it from his own mouth.

    Completely fabricated lies. Would be Impressive for someone who had no
    schooling or licenses to sell or trade securities and overstayed his Visa while
    laying low and hiding from immigration until he could get married to a US
    citizen for his green card. Speaking of, eventually he found someone and poor
    girl was also scammed and used and now responsible to pay his $70k tax debt while he’s been living with his girlfriend since 2012. Nice guy. He’s still married btw. He left her so destitute that if she does divorce him and he gets deported, she is responsible for his tax debt so they’re still married. He will not pay his taxes until he gets his
    permanent green card. You will see that it’s a major strategy he uses in
    keeping people broke and in debt in order to control them.

    Anyway, back to his claim of being wealthy. If he had all this money in the
    past, why was he being sued so many times? Some for petty amounts on his credit
    cards for less than a few thousand dollars since 2002? All public record. Just
    goes to prove he was broke when he was trying to open the club and was counting
    on investors. They all lost their money and got scammed. Several hundred
    thousand. See it here Miami-Dade County Clerk Record Search Type in Tulga Demir and you will see a list of about 40+ lawsuits .

    This I would assume is the tip of the iceberg since it’s only Miami so who knows what else is out there.

    I also know of two additional lawsuits in Broward County with Reliable Title llc in 2005 and another company. Same mess. Anything he touches goes to hell. That lawsuit was also for several hundred thousand dollars.
    Over four dozen court filings with disputes? So before he goes claiming
    these are petty issues look at each one in detail. Nice track record for
    someone who claimed to be so successful and all about integrity.

    Since it’s not normal to ever run a background check on any of my friends,
    I believed his convincing stories and sincerity like most people have done.

    Getting back to the club days. You will see this behavior repeats itself
    later on as he recklessly spent investors money to the point that the club
    never opened. It was all about his image. I was there and saw it all unfold. He
    claimed the IRS had frozen his accounts due to some tax issues since he had
    made “millions” which led to him being unable to pay anything but I go to find
    out recently that it was a total lie. Simple truth, he failed to raise more money. One of the investors was trying to sue him for $490,551.52 since 2008 for fraud but he’s been able to dodge them all these years until now.

    He’s been able to have the case delayed due to technicalities but it’s finally caught up to him and the trial was set for Jan 2015 and he lost but I’m sure he will appeal.
    He knows how to manipulate the system. Once again, he dragged his own brother
    (who is an amazing honest person but also got caught up in his manipulations)
    into his web of irresponsible behaviors.

    He also convinced his uncle in Germany back in 2004 to invest over $220,000 and how much have they seen back from that investment? Zero. Unfortunately the other victims
    in that situation was his mother and father who were disowned by the rest of
    the family due to Tulga’s scam.

    Unaware of his history which he has mastered at hiding and expunging his
    records, we became close friends and I took him and his brother into my home
    after they were evicted from his condo at the Green Diamond in Miami. They were
    homeless and had no one else to go or anyone to help them (now I know why), I
    took them into my home. After living with me for several months, I eventually
    helped him with his own place expecting his “tax money” issue to get resolved.
    I never expected it would be over 5yrs but once you’re in it you’re in it so I
    kept lending him money and helping as much as I could to the tune of several
    hundred thousand dollars.

    He was family now. I compare it to taking in an injured animal that no one
    wants thinking it was a temporary thing but then you can’t just dump them when
    you get tired of the situation. You take on that responsibility and you see it
    through. You continue to do what you can for as long as it takes because that’s
    what loyal friends do. At least that’s how I was.

    I paid 110% of his living expenses , Rent Utilities, Food, Groceries, Cell Phone, Legal
    Fees, Immigration Fees, and sent money to his family several times (I was only
    able to find one Wester Union receipt (but Tulga Demir | Information, Documents, Photos I have others in storage I believe), and even paid to have them come visit on more than one occasion. I gave him a credit card to use (which he was supposed to make payments on but never did) since he was unable to have any bank accounts in his name due to his legal issues.

    It was just easier for him to use a credit card to keep track of a total rather than me
    constantly giving him cash. When immigration finally caught up to him and he
    was in jail for over a month, the day after knowing the bail amount, I bailed
    him out with $100,000 CASH! Keep in mind that immigration bail is usually about $5k but his was $100k.
    Why so much? Why were they trying to deport him so badly? The man with a million excuses claimed back then it was because
    he’s Turkish and a Muslim but obviously they knew his criminal record and his
    history and they wanted him out. I, not knowing better pulled off miracles and
    saved his life many many times. If I had only known.

    What’s interesting to note is that of the hundreds of thousands he’s in
    debt to me in personal loans , he only made one pathetic payment of $200 via
    a cashiers check because he couldn’t have a bank account due to his green card and probably all those lawsuits too.
    If there were any other payments ever made, I would love to see proof of that or even show where he ever earned any money during all that time. He didn’t.

    All that I did for him, some might find it foolish but I did consider him
    like a brother, a best friend and part of my family. I did what I could to help
    him and his family. At the time I also honestly believed that we shared the
    same goals, the same integrity, values and the same hard working discipline
    that I always had so he would be a great business partner. My best friend and I
    would build this empire. How great would that be?

    I financed several business ventures which nothing became of them for one reason or another. During this time, for over 5yrs, we never generated a penny and lived
    completely off of my savings and my income from various things I had going on
    from prior to meeting him. While we worked together though, It was the first
    time in my life I wasn’t able to generate money from any new venture.
    Eventually we got into Oil and created GEA. Also, 100% financed by me of course
    because he was broke and in debt.

    I was fortunate to have done well for myself and have always lived below my
    means. I was not rich but I was very comfortable and had a good life; no
    stress, no problems. I was fine. I had a modest home which was located across
    the street from the beach in Miami Beach and was almost paid for in full. Car
    and motorcycle paid for in full, had amazing credit, money in the bank, a
    retirement account, a savings account, and zero debt. I responsibly managed my finances. I was financially stable .
    All that is gone now since this cancer made his way into my life and
    everyone elses life he comes in contact with. Lost my home, my car, motorcycle,
    sold everything I could to survive, my savings, my retirement,

    my credit, $44k tax debt from profit our company made that he spent on himself. Other debts for about $100k, and responsible for well over a million dollars in company debt he created and now I am divorced as a result of everything. My financial issues
    prior to this cancer entering my life? NONE.

    Coincidence? So as I spiral downwards, my best friend and business partner
    was embezzling investor funds (I’ll get to that later)
    and was living well, has the audacity in his narcissistic mind to say to me
    that I, yes I, was using him which he uses to justify what he was doing. You
    can close your mouth. I know you’re in awww right now.

    How did I get to lose everything you may ask? I went all in financially on an amazing
    opportunity and we pulled it off. Our oil company, GEA was a huge success, we
    made it, for... about a month until it got to Mr. Wannabe Show Off’s head and
    felt entitled to it all. Rather than reinvest back into the business, he
    started spending on himself. Within two months as I stayed dazed and confuse in
    KY. Yes, that fast.

    He had it all planned out and totally caught me off guard. Here’s what happened

    • Member since 2025 · 1 post · 0 votes
      1y
      Quote from @Brian Powers:


      Tulga Demir
      The Con, The Scam Artist

      I was business partners with Tulga Demir and one of his victims too.

      The inspiration for this site to expose Mr. Demir as the despicable psychopath, scammer, narcissist, and thief that he is. My mission going forward is to prevent others
      from falling for his deceptive web of lies and manipulations which dozens of
      people including myself have fallen victim to over several years.

      He’s a parasite to society and everyone needs to be made aware of this cancer.

      I am providing photos and documents to substantiate everything I’m claiming so you
      may judge for yourself. All information including court documents, images, text
      messages, emails are either public information, was in the public domain, I had
      or have authority over, or personally belongs to me.

      You can view the fraudulent complaint he filed to try having the site taken
      down. Despite his slick talking claims, he has never been a successful
      businessman, never was wealthy, and as of February 2015, he is yet to generate
      a single dollar in profit for anyone who has trusted him with their hard earned
      money. Despite all that, he feels entitled to owning a Rolls Royce, lived in a
      $15k a month Penthouse in Miami with it’s own private pool, go on luxurious
      vacations, live an exorbitant lifestyle and spend tens of thousands on strippers at his favorite hangout, Dean’s Gold in Miami.

      About his Mugshot, $100k cash bond and court tracking device.

      Example of how he would embezzle company funds via his Amex to his girlfriends paypal.

      $490,551 Judgment , $1,864,813.15 Judgment, $113,264 Judgment….

      Extorting his wife not to divorce him to get his green card

      Deceived investor/friends into lending him money

      Exorbitant Lifestyle at investors expense

      Luxury Vehicles

      Paid for all his legal and immigration expenses

      $300,000+ in personal IOU’s owed me

      I was financially comfortable until Tulga came along and wiped me out.

      etc, etc,
      etc. Much more as you continue to read. Just make sure to click on ALL the
      links as you read along.

      It’s important to know his history so you understand the depth of his ongoing
      deceptive nature which is in his cold blood. A mini wannabe Madoff. A financial
      terrorist who has a quick and convincing response to any question you may have.
      A Wizard of lies. By the time you realize it, it’s too late and you’ve lost
      your money. My goal is to put an end to that cycle and prevent him from
      continuing ruining

      History

      I met Tulga when he was trying to open a club in South Beach back in 2007
      (Club Sin). He portrayed himself as this uber wealthy successful businessman
      when in reality he was broke and living off of and spending investors money. He
      was in debt to many people already. He even used his own brother Tugend and
      screwed him over with payments for a Lamborghini in the amount of $113,000

      Lambo_Lease
      Judgment and another gentleman for $22,000 for a mercedes AMG he leased for Tulga under his brothers name again and never paid for it. You may contact him directly and ask how much he was taken for. He even had two Hummers under another persons name because one wasn’t enough. How much of it was his money? Zero.

      Anyone who knows him will recognize these key words he uses when talking about his past “accomplishments”.

      $100 million warehouse line of credit, hedge funds, Investment fund, own his own investment company” etc. Watch the 22 second video below to hear it from his own mouth.

      Completely fabricated lies. Would be Impressive for someone who had no
      schooling or licenses to sell or trade securities and overstayed his Visa while
      laying low and hiding from immigration until he could get married to a US
      citizen for his green card. Speaking of, eventually he found someone and poor
      girl was also scammed and used and now responsible to pay his $70k tax debt while he’s been living with his girlfriend since 2012. Nice guy. He’s still married btw. He left her so destitute that if she does divorce him and he gets deported, she is responsible for his tax debt so they’re still married. He will not pay his taxes until he gets his
      permanent green card. You will see that it’s a major strategy he uses in
      keeping people broke and in debt in order to control them.

      Anyway, back to his claim of being wealthy. If he had all this money in the
      past, why was he being sued so many times? Some for petty amounts on his credit
      cards for less than a few thousand dollars since 2002? All public record. Just
      goes to prove he was broke when he was trying to open the club and was counting
      on investors. They all lost their money and got scammed. Several hundred
      thousand. See it here Miami-Dade County Clerk Record Search Type in Tulga Demir and you will see a list of about 40+ lawsuits .

      This I would assume is the tip of the iceberg since it’s only Miami so who knows what else is out there.

      I also know of two additional lawsuits in Broward County with Reliable Title llc in 2005 and another company. Same mess. Anything he touches goes to hell. That lawsuit was also for several hundred thousand dollars.
      Over four dozen court filings with disputes? So before he goes claiming
      these are petty issues look at each one in detail. Nice track record for
      someone who claimed to be so successful and all about integrity.

      Since it’s not normal to ever run a background check on any of my friends,
      I believed his convincing stories and sincerity like most people have done.

      Getting back to the club days. You will see this behavior repeats itself
      later on as he recklessly spent investors money to the point that the club
      never opened. It was all about his image. I was there and saw it all unfold. He
      claimed the IRS had frozen his accounts due to some tax issues since he had
      made “millions” which led to him being unable to pay anything but I go to find
      out recently that it was a total lie. Simple truth, he failed to raise more money. One of the investors was trying to sue him for $490,551.52 since 2008 for fraud but he’s been able to dodge them all these years until now.

      He’s been able to have the case delayed due to technicalities but it’s finally caught up to him and the trial was set for Jan 2015 and he lost but I’m sure he will appeal.
      He knows how to manipulate the system. Once again, he dragged his own brother
      (who is an amazing honest person but also got caught up in his manipulations)
      into his web of irresponsible behaviors.

      He also convinced his uncle in Germany back in 2004 to invest over $220,000 and how much have they seen back from that investment? Zero. Unfortunately the other victims
      in that situation was his mother and father who were disowned by the rest of
      the family due to Tulga’s scam.

      Unaware of his history which he has mastered at hiding and expunging his
      records, we became close friends and I took him and his brother into my home
      after they were evicted from his condo at the Green Diamond in Miami. They were
      homeless and had no one else to go or anyone to help them (now I know why), I
      took them into my home. After living with me for several months, I eventually
      helped him with his own place expecting his “tax money” issue to get resolved.
      I never expected it would be over 5yrs but once you’re in it you’re in it so I
      kept lending him money and helping as much as I could to the tune of several
      hundred thousand dollars.

      He was family now. I compare it to taking in an injured animal that no one
      wants thinking it was a temporary thing but then you can’t just dump them when
      you get tired of the situation. You take on that responsibility and you see it
      through. You continue to do what you can for as long as it takes because that’s
      what loyal friends do. At least that’s how I was.

      I paid 110% of his living expenses , Rent Utilities, Food, Groceries, Cell Phone, Legal
      Fees, Immigration Fees, and sent money to his family several times (I was only
      able to find one Wester Union receipt (but Tulga Demir | Information, Documents, Photos I have others in storage I believe), and even paid to have them come visit on more than one occasion. I gave him a credit card to use (which he was supposed to make payments on but never did) since he was unable to have any bank accounts in his name due to his legal issues.

      It was just easier for him to use a credit card to keep track of a total rather than me
      constantly giving him cash. When immigration finally caught up to him and he
      was in jail for over a month, the day after knowing the bail amount, I bailed
      him out with $100,000 CASH! Keep in mind that immigration bail is usually about $5k but his was $100k.
      Why so much? Why were they trying to deport him so badly? The man with a million excuses claimed back then it was because
      he’s Turkish and a Muslim but obviously they knew his criminal record and his
      history and they wanted him out. I, not knowing better pulled off miracles and
      saved his life many many times. If I had only known.

      What’s interesting to note is that of the hundreds of thousands he’s in
      debt to me in personal loans , he only made one pathetic payment of $200 via
      a cashiers check because he couldn’t have a bank account due to his green card and probably all those lawsuits too.
      If there were any other payments ever made, I would love to see proof of that or even show where he ever earned any money during all that time. He didn’t.

      All that I did for him, some might find it foolish but I did consider him
      like a brother, a best friend and part of my family. I did what I could to help
      him and his family. At the time I also honestly believed that we shared the
      same goals, the same integrity, values and the same hard working discipline
      that I always had so he would be a great business partner. My best friend and I
      would build this empire. How great would that be?

      I financed several business ventures which nothing became of them for one reason or another. During this time, for over 5yrs, we never generated a penny and lived
      completely off of my savings and my income from various things I had going on
      from prior to meeting him. While we worked together though, It was the first
      time in my life I wasn’t able to generate money from any new venture.
      Eventually we got into Oil and created GEA. Also, 100% financed by me of course
      because he was broke and in debt.

      I was fortunate to have done well for myself and have always lived below my
      means. I was not rich but I was very comfortable and had a good life; no
      stress, no problems. I was fine. I had a modest home which was located across
      the street from the beach in Miami Beach and was almost paid for in full. Car
      and motorcycle paid for in full, had amazing credit, money in the bank, a
      retirement account, a savings account, and zero debt. I responsibly managed my finances. I was financially stable .
      All that is gone now since this cancer made his way into my life and
      everyone elses life he comes in contact with. Lost my home, my car, motorcycle,
      sold everything I could to survive, my savings, my retirement,

      my credit, $44k tax debt from profit our company made that he spent on himself. Other debts for about $100k, and responsible for well over a million dollars in company debt he created and now I am divorced as a result of everything. My financial issues
      prior to this cancer entering my life? NONE.

      Coincidence? So as I spiral downwards, my best friend and business partner
      was embezzling investor funds (I’ll get to that later)
      and was living well, has the audacity in his narcissistic mind to say to me
      that I, yes I, was using him which he uses to justify what he was doing. You
      can close your mouth. I know you’re in awww right now.

      How did I get to lose everything you may ask? I went all in financially on an amazing
      opportunity and we pulled it off. Our oil company, GEA was a huge success, we
      made it, for... about a month until it got to Mr. Wannabe Show Off’s head and
      felt entitled to it all. Rather than reinvest back into the business, he
      started spending on himself. Within two months as I stayed dazed and confuse in
      KY. Yes, that fast.

      He had it all planned out and totally caught me off guard. Here’s what happened

      Brian, are you still active on this site or you could you respond back if you see this?
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