I also was scammed by these people. Only I questioned wiring the money to Canada, so they set it up so I could wire the money from my bank. I don't know if this would help catch these people but it did go into an account in one of the biggest banks in Canada.

My husband and I were promised a loan through Silverwood Financial in the amount of $5000 dollars. I was kind of afraid that it was a scam because I have worked in a bank for 6 years and seen things like this. Our account rep was Evan Ross. Before agreeing to this loan I had got onto the internet and read some complaints about this company and I had even talked to Evan Ross about these complaints. He assured me and my husband that this was not a scam and even had enough courage to tell me to take it to my own attorney. I had called to talk to my attorney but he was unavailable. I debated with my husband if we should do this or not and even one of our good friends said that it sounded normal. So we went ahead and went to money gram it but I was still not completely convinced that it was not a scam, but Evan Ross called and gave us his promise. Some promise. Then the next day we receive a call from his manager David Stanford. He said that we would have to money gram more money to them. Yeah right over our dead bodies. We are like all of the rest of you we got scammed to. I hope that they catch these guys and bring them to justice.

I was looking for a loan, and filled out a loan application. About a week later I was contact by Richard. He said that they could loan me $5, 000, but that I would need to pay collatral of 820.00. My wife did the transfer on 15 July 2009, supplied our bank routing and account number, and was told that we would receive the 5, 000 by direct deposit the next day. We didn't get the money, my wife tried calling all day the 16th and the line was disconnected. David Stafford called that afternoon and spoke with my wife apologizing for the phones being messed up there had been a storm. He also told her that the investor had went to the insurance company with the collatral we had sent and the insurance was requiring another 815.50 (they lowered it to 800.00 even because of the wire transfer fee). We told them that we couldn't come up with another 815.50, and that we would take the refund of the original 815.50. David told my wife that it would be refunded through direct deposit in accordance with the bill pay cycle which meant we would receive it on the 14th of August. We have tried contacting the company since then and once you dial the number it disconnects immediately.

Same situation as the others are making complaints about. I filled out loan papers and they said I was approved pending a deposit and then they would tell me they needed more money. Over all I paid them 5, 500. They were going to loan me $40, 000 and the money was to be deposited in to my checking account today. Guess what no money is there and when I try to contact them there is no answer. I am so desperate this was all the money I had. If you have any advice please let me know.