Review of Direct Funding Now – Dishonesty, Lies, and Fake Businesses
Business Lending Company Using 23 Different Company Names

Constant Robo-Calls

Over the past months I’ve been pretty much been receiving multiple calls every day from two U.S. business lending companies. The curious thing is that both of these companies started calling me at the same time, call me at the same times every day, always call using different phone numbers with different area codes, and never provide their business name or address.

I don’t answer these calls anymore because they’re just a robo-calling machine. The message they leave will usually start with an upbeat female voice saying, “Hi this is Jessica from the SBA department” or “Hi this is Stephanie with the underwriting team at the business funding department,” but of course they never provide an actual business name. In each case, the cheery female voice tells me that I’ve been pre-approved for a business loan or line of credit for $155,000, $1.2 million, or some other number. The phone numbers these robo-calls encouraged me to call back most recently are 949-264-9687 and 608-639-7269.

Pre-Qualified and Pre-Approved Business Loan Message Isn’t True

I’ve called back to play along and see what these guys have to say. In each case, the person I’ve spoken with refuses to tell me their business name, their business address (one “manager” told me they are located in Southern California), or their full personal name. In fact, they refuse to tell me anything until I’ve provided them with my information. When I let them know that I’m not located in their country, the United States, they then tell me that I don’t qualify for the loan – even though their pre-recorded, robo-call message told me that I was pre-qualified.

I then asked each “company” to please remove my phone number from their call list. Each time they tell me they will, but they never ask what my number is before hanging up. They never even attempt to confirm it. The calls then continue – every business day. They’ve literally left me dozens of robo-call messages telling me that I’m pre-qualified when this is anything but true.

Now These Business Lending Companies Are E-mailing Me Identical Messages From Different Companies

I’m now receiving email messages from two different business lending companies. They started on the same day and are formatted exactly the same way – just like the phone calls. So I assume it’s the same guys. The crazy thing is that I looked these companies up online and it turns out they operate under 23 different names on 25 different websites. My question is why would a legitimate company ever do this? The only companies I’ve seen do this in the past are scams or near-scams.

Here are the companies I found. If you click on any of their websites below you’ll see they’re all exactly the same – except for the parent website. The only thing that changes are the company logo and the post office box address that they use as their fake company address.

More Dishonesty & Fake Reviews from Direct Funding Now

As you can see on the screenshots of these “business funding” websites, each one claims to have an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, to be on an Inc 5000 list, and to have only 5 star Google reviews. However, I have only found one company on this list that comes anywhere close to this, Direct Funding Now. No other company here has a Better Business Bureau rating, is listed on an Inc 5000 list, or has Google reviews. Direct Funding Now, though, doesn’t have all 5 star reviews. So that’s misleading too. Claiming that 22 businesses have 5 star Google reviews when they actually have none and don’t even exist is more than a little misleading, that’s downright dishonest. Direct Funding Now has created an entire fake world of websites.

Do You Have Any Experiences With These Business Lending Companies? Are They a Scam?

Feel free to share your experiences with these companies below or anything you’ve learned about them. I don’t know for sure that the robo-calls are connected to these websites, but it looks quite likely. Are these companies a scam?