1, Report:
#841468
Posted Date:
Feb 19 2012
Ameritrain Doug Davis Scam- does not keep their promises, misleading, using loans to pay Strafford , Pennsylvania
Sean Toal, the salesman for Doug Davis and his Ameritrain Computer Skills school uses grandiose promises of excessive income and computer training as a tool to steal from aspiring individuals who are desiring IT education. Once they have your money and blow you through a Boot Camp t...
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Categories: Adult Career & Continuing Education
2, Report:
#765090
Posted Date:
Aug 14 2011
AmeriTrain, Inc., This company provided training to paying students to be able to pass the MCSE exams. Vienna, Virginia
I'm just adding to what the other student depicted in her complaint. I too was encouraged to take the class and the loan offer from Sallie Mae at >17% apr. After I completed the class I started taking exams and after my first exam the company AmeriTrain folded and loc...
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Categories: Computer Training & Education
3, Report:
#220110
Posted Date:
May 20 2010
Sallie Mae, SLM Corporation My Story: Sallie Mae Student Loan Fraud Lynn Haven Florida
John
November 8, 2006
Cleveland, Georgia, 30528
STUDENT LOAN SCAM
I am writing this article because of a bad experience I am right now going through with my student loans. Due to a grade dispute, I recently withdrew from an online college (AIU-Online/American Interc...
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Categories: Loans
4, Report:
#344307
Posted Date:
Jun 26 2008
AmeriTrain Fiasco Has Caused Me Great Finacial Hardship CAUSED ME GREAT HARDSHIP! Charlotte North Carolina
I was a student of AmeriTrain for only three (3) months when they closed the doors and left town in the middle of the night. Leaving me with a financial obligation and no training received for any of the students that attended. At the time of my attending , I signed and had a co-s...
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Categories: Trade Schools
5, Report:
#321237
Posted Date:
Mar 26 2008
Sallie Mae ,SLM Financial, Sallie Mae preditory lending practices at there finest Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
You feel free, free to explore the world with your new found information, to make it a more hopeful place, with a promise of purchasing a house or starting a family. Suddenly and shockingly you arrive into what is a suffocating and drowning environment. You cannot breathe, cannot mo...
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Categories: Loans
6, Report:
#59942
Posted Date:
Mar 19 2008
Salle Mae Aka SLM Financial Aka Sallie Mae Servicing Defamation Suit Fails Reston Nationwide
I would like to take this opportunity to publicly offer my heartfelt congratulations to my good friend, Mark Powell, for his recent unconditional settlement of the abortive defamation suit filed against him. The dismissal of this suit stands as a landmark victory in our fight to ach...
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Categories: Banks
7, Report:
#188188
Posted Date:
Mar 17 2007
Sallie Mae, SLM, SallieMae Financial burden brought on by Sallie Mae's Private Career Training loan. Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania
I felt important you should be aware of a private loan Westwood College is offering students that trape them into financial burden. If only I knew then what I know now, I would have never signed on the dotted line. In January 2004 I wanted to go back to school. I was tired of doing ...
Entity
Categories: Financial Services
8, Report:
#219446
Posted Date:
Nov 07 2006
AmeriTrain RipOff Vienna Virginia
This institute ripped me off, encouraged me to get a loan through Sallie Mae, with an interest rate of 17.88%, did not present any other options for loans. Many of the students that received training from this institute ended up wasting money and not going into the field at all. I'm...
Entity
Categories: Adult Career & Continuing Education
9, Report:
#49826
Posted Date:
Aug 10 2005
SLM Financial - A Sallie Mae Company Please don't go public with my story. All Locations Nationwide
Mar 18, 2003
School closings put many in debt
Some who fought had loans dropped
BY GORDON HICKEY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Mike Cuccherini wanted to change his life, and he did.
It has gotten worse.
Cuccherini is one of the thousands of people across the countr...
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Categories: Loans
10, Report:
#38579
Posted Date:
Nov 23 2004
Ameritrain Ripped Off with the help of Sallie Mae Financial for MCSE 2000 Training ripped off and scammed Columbia Maryland *UPDATE ..second time Doug closed a school
Background: I enrolled in Ameritrain for two courses in April of 2000. MCSE for Windows NT 4.0 and Novell Netware 5.0. The NT 4.0 course went fine. I was told that the Novell Netware class wouldn't start for awhile and I had up to two (2) years to complete the second course.
I c...
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Categories: Con Artists
11, Report:
#113429
Posted Date:
Oct 18 2004
SLM Financial, Sallie Mae Servicing, Ameritrain closed without classes completing, and still have to pay. Rip-off! Cary North Carolina
After my stress-filled divorce accompanied by many financial struggles and raising two kids, I went in search of better job opportunities. As with many others, I too had my resume on posted on monster.com. I was contacted by Ameritrain in Cary, NC. Trish, who called me for an int...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
12, Report:
#63360
Posted Date:
Jul 11 2003
Ameritrain ripoff deceptive company Atlanta Georgia
This company signed contracts with students, knowing they were having problems financially. The schools, nationwide, closed down with no notice. Now several hundreds of students are stuck with thousands of dollars of debt for courses they didn't take.
Mackenzie
Lawrenceville, Ge...
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Categories: Computer Classes
13, Report:
#61600
Posted Date:
Jun 24 2003
SLM Financial Sallie Mae ripoff Marlton New Jersey
Hi all, I am a former employee at SLM who left because I was disgusted by their business tactics. I will say no more because I do not wish to be identified ( these are NOT nice people you are dealing with here). I can tell you for a fact that over 50% of the loans for Ameritrain wer...
Entity
Categories: Con Artists
14, Report:
#36965
Posted Date:
Jun 20 2003
Ameritrain Meeting of Creditors Rip-off Tysons Corner Virginia
Curtis Center - 950 West
The Curtis Center West, 9th Floor
Chapter 11 an 7 341(a) Meeting Room
Seventh and Sansom Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Date: December 4, 2002
Time: 10:00am
I'd like to personally thank you Ed Magedson for this site.
For other victims to get...
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Categories: Adult Career & Continuing Education
15, Report:
#60531
Posted Date:
Jun 13 2003
Ameritrain INC consumer ripoff victimized many Georgia Nationwide
Ameritrain, INC AtlantaGa. David Goldsmith, 1999 Ameritrain Atlanta Office victimized many consumers Was Located In Atlanta Georgia .....
The company promiced me that I woudl be able to complete the courses with the computer experiances I had. Noting that the MCSE class was only...
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Categories: Computer Training & Education
16, Report:
#60359
Posted Date:
Jun 11 2003
AmeriTrain SLM Financial ripoff. I want a refund, but their phones are disconnected, they've packed up shop and disappeared. Wayne Pennsylvania
Two years ago I went through the process of signing up with Ameritrain for computer training. They insisted upon getting ALL of the tuition money up front so I had to take out a student loan with SLM to the tune of about $15,000.
A year ago I started up my own business and due...
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Categories: Computer Classes
17, Report:
#59523
Posted Date:
Jun 04 2003
Ameritrain and SLM Financial have ruined my credit, caused me to lose a car, and prevented me from refinancing my home. rip-off Columbia Maryland
I enrolled in Ameritrain computer school in March 2000. I signed up for A+/Net+ and MCSE. Due to schedule conflicts and unforeseen problems I had to reschedule my A+/Net+ class until late fall 2000. I finished the course around March 2001. At that time I set my MCSE class up for lat...
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Categories: Computer Classes
18, Report:
#58099
Posted Date:
May 23 2003
Ameritrain - SLM Financial Ameritrain - SLM Financial are a bunch of crooks Columbia Maryland
I signed up for Ameritrain courses around August of 2001. I began taking classes in September or so and completed one of the two courses I signed up to take. This was the A+/Net+ course.
My next class was the MCSE with Exchange 2000. This is where my problems began. I am a membe...
Entity
Categories: Adult Career & Continuing Education
19, Report:
#56117
Posted Date:
May 08 2003
AmeriTrain SLM Financial ripoff Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania
AmeriTrain/SLM Financial/Sallie Mae Go on, take the money and run... mistreated and ripped off Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania .....
My husband signed a loan from SLM Financial to attend AmeriTrain. He didnt even attend one class and the school closed its doors leaving us with a huge l...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
20, Report:
#52988
Posted Date:
May 02 2003
AmeriTrain is a Major RIPOFF! Atlanta Georgia
This is so outrageous! AmeriTrain in Atlanta closed before I could finish my courses! I too signed up under that all-to-familiar high pressure sales tactic. They are soooo smooth. I was wanting, like so many other students, to finish or re-phase the MCSE class at a more reasonab...
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Categories: Computer Training & Education
21, Report:
#51507
Posted Date:
Apr 05 2003
SLM Financial And Microcert the deception continues with yet another computer school Marlton New Jersey
SLM Financial strikes in Utah as well.
My husband enrolled at a school called Microcert which got it's funding through SLM Financial. We were charged the same supplemental fee, had to sign the arbitration agreement, etc. From all I have read about what they did to Solid Computer...
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Categories: Computer Training & Education
22, Report:
#49542
Posted Date:
Apr 04 2003
AmeriTrain rip-off mistreated & ripped off Vienna Virginia
I am wondering if you can help me. I am desperately seeking a price list for AmeriTrain, a company that closed last year in the Fall. I was a student there in A+, Net+, MCSE 2000 with Exchange, and CCNA. I didnt complete my training and Sallie Mae, my loan company will offer part...
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Categories: Adult Career & Continuing Education
23, Report:
#41658
Posted Date:
Apr 04 2003
Ameritrain and SLM Financial sneaky dishonest ripoff scams King of Prussia Pennsylvania
Untrustworthy companies .....
I had my resume on monster.com and was contacted by a Joe Eustace of Ameritrain, who called me for an interview per say. When I got there he offered me a position that he knew I wasn't qualified and told me if I could pass this hard test based on ne...
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Categories: Corrupt Companies
24, Report:
#50031
Posted Date:
Mar 21 2003
SLM Financial Sallie Mae deceptive ripoff fraud scum bags Marlton Nationwide
Student Loan Marketing Association Scheme .....
Our good friends at SLM Financial and Sallie Mae are continuing to play games with the student loan accounts for AmeriTrain students and other schools...
After 6+ months of trying to hold AmeriTrain and Solid Computer Decisions (...
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Categories: Credit & Debt Services
25, Report:
#49824
Posted Date:
Mar 19 2003
SLM Financial - A Sallie Mae Company Sordid Tale of Corporate Greed victimized many consumers Nationwide
A SORDID TALE OF CORPORATE GREED LOAN COMPANY CAUGHT FLEECING STUDENTS IN SEVERAL STATES.
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
A Sordid Tale of Corporate Greed
Cashing in on its known status as one of the main sources of federally-guaranteed student loans, Sallie Mae has ...
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Categories: Financial Services