Is ledingtree.com a fraudulent website?  Can you give me any details about it?

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 18 Mar 2003 18:35 PST

Do you mean "lendingtree.com"?

Fraudulent? I don't know... but it certainly does not seem to be
professional to me. My guess is that they make a commission from a
third party for any loans that result from the form being filled out.
(I repeat that this is just a guess.)

tisme-ga

Running a WHOIS check on the domain name ledingtree.com produces this:

Organization:
      A+ Loans
      A+ Loans A+ Loans
      16103 Quiet Cove Lane
      Mcload, ok 74851
      US
      Phone: 405-386-4806
      Fax..: 405-386-4806
      Email: mortgageloansok@yahoo.com

   Registrar Name....: Register.com
   Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
   Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

   Domain Name: LEDINGTREE.COM

      Created on..............: Fri, Apr 14, 2000
      Expires on..............: Thu, Apr 14, 2005
      Record last updated on..: Wed, Nov 06, 2002

   Administrative Contact:
      A+ Loans
      A+ Loans A+ Loans
      16103 Quiet Cove Lane
      Mcload, ok 74851
      US
      Phone: 405-386-4806
      Fax..: 405-386-4806
      Email: mortgageloansok@yahoo.com

   Technical Contact:
      A+ Loans
      A+ Loans A+ Loans
      16103 Quiet Cove Lane
      Mcload, ok 74851
      US
      Phone: 405-386-4806
      Fax..: 405-386-4806
      Email: mortgageloansok@yahoo.com

   Zone Contact:
      A+ Loans
      A+ Loans A+ Loans
      16103 Quiet Cove Lane
      Mcload, ok 74851
      US
      Phone: 405-386-4806
      Fax..: 405-386-4806
      Email: mortgageloansok@yahoo.com

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.CNCHOST.COM                                   207.155.248.5
   NS2.CNCHOST.COM                                   207.155.252.5

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There is no "McLoad" in Oklahoma. The ZIP code given is for McLoud,
which is not exactly a center of high finance.

the website has been around for a while . the folowing links should
help u make up ur mind
http://www.epinions.com/content_17983901316
http://www.pricingcentral.com/reviews/lendingtree.htm

excuse me for assuming that u meant Lendingtree.com
and since ledingtree is not owned by the same corporation as
lendingtree.com it would be a reasonable assumption that it is a
copycat or imitation site hopeing to catch visitors  who mistype the "
N " in lendingtree.com

BTW the WHOIS for lendingtree.com (the actual Site goes as follows)
Registrant:
LENDINGTREE, INC. (LENDINGTREE-DOM)
   11115 Rushmore Dr
   CHARLOTTE, NC 28277
   US

   Domain Name: LENDINGTREE.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
      LENDINGTREE, INC.  (C8808-OR) dnsadmins@lendingtree.com
      LENDINGTREE, INC.
      11115 Rushmore Dr
      CHARLOTTE, NC 28277
      US
      704 541 5351 fax: 123 123 1234

   Record expires on 15-Jan-2007.
   Record created on 16-Jan-1998.
   Database last updated on 18-Mar-2003 22:26:44 EST.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS01.LENDINGTREE.COM         12.152.18.251
   NS02.LENDINGTREE.COM         168.215.135.219
   NS03.LENDINGTREE.COM         12.152.10.150

The site http://www.ledingtree.com is obviously trying to take
advantage of the occasional typographical error that leads someone who
is looking for "lendingtree.com" to their site by mistake.

And here's another one:

http://www.lednintree.com/

Hmm. Look familiar? Do we see a pattern here?

I wouldn't trust these guys with my personal financial data.

Here's one clue:

The e-mail address for the administrative contact looks suspicious
(mortgageloansok@yahoo.com).

I would not trust them.

Also consider the advice on this site
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/idtheft.html
answerfinder-ga

This same company seems to have bought up some of the other
misspellings of lendingtree, but the real company must have caught on,
because some misspellings redirect you to the Lendingtree.com website.
 There is another misspelling that redirects you to a site called
www.mortgagecreditproblems.com.  There is also one that takes you to a
site which is "Under construction"
Finally if you type in www.leaningtree.com you go to a site which
sells greeting cards and gifts. (I know, that one has nothing to do
with loans)
Kind of makes you wonder how many other "misspelled" sites there are
out there and how successful they are at either stealing customers
from the original business or obtaining info fraudulently.  I
certainly wouldn't put my personal info, including SSN into a form on
a website that doesn't even identify who they are.

If you check around, there are many companies with less than honorable
intentions who have common misspellings of popular sites. Also reminds
me of a story I saw about a hotel reservation company who had the
phone number 1-800-H zero L I D A Y because so many people were
dialing a zero instead of an O to get the HOLIDAY INN line.