Collegiate Funding Services

Collegiate Funding Services appears to be a loan company marketing primarily to college students.

Review
This company sends out bulk mail, addressed to college students, which is phrased and designed in such a way that it may easily be mistaken for an official notice regarding an existing student loan. It is, however, an offer of "loan consolidation".

I don't know how their service compares to others of the same type, but this marketing tactic is slimy.

Rating: avoid

--Woozle 16:58 EDT, 16 Sep 2005

Contact Information

 * Collegiate Funding Services
 * Student Loan Department
 * 1-866-478-0311 (Mon-Sat 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 pm ET)
 * http://www.cfsstudentloan.com

To stop receiving offers (according to the mailing):
 * 1-888-5-OPT-OUT (this may or may not be a genuine opt-out line)

One mailing (September, 2005) had no mailing address; another mailing received on 2006-06-10 had this addresss:


 * P.O. Box 96139
 * Washington, DC 20066

A whois on cfsstudentloan.com (September, 2005) returned the following:


 * Collegiate Funding Services, LLC. ... mnicholas@cfsloans.com
 * 100 Riverside Parkway
 * Fredericksburg, VA 22406 US
 * 540-374-1600 fax: 540-374-1981

A whois on cfsloans.com gives the following (as does cfsloan.com, with differences as shown):
 * Nicholas, Mark ... mnicholas@cfsloans.com
 * Collegiate Funding Services, LLC.
 * 10304 Spotsylvania Avenue
 * Suite 100
 * Fredericksburg, VA 22408 US
 * 540-374-1600 x 5416 fax: 540-368-5964
 * Updated Date: 31-oct-2005
 * Creation Date: 27-apr-1999


 * cfsloan.com:
 * Updated Date: 31-oct-2005
 * Creation Date: 28-apr-1999

The cfsstudentloan.com web site redirects to a page on http://www.realworldloan.com/; a whois on realworldloan.com gives the same information as above, except:
 * Updated Date: 31-oct-2005
 * Creation Date: 05-may-1999