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A desk phone resting silently in its cradle beside a cassette answering machine with reels slowly turning.

Your Rights & the Law

Stop the Calls, Part 5: let the screener take call nine

That's the Part 1 script, spoken for you, on every call.

Oct 7 · Stop the Calls

A steel snap trap on a wooden dock is baited with a wax-sealed envelope under harsh warehouse lights.

Industry Scams

Your $18,412 tariff refund is ready. Just scan the QR code.

Maya's money is real. It just only comes from one door.

Oct 7 · Scam Report

A heavy steel cleaver splits a thick stack of cash on a dark wooden desk, leaving a sliced portion pushed aside.

SBA & Government-Backed

The bank cut $90K from your SBA loan. It was the MCA payoff.

An active MCA cannot be refinanced with a 7(a) loan.

Oct 6 · SBA 7(a) Playbook

A small wooden boat drifts stalled on a flat gray ocean with a broken outboard motor and a snapped pull-cord.

From the Notebook

He Declined the Engine. Then It Died Under Him.

"You're also fourteen miles out on a boat going five knots."

Oct 6 · Confessions

A black graduation cap rests upside down on a desk, filled with banded stacks of cash beside an unpacked backpack.

Grants

$250K to drop out, and a $5K grant with a step you must do first

$250,000, No equity, one condition: you leave college.

Oct 6 · Grant Finder

A push mower rests on a trimmed lawn before two tall, uncut patches of grass in late afternoon light.

Small Business

The AI proposal billed 28 mows. The season had 30.

A proposal that sounds like you can still price like a stranger.

Oct 6 · AI Prompts, Reviewed

An open manila file folder surrounded by three tangled telephone handsets off the hook on a wooden desk.

Your Rights & the Law

Stop the Calls, Part 4: how did they know you got funded last week?

It's a new filing with your name on it.

Oct 6 · Stop the Calls

A stack of paper payment envelopes rests beside an office desk phone with a cleanly severed cord.

Industry Scams

They paid $4,200 every two weeks to settle their debt. Nobody called the lender.

A real settlement comes with a letter from your lender.

Oct 6 · Scam Report

A brass balance scale tilts sharply toward a small paper stack weighted with iron, lifting a taller stack into the air.

SBA & Government-Backed

QuickBooks says $203K. The IRS says $136K. Guess which number underwriting uses.

Size the loan off the transcript number, not your dashboard.

Oct 6 · SBA 7(a) Playbook

An old answering machine overflows with a tangled nest of cassette tape spilling across a dark desk.

From the Notebook

1,100 Broker Voicemails. Track Nine Was Mine.

"Track nine. Why do you think I called you back?"

Oct 5 · Confessions

A brass raffle drum sits on a marble vanity counter beside cosmetics, perfume bottles, and a folded paper ticket.

Grants

One beauty founder gets $100K, and a $5K grant is a random draw

Entreprenista draws one $5,000 winner at random from a short online form.

Oct 5 · Grant Finder

A magnifying loupe inspects a tiny copper coin beside a towering stack of folders bound in heavy iron chains.

Small Business

The AI wrote 15 sales questions. None asked about the $76,800 lease.

A $250 price gap is small next to a $76,800 lease.

Oct 5 · AI Prompts, Reviewed

An office phone off the hook beside an open gridded notebook with five tangled cords on a wooden desk.

Your Rights & the Law

Stop the Calls, Part 3: the 6-column call log that survives a new caller ID every hour

Five different numbers don't hide one pitch.

Oct 5 · Stop the Calls

A manila envelope marked with a wet red stamp is caught inside a wooden snap trap on an office desk.

Industry Scams

The $92.25 "compliance" letter for a $10 certificate

Your state doesn't need a red stamp and a QR code to bill you.

Oct 5 · Scam Report

A thick stack of banded banknotes spans a wide gap between two heavy stone blocks on a wooden table.

SBA & Government-Backed

$430K of business assets, $205K of collateral. Guess what covers the $275K gap?

A thin collateral file does not kill a deal with strong cash flow.

Oct 4 · SBA 7(a) Playbook

A glowing vape pen and an open padlock sit atop crumpled papers on an abandoned office desk in a dim storefront.

From the Notebook

Someone Faked Her Statements. He Was in Her Chair.

The money's not coming. The vape shop is coming.

Oct 4 · Confessions

A grid of photographic slides and a mini video camera sit beside a thick stack of cash on a glowing light table.

Grants

$10K for 15 slides and a video, plus 3 more grants still open

15 Slides, a five-minute video, and no business plan.

Oct 4 · Grant Finder

A heavy iron ball sits atop a folded paper bill on a weathered wooden desk next to a spilled cup of coffee.

Small Business

I asked what I dropped. A $1,240 invoice was already late.

Never call a funder solicitation a dropped ball.

Oct 4 · AI Prompts, Reviewed

A toy robot hand signs letters on a desk, burying a crumpled paper trapped in an armed mousetrap beneath the stack.

Small Business

AI drafted replies to 3 funders. It buried a $2,847 bill.

Never draft a reply to a funder solicitation.

Oct 4 · AI Prompts, Reviewed

A sealed envelope with a red wax stamp rests heavily across an office telephone handset, keeping it quiet.

Your Rights & the Law

Stop the Calls, Part 2: send the stop request in writing, not on the phone

You have no proof they heard you.

Oct 4 · Stop the Calls

Getting the calls? Shut it down.

MCAFax was built to do the thing you can't do from inside the room: make the phone stop. Check any broker against our member-built database, send cease & desist letters from your own Gmail, and build the paper trail. It's free.

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