Fake Articles About Commercial Mortgages and Working Capital Financing

It will ways be taken as a compliment if another business financing provider uses one of our articles or press releases on their website and provides appropriate credit that reflects that it was originally published by me (or AEX) and indicates some method of contacting us (for example, by at least mentioning AEX Commercial Financing Group because we are VERY EASY to find on the internet via all of the leading search engines). However, what we are describing in the article below (and additional reports we have written on the subject) reflects the illegal and/or unethical use of someone else's content and making it look like it was written or published by someone who did nothing more complicated than "copy and paste". As I mentioned, this is now occurring more than any casual reader (or of more concern, business owner and commercial borrower) is likely to realize. Over the past several years I have seen a growing number of AEX Commercial Financing Group reports, comments and press releases which were stolen and improperly misrepresented as the work of another. In one specific example that provides a graphic illustration of what we are talking about, a group — which variously refers to themselves as USFG, US Financial Group, US Commercial Financial Group and US Commercial Financing Group (supposedly located at 244 Fifth Avenue East in New York City) and whose CEO is identified as Thomas Tsilionis and Tom Tsilionis — published one or more press releases (one of these was dated May 18, 2009) which used an AEX Commercial Financing Group press release published several weeks earlier and simply substituted new names and contact information for the original AEX information. This company did not even bother to change the portion of the press release which said the company was "based in Ohio" (which AEX is but these guys are saying in their contact data that they are in New York). Because they simply used an AEX Commercial Financing Group press release, the "copy and paste" press release contained a whole series of misleading statements such as "publishes a comprehensive free resource, The Working Capital Journal" — in fact this publication has been published by AEX Commercial Financing Group since September of 2008. (Anyone can search on the leading internet search engines such as Google and find it by looking for "working capital journal". We also repeatedly mention this particular resource throughout our own website.)

Our bottom line in highlighting this growing problem is that obtaining small business loans and working capital in the current environment is difficult enough for small business owners without also having to deal with a commercial loan provider whose credentials are "copied and pasted" from another company