Hardmoney and Private Lenders: How to trust them?

[Alsee Mccray]

A couple of weeks ago I saw an email in my box from a company offering to loan me hard money/private money . After speaking with them and giving them a brief description of my goals, they wanted me to send bank statements income tax statements  copy  social security card drivers license, the whole 9 is this normal? I thought the determining factor was how good the deal was your working on.