In addition, pressure by rights groups this year prompted a German investment bank to withdraw a loan, he said.
Last March, the World Bank withdrew a loan facility of $100m when a water-management contract was dubiously awarded; Britain may withdraw money for a similar project.
The International Finance Corporation, the private-finance arm of the World Bank, withdrew a loan it had promised to Bertin, a big beef producer, to expand its facilities in the Amazon.Mr Demachki persuaded local trade associations to commit to stopping deforestation.
The bank then faces nasty publicity if it presses the country too hard, but it is also reluctant to withdraw a loan from a country in decided need of money.
The bogus missive on ANZ letterhead claimed the bank had withdrawn a $1.2bn loan from Whitehaven because of concerns about environmental damage and dislocation of farmers.
The announcement this month that the big Düsseldorf bank Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, or WestLB, would continue financing the project, despite an international campaign pressuring it to withdraw a $900 million loan, appeared to remove the last hurdle for the builders of the $1.3 billion pipeline.
But every month, she withdraws $140 to pay down a loan that has ruined her credit.
Matthew Fuller, a corporate loan analyst at LCD, a division of S & P Capital IQ, said that it was rare to see a loan deal withdrawn weeks after it had begun trading.
If a loan expires or is withdrawn or canceled, any committed funds are immediately returned by Prosper to the lenders' accounts.
Bob Jr started the music magazine Spin in the mid-1980s with a loan from his father, who later withdrew his investment.
