Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Update

I finally had dinner with Kelly and her Husband. I honestly can't rememeber his name right now. Kelly if you read this, I'm sorry. It was an honest mistake. It was enjoyable. We probably drank a little too much, but it was fun.
Change of subject. Sorry. Call me a little paranoid, but a guy named Patrick (even if that's his real name) commented on one of my posts about my house closing asking for information about the company I dealt with that bought it. He sends this super long e-mail and then a link to his website bashing this other company and claiming the company I worked with is one and the same. I feel like it's a scam. Who does that? Who writes you out of the blue about a past transaction? I think if I fell for it he would then ask for my bank account information to see how the transaction worked and before I knew he would wipe my bank account out. He's probably one of those Nigerian scam artists.
I know most of you don't comment on my posts, so I think I might see if I can not allow people to comment. Who knows what people will do these days.

Darby

1 comment:

Patrick in Philly said...

It's good to be paranoid. I'll admit I would be too. I even stated that it was weird to be contacted out of the blue in the opening line of my email. If you read the articles I post on my blog I talk about everyone doing their due diligence. Learn who you are dealing with before ever giving out any information. My only question about your business dealing was a simple "was it a lease purchase or a straight out purchase". I even explained that I was asking this because the person that I have been tracking (that has been ripping people off) does lease purchase contracts with people. That was all the detail I wanted to know about your transaction.

I did also ask for the phone number of the woman you did business with. I’m sure asking for a companies name and telephone number isn’t too much to ask. After all, they are in business and business contact information shouldn’t be secret (at least not a business that wants to make money). I would imagine that since I have information of someone going around using her company name and her business name she would want all the information that I have on this woman. After all, it will negatively affect her business as this woman continues her shady dealings. I also asked that if for some reason she didn’t want me to have her information you could point her to my blog and have her contact me. Give her my email address; I just want to let her know what is happening with her good name.

I will say that the only reason I did contact you was because you are the only person I have found that has done business with Ann Tate and RidgeCrest Ventures that has had a positive experience. It’s almost as if the scammer is getting more bad business deals done than the legitimate company. I’ve had contact from multiple people who have had contact with the “Ann Tate” and some of her many previous names.

As for me being from Nigeria, no, I am from Philadelphia. I am a real estate investor, landlord, IT Project Manager and, somehow, have become the point man for tracking down all information about Helen Joanne Pearce and her many shady companies since I decided to publish a small article about her a while ago.

you can check my blog out at http://www.weblogfor.us