r/ProRevenge - My "FRIEND" Scams Me and Sold Me Fraudulent Software! [He Loses EVERYTHING!]

hello my wonderful wonderful friends welcome back to another episode of our slash pro revenge where you get to hear stories about people getting what they deserve guys i hope you're having a great day today wherever you may be and in this episode i've got one long story it's a long story that many people in the comments of the post say that it would even qualify as nuclear revenge so with that said i hope you stay for the story today and do hit that subscribe button for future revenge stories let's dive in this was about 9 years ago i a 48 year old female have an extremely beautiful 35 year old niece named emma on my husband's side she's a head turner she's very approachable humble and very smart she's also very shy and has trouble asserting herself and enforcing boundaries so i used to know a guy named dean who's now 51 years old for my first marketing job we worked in the same building most youngsters knew each other and usually had lunch together at the lobby cafe he was a very cool guy super funny and likable he was clear in his goal of becoming a business owner eventually our small group kind of disbanded and i moved on and slowly lost touch with my clique fast forward and i'm married and actively looking to expand our business i bumped into dean at a dentist appointment we exchanged updates while in the waiting room he now owned a small business services company i looked into his website and decided to give his services a try he became our regular supplier and our working relationship brought him lots of referrals basically we indirectly helped him build his business i had my niece emma apply for a job at his company as he was actively looking for new workers she was hired as a little bit of everything employee the pay wasn't great but she was only one course short of graduating and wanted to build her resume for about a year our work routine involved paying him good steady money for extremely professionally done services such as payroll accounting etc one day dean introduced us to charlie he had been complaining that his business was getting slower and slower and charlie was some sort of a consultant i used the term some sort because his actual scope wasn't clear charlie seemed like an okay guy very formal and polite with just the right balance between seriousness and smiles we were invited to a business meeting so that dean could discuss some stuff and hear our input this wasn't rare dean and i had been avid brainstormer partners and our sessions helped each other back when we first met we had periodical discussions after we reconnected i wouldn't discuss my business with him for ethical reasons but i didn't mind hearing him out and perhaps offering my opinion that meeting charlie and dean presented a business opportunity but my husband and i passed at the end of dinner everyone pitched in but the tab was 90 short charlie apologized for not having money on him and directly asked my husband to cover him we covered his portion because we felt that we were put on the spot i made up my mind that if the guy didn't pay us back i would have dean reimburse the expense my husband and i left the restaurant and we discussed the dinner surprise we decided to drop it to avoid getting paranoid we really didn't know the guy and dean didn't seem bothered at all charlie paid us immediately like at 10 o'clock the next morning and he was contrite and apologetic charlie then became a fixture at dean's office and dean had a change in behavior he seemed hungry and thirsty for fast money schemes and quick success they spent the day on meetings about mostly every mlm in the book with dean constantly out of his office the quality of services dropped significantly dean's office had become some sort of a meeting place for the corner cutters the alpha male wannabes and the people who think i'm gonna succeed fast and rub it on the face of each person who has called me incompetent our frequent dinner meetings thinned out charlie's true character began to surface he made sexist jokes ethnic jokes talked down at people and started to raise his voice once he took a sip of my niece's coke and she was disgusted so she gave it to him and got a new one unfortunately my niece became dean's formal assistant so she had to attend every meeting sometimes until very late hours and i began to wonder if she was getting paid for the extra hours but i thought i could be wrong and did not want to interfere we declined every invitation if we knew charlie would be there we had signed up for only three years of services and cancelled on other services where customer quality had declined it worked out then we paid dean 10 000 for installing our new platform with control over our own use of technology three weeks went by and we still couldn't use the platform it didn't support multiple users as needed and we required someone from dean's company to visit on a daily basis because we couldn't get it running annoyed at the situation we simply asked for the money back dean agreed and paid us two thousand dollars and promised the other eight thousand dollars in installments i asked for a personal meeting because i needed the whole thing resolved we had paid our money had no service and we still had to wait to get a full refund really by then charlie had taken full control and was running the show crucial employees were randomly getting fired and charlie yelled at everyone and made decisions with dean never saying a word my niece looked unhappy dean had her carry his suitcase and had her constantly serve charlie some coffee i also did not appreciate the crude jokes he directed at her either dean did nothing about it as time went on too many things weren't adding up charlie painted himself quite the double-07 type he was a former college professor a former business owner and a former marketing director he spent months away from home and dramatically described one fateful new year's eve that he spent alone on a plane as the final straw that caused the end of his marriage as he was such a workaholic he was a fast talker and a great storyteller he claimed long motorcycle rides in exotic places such as italy and yet he had no car and was living at a friend's house and showed limited proficiency when i pressed for my money charlie went ballistic he tried to put me in a corner and tried to intimidate me he asked are you a software expert are you because if you were you wouldn't need our services answer my question or shut up and stop talking because you don't know what you're doing i started to answer that i wasn't an expert and he quickly replied then shut your mouth i got up and told him that i'm no expert but i'm the paying client i warned him to watch his mouth and that he would not get a second warning and sadly my relationship with dean was strained and he did not stand up for me neither as a friend or as a client i told dean i would never again deal with charlie i cancelled all accounting and payroll services immediately i had zero trust right away i researched charlie's background none of his corporate experience checked out but he had an extensive criminal record his record included gender violence bank and wire fraud securities fraud patrimonial crimes and a pending arrest warrant that dated eight years prior i sent all this information to dean and he never replied i urged my niece to leave her job but she decided to wait to end her semester and then get another job which was a bad decision she said that dean owed her for a lot of overtime and leaving her job would almost guarantee that she would never see that money out of the blue dean contacted me with a solution he gave me an unconvincing apology and asked me to meet him and an excellent software company owner who could help i insisted on getting my refund but he promised that he would cover the expense i addressed charlie's criminal past and he said he did not know but had confronted charlie and cut ties for good and it turns out he lied so with dean i met this lady her name was francis and she was hostile standoffish and showed a superiority complex apparently she owned a yacht multiple real estates and had a presence across many states i left when the meeting was over without an actual resolution that i had hoped for she hardly mentioned anything about software francis talked a big game on other topics so i researched her and found lots of questionable information i asked dean directly if she was in any way connected to charlie he offered a vague answer of i don't know it could be when i pressed him for a yes or no he said i can't compromise the integrity of my success by indulging in your unfounded assumptions as it was dean's business was drying up he saw francis as his savior she engaged him to help her set up one of her big companies and would pay him 750 thousand dollars total she would also pay him two thousand dollars a week for six months just to do some company creation work on the side i had a software engineer install a new system our initial intention was to get dean's software up and running to avoid the additional cost of a new installation the engineer informed me that the software could not possibly run because it was a knockoff from an outdated system he advised me to file a complaint for fraud some more research led me to the conclusion that dean had inflated his company's capacity for specialty software and thus he also inflated the price from what we paid him he took two thousand dollars for himself and gave charlie eight thousand dollars to get whatever garbage they could sell me this is exactly why i could not get my eight thousand dollars back and francis was their source of software i notified dean that due to the nature of his relationship with a felon we were cancelling all remaining services my niece got fired that afternoon and dean's excuse was her refusal to give charlie a ride emma ended up coming to me and my husband she was scared and very emotional she explained that when i gave dean my cancelling notice she was in his car and was about to get out and enter the office dean slammed the door so hard the car shook she was so perplexed and it took her a few seconds to get out so dean opened the door and yelled get out the situation with charlie had also escalated emma addressed this at work but dean's response was grow up toughen up and how do you expect to make it in this cutthroat world if you're going to be so sensitive charlie's jokes also became overtly sexual and explicit in one incident a few months earlier charlie was drunk after yet another failed business meeting dean had ordered emma to drive charlie home and he tried to assault her during the ride he claimed he couldn't remember and therefore it never happened this time she refused to be charlie's driver and a potential victim dean fired her after ranting about how charlie was being targeted by losers and faithless know-it-alls he got into a power trip and became verbally abusive calling her a miss goody two shoes and reminding her that she had been able to eat the whole time she worked for him because he paid her out of pity he emailed her that due to her insubordination lack of honesty and malicious manipulation her duties were terminated effective immediately after hearing all of this my husband and i stepped up to support her we paid a good lawyer this was no longer just about money i went straight to the restaurant where dean and charlie routinely held their meetings and i confronted dean in front of his clients and warned charlie that his luck had ended i became very attentive to detail i researched all types of records and found that charlie had jumped his probation and the arrest warrant was still in effect the legal system had failed miserably at finding him he had felonies in multiple states and the supposed time doing business overseas was actually jail time emma proved her case on sexual harassment and dean had to pay fifteen thousand dollars in owed salary and punitive damages and he had to pay some fines with that i contacted as many of his former employees as possible who were fired and encouraged them to sue dean three of them actually did and one of them won i wanted him under legal and financial strain he was ordered to refund my money plus legal cost and the judge did not accept his whole but it's charlie's fault excuse my contract was direct with dean not charlie he also had to pay me for breach of confidentiality because charlie wasn't his employee nor was he a legally bound business partner the court had opened a new investigation over potential financial fraud and theft of information identity etc as dean had access to clients accounting and payroll information with lots of data a new order of apprehension was issued against charlie but he ran the judge ordered dean's business permanently closed and a forfeiture notice was issued a while later i saw on facebook that dean had been invited as a guest lecturer at a nearby college that's funny because dean had never actually finished college and i knew this from the beginning i contacted the college and voiced my concern over an unqualified professor teaching at their institution they ended up announcing a different professor for the course without any explanation during that fall a former co-worker called my niece to give her the news that francis had been arrested by the feds for a fraud scheme and the best part is she stopped paying the 2 000 a week early but kept stringing dean along for free work i sent a formal notice to all the companies that i had referred him to and explained that i could no longer recommend his services i added a copy of her own lawsuit for reference and companies were dropping from his business like flies other lawsuits started popping up for dishonest services this set a chain of events that led to his downfall dean had some car repo situations back when the business began to fail i called the company and told them where to find him and at what time this was easy because although he had closed shop he and charlie kept eating at the same restaurant i wasn't there to see it but i could confirm his car was towed dean's marriage broke apart and he then faced charges for selling and profiting from illegal software and got probation dean lost his home and illegally occupied a portion of the abandoned commercial building next to his former office i leaked this info in an anti-gentrification regional facebook group the zone was under scrutiny because residents were being pushed away he used the spot as a small office and living quarters the residents wanted it as a community center they held a protest right in front of the building the police eventually came and he was charged with trespassing and stealing electricity from nearby buildings goodbye probation charlie was harder to nail he disappeared for years i could not find him but his mistake was gaining some confidence his social media became moderately active and he claimed to own some bogus business he never appeared in any of his picture posts which made me wonder whether he was posting from inside of jail or something but i went to his aunt's profile and discovered that she posted regularly with some picture showing him at family gatherings i found out via her comments that he now had a young child and his legs were amputated from too much drinking same bad person same freaking liar on one of his pictures he had the caption happy birthday dear son even though cold hearted people are keeping us apart with this i found out he had an unpaid child support case i anonymously contacted both the baby mama and the child support division i gave them everything his aunt's address and every freaking place i knew he visited charlie was eventually arrested and new charges were filed including sexual battery and financial abuse of a mentally ill adult my case against him lasted almost two years and i only recovered three thousand dollars out of the 8 000 he took but seeing him all pale and listening to his trembling voice during the court hearings was satisfaction enough the case took a toll on his already weakened health as i watched his hands tremble he cried and got ill when he was sentenced he kind of just dropped his head and became super pale i remember the judge's opening sentence i'm tired of this case in over 10 years i read your name in multiple warrants and yet you avoid responsibility forcing us to spend taxpayer money tracking you what's wrong with you you plaid and bring up your health problems but none of that deterred you from stealing abusing and debilitating the integrity of those under your influence he served 4 years out of a 36 year sentence and died in 2019 guys and that wraps up today's episode let me know what you guys thought was op and the right for going scorched earth and does this revenge dip into nuclear revenge territory guys if you missed the last episode of our slash 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Length: 16min 59sec (1019 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 24 2020