RE: Warning: Ben Schwartz is a Scammer who owes me 2600 SBD
I was duped into thinking I was a friend and I even invited Ben to stay with me in the UK, luckily he was detained at passport control and sent back to Portugal (just after SteemFest last year). Even visited him in the immigration detention centre.
He eventually got back to the US, cos his mom felt sorry for him and got him a ticket home in time for Thanksgiving. Now in Mexico eh?
So yeah, I was well and truly suckered in too. Fell for his sob stories though and came up with my own solutions, he didn't ask me as I wanted to help get back on his feet so bad and had the means to help.
One of those was to get him a cellphone on credit, as I have a buy now, pay in 12 months and I trusted him enough to 'know' that he would pay it back within the year.
Why?
His phone was 'stolen' when he had one of his seizures so he couldn't move forward with Pandacoin or his website business, as everything on his laptop that he needed to access was 2FA enabled, for which he needed a phone. So he could not earn anything to get him out of Portugal or get home to US. He was living in a hostel and he hated it.
We had written on discord most days from about Sept through to November and I considered him a friend. Even defended him to @neoxian when he first didn't make payment of his loan back.
Funny not heard from him in about 6 months now.
It is insane the lengths some people will go to. Krikey!!! What an absolute schmuck!
Its sad because he could have created something new and earned that money instead.
Steem is the blockchain of opportunity afterall.
exactly!!!
omg, i remember him saying that just the other day in palnet re: losing the lappy. lemme see if i can find it.
i have also gone through many losses in the past couple years. but i dont expect to be paid because i had a run of shit luck.
i just have to get back on the horse, so to speak, and try to rebuild from the losses.
Thinking about it, it was his phone he said he lost and he couldn't get onto to his laptop or any of his cryptocurrency accounts to get any money out to pay for anything or his debts, as it was all 2FA enabled. I will edit. The latest post from @getslothyy was about how he lost his laptop.
I remember having several run ins with him in the unmentionable group as I saw early on how he was using the bot to reward himself. It's unfortunate that he was able to silence me and kicked me out of the group before I was able to alert everyone. It is shitty that people like this exist and even shittier that he feels no remorse for duping people.
I hope @therealwolf is able to get his money back but I highly doubt it. I guess it is just a hard lesson learned. I hadn't followed up on Ben after he booted me out of the discord group, just saw that all the higher members left and created a new group because of suspicious activity.
This strikes me personally as I was ostracized and cut out of this group because he was good at manipulating people and playing on their emotions, whereas I just called it how it was. Hope this post gets some more visibility and more people come forward.
Shitty situation my friend, sorry to hear
This things seem really strange to me. So some folks are spammers on this platform... So unfair.
I didn't hear the rest of the story up to the point where he was sent back to Portugal. Now he's back in the states. Wonder what he's up to these days. Hopefully something honest. @ironshield
What a sad disappointment. You're a sweet person @hopehuggs.
Omg. I think they need to get him into some kind of treatment if he's like that. He needs a psychiatrist / psychologist or something to help him get rid of the scamming and lying.
Lauren Southern was detained and banned from the UK. I'm trying to say that good people are banned from countries in Europe. We can assume that if a person is detained, they are automatically bad and that may or may not be the case. But Ben is probably bad.
He was detained because he had no return ticket and no money and our stories didn't match when the immigration officer called me from Gatwick. I felt terrible at the time. But I agree, being detained doesn't necessarily mean being bad. I think all the other proof on that speaks for itself here.
But on the other hand, the borders are opened most of the time for people who are not even from those countries in Europe. Tommy Robinson and Faith Goldy and @Stefan.Molyneux and others talk about it in their videos and we can see it each day in so many videos and in the photos and they throw people in jail for talking about the no-go zones.
wow hard storys =s