Obtained my Debit/Credit Card Info from other site
Complaint
Olga
Country: United States
Has withdrawn over $100 from my account under other assumed names. The phone numbers are just recordings of which they do not respond to messages I've left or the phone number is not activated.The withdrawals have been from SEOB, CONEXM, SEO2Prompts, and WEB PROS 6. I have tried looking up an address but have not been successful. How can they get away with this. How can the government allow this. Someone told me that once a co. gets your card info they sell the information to others. Everyone makes out accept the card holder.
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I cannot believe Alma is still getting away all of this garbage! It has been 10 years since I have seen or heard about him. Now I did get used and used pretty bad, but nothing compares to the stories I have read here and heard elsewhere from investors etc. My heart aches for each and every single one of you, my deepest sympathies for all.
Alma plays the victim, he always feels victimized and people play right into his story and they feel bad and want to help. Alma is a GREAT used car salesman. His lies go so deep, he's not even a real programmer, never even graduated from college. His true or real education is the old school Network Marketing and MLM's of manipulation. He is a GREAT manipulator, he is out for #1, himself only, by making others feel like #2.
He needs to be stopped, he has been doing this kind of thing for well over 10 years I believe.
Honestly I'm just glad that I haven't seen him for years, and won't ever again barring some horrible misfortune. I wonder what his family thinks of him?
I am not aware of the details of this particular venture, so I have no legitimate opinion on the propriety of what he did or did not do. Having said that, there are a couple of things that I can comment on... As someone who knows Alma extremely well, I do not believe that he intentionally took advantage of anyone. He too was a victim in all of this. It seems to me, in reading these posts that many of you invested in what was clearly a risky investment, and when it did not go as planned (which they often do not), rather than look in the mirror and take responsibility for making a bad investment, many of you are simply looking for a fall guy to point the finger at. If this had gone well for you, then you would be singing his praise. To compound matters, it seems like some of you, rather than chalking up your losses to bad judgment and moving on, you are basking in your defeat and misery. These are clear indications of immature and unsophisticated investors, who had no business investing or committing to investments that they could not afford. Shame on YOU for making bad, and ignorant decisions, then blaming others for your mistakes!
To put the time and energy into this AFTER you made a bad investment seems more than a little naive. You should have done your due diligence BEFORE you made your business decisions. And if you are saying "I did" then clearly you didn't do it well enough and you had no business making any investment, particularly with money you could not afford to loose. Dumb!! own it, move on and get over it! I can say this from experience, because I have made investments that did not pay out as planned, lost my money and realized that i had invested in things way over my head. I got a second job, recovered from the loss and took what I had learned and invested again. Sometimes it worked out, sometimes it didn't, but I always knew at the end of the day that I was the one to blame, for better or worse. That has served me well. It is empowering.
I was actually amused by the fact that when Alma's attorney posted on this site, some of you took the time to research and attack her. Really, wouldn't your time be better spent on productive things? Come to think about it, Ill bet you are searching about me online as you read this. If you are, that is what we call in the investigation business "a clue" that i am talking to you... So here is my advice... Use whatever your experience was as a learning experience. In the scheme of things, if you put it in the proper prospective the experience, however painful financially it was, will serve you for the rest of your life by helping you avoid similar and perhaps more costly mistakes in the future. This is how wisdom is earned.
Thanks Alma for helping these people gain wisdom. Although they don't realize it now, if you did do anything to cause this mess, and I doubt that you did... but if you did, you actually did these people a favor in the scheme of things because you helped them gain wisdom and life experience that will, if they allow it, serve them well.
You suspect Alma had nothing to do with his investors recovering 0% of their investment? Alma has provided no proof otherwise. When his scheme went south he immediately cut off communication from everyone. He made no attempt to disclose what happened to the capital or revenue of the business. He would provide no financial documents. You allege you've made bad investments...did you at least know where your money went? How are we to know if it was just a bad investment if we don't know what happened to the money we invested? Alma just up and disappeared like a thief in the night.
Trust me and the rest, wisdom was earned, & we're spending valuable time warning others of the mistake of conducting business with Alma. If he's so innocent of the accusations made against him in this blog, then why doesn't he share his side of the story? Attitudes towards him would be much different if he had sat down with everyone and explained what happened...
Alma did not have a formal computer science education. His father is a fairly proficient programmer, so he might be considered to have completed an apprenticeship of a sorts; I wouldn't be surprised if he was still weak in some areas of programming, such as using algorithms effectively.
He got into MLMs before he was 20, and always had the sparkle of future money in his eyes. After that point the entire time I knew him he always had a plan for getting rich, from his early attempts at selling water purifiers and filters to selling tracking software to private prisons. He was always passionate about his prospects and had a way of capturing the imagination that made me feel as if I could get rich just by knowing him.
I can't tell you what his family thinks of him now, I haven't seen them for just as long as I haven't seen him. I do know that during the time I knew them that they didn't blame him or anything, he always came across as unlucky and in many cases betrayed or back-stabbed by his partners. That may have changed by now, but I doubt it based upon how little 'footprint' his family has online.
I do know that one person that considers themselves to be ex-family of his is pretty disgusted with how he turned out. That feeling is probably mutual, but I also know that they don't care and have no plans to see him or his family ever again.
I'm not Anonymous, I'm just Curious.
Nothing I've read is surprising or incorrect, and is in accordance with what I know of him. I know the other names too, and they too are guilty of many fraudulent actions. But Alma is the mastermind. I don't know if he's even aware that he's unethical.
I hope he finds a way to be happy and redeem himself, but I can't see how that would happen without serving time. As someone who knows him and his family, he's a product of decent parents with a broken and dysfunctional family that is all too willing to buy into Alma's lies, because they see him as a potential way out of the middle class. Sadly, their trust in him has only made this all worse.
To Alma's family, particularly his wife and kids, God Bless.