on the website he would prominently
display images of famous talk-show hosts
I mean household names he would say that
he had been on these shows what appeared
to be endorsements from Montel Williams
and the view Lord in many of the 30,000
victims of this particular scheme
victims had said in witness interviews
that often times they relied on these
endorsements as a reason why they
trusted the service the problem the con
man running these ads was never on those
shows his promise for $99 his company
Golden Harvest would send consumers with
poor credit a list of lenders who might
give them a loan he also offered a 100%
guarantee of satisfaction what happened
consumers got nothing for their money he
chose to offer this service as bogus
service for $99 and as part of this I
think that was calculated to it's enough
money for him to make you know 3 million
dollars over just a short number of
years but at the same time it's a small
enough amount where the victims feel
well I don't know if it's worth my time
these are just some of the thousands of
complaints consumers sent by mail
demanding their money back
in response the con man in question
would actually insult those who dared to
complain when people would take the time
to email him and complain that they're
not their refunds aren't being honored
he would that's when he would take the
time to insult them to talk about their
poor spelling and tell them that
probably the reason they have a poor
credit is because they aren't very
intelligent postal inspectors began
investigating after numerous consumers
began complaining to the Better Business
Bureau