Jacob Wohl's Fake P.I. Firm Ghosted on Ex-Homeless Woman Looking For Her Stolen Truck
Source: The Daily Beast
Julienne Adams began to suspect something was awry with Surefire Intelligence when all of its phone numbers suddenly disconnected.
Adams, a 35-year-old Washington state native, had hired the private investigations firm to recover damages for a truck she says was stolen. She had found Surefire through postings on Craigslist, where it billed its impressive roster of former Israeli intelligence agents and other experts in financial and criminal investigations. Its website appeared to be legitimate, and Adams even found a pair of glowing writeups about the company on the publishing platform Medium. She eventually ponied up $1,200 for Surefires services.
Adams had spoken with the firms ostensible managing partner, Matthew Cohen, last Friday, and he was optimistic about recovering tens of thousands of dollars from the man whom Adams accused of stealing her Hummer. They were scheduled for an in-person meeting in Portland, Oregon, near her home in southern Washington, on Tuesday.
Then the whole thing blew up. Cohen, it turns out, doesnt actually exist. His real name is Jacob Wohl, and hes a pro-Trump twitter troll and former teenage hedge fund manager with the dubious distinction of being the youngest person ever to earn a lifetime trading ban from the National Futures Association.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohls-fake-pi-firm-ghosted-on-a-destitute-woman-looking-for-her-stolen-truck
Is Wohl in prison yet?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Leghorn21
(13,522 posts)More charges, more fun, more press conferences?!??
So sorry Ms. Adams was taken in - glad shes speaking up, though
shit be cray when it comes to Master Wohl,
w o w
- on second thought, this is just ONE person we know about that this kid scammed- will others appear? Is he the head of a vast criminal enterprise, this kid?
w o w
Oh! The Surefire Intel twitter acct explains it all:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SurefireIntel
Okay then!
keithbvadu2
(36,653 posts)"bespoke" - A great word choice to sound impressive.
At the least, he deserves credit for that one.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,584 posts)demmiblue
(36,822 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,290 posts)NT
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)cstanleytech
(26,224 posts)fraud.
RockRaven
(14,893 posts)I want to know.
Brother Buzz
(36,373 posts)All Three!
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,311 posts)... when first we practice to deceive.
He needs more practice.
SergeStorms
(19,182 posts)It's in their DNA. They're all hardwired for criminal activity. Some are better at it than others, but 99.9% of them are fucking morans.
Initech
(100,034 posts)Because they certainly have a lack of it!
iluvtennis
(19,833 posts)PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)of Jacob's lawyer-daddy David Wohl? This guy's another major-domo tRump asskisser in a clear case of the apple not falling far from the tree. Between this father-son tag team, looks like they've registered a whole bunch of shady-A businesses that, from what we've seen of everything else so far, there's a high likelihood of finding a boatload of "clients" who've been ripped off---class action suit, perhaps?
I know the Arizona Corporation Commission found one of their companies guilty of securities fraud in a case that was brought by only two clients whose money they took.
From the desk of: The American M.O.B. (Majority Opinion Blowback)
"My American M.O.B. over the GOP's Russian Mob any day, any time...Let's roll!"
marble falls
(56,997 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)cheating all these people?
Hav
(5,969 posts)If she paid the money, then this has to be a scam that can be prosecuted, right? I hope she has receipts. They know who is behind it, they know that the founder of that firm was operating under a false name with a made up website with fictional employees and fictional stories about what they were have been doing in the past.
So far, because he had a lawyer by his side, I was fearing that Wohl would get away with smearing Muller because a lawyer has to know the boundaries of what is allowed. But this case was probably done without the lawyer's knowledge. No lawyer can be that dumb and ignorant. Wohl probably thought he could make some extra bucks or he thought he could actually be an investigator and find the truck. Not sure which scenario is more ridiculous.
Edit: Finally read to the end, and wow, he is a disturbing con man. He told her about a settlement for the car of 20k and when this whole Surefire thing ended in the fiasco and her story was made public, he claimed she sold the car and tried to scam the buyer. Yeah, makes sense that the buyer of the car would have approved a 20k settlement if he had bought the car. This is some insane stuff.
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)Dipshit's primary enabler is his lawyer father.
maxrandb
(15,295 posts)Bengus81
(6,928 posts)Especially the part about him living with his mom.
truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)So completely stupid.