Michael Hauer He was promoting the sale of new exclusive leads. They were over a year old and sold to countless other mortgage professionals Naperville il
Michael Hauer called my cell phone stating he ran his own company generating mortgage leads. He offered to provide 50 exclusive, qualified leads of current consumers looking for home loans at the cost of $600.00. I agreed to pay.
I went to his home at (((REDACTED))) Naperville, Il (((REDACTED))) and dropped off a check to him.
Feb 22nd Was the first day he had sent over a dozen “leads” or so containing names, phone numbers, social security number, date of births etc. After calling the first group of contacts I seemed suspicious. A number of the phone numbers were disconnected, any contact I did make many of the people seemed confused stating they have not given out their information, others had already purchased homes.
Bringing this information up to Michael, he attempted to make a number of excuses as to why they were reacting as such and promised to follow up with them to have them re-engage. After about a week there was not any re-engagement with the first list of contacts.
March 2nd I was sent another list of leads to contact. After going through the same iteration, I received the same confused responses or identified many of these people have already purchased homes. It was clear these leads were over a year old and recycled.
Luckily I was able to meet with one of the contacts in my office. During that meeting another loan officer was contacting him, which I connected with to find he had purchased the same old leads.
I confronted Michael about this, he denied it and demanded the second payment. I demanded my initial payment back ending communication.
This guy is a crook. I will be communicating with other lenders to go after him both criminally and civilly. Selling peoples social security numbers, dob's and other personal information unknown to them is theft and a crime. Taking money with ill willed intentions is flat out fraud.