Complaint Review: Jeremy Rose - ST. Augustine Florida

I am writing to you to make sure that you know that Jeremy Rose is a scam artist. I met Jerry in St. Augustine, FL. He presented himself to me and everyone else in St. Augustine as being from Ireland and spoke with a thick Irish accent. He suckered us all with tales of his time in the Irish Special Forces and of his many tours of duty. He sat on my couch and cried as he told me about how he got the large scar on the right side of his body while in Kobul, saving a child from a bombed building. He cried about the fellow service men he had lost and about all the death and destruction he had seen there. He told elaborate stories of his boyhood in Ireland, of how close he is to his mother, of how he loves to dote on and spoil his daughter, Lucy Rose. He lived in my house with me as this man for almost 3 weeks, as this gentle, kind, generous, noble, sensitive, caring bear of a man. Unfortunately, not one bit of it is true.

Jeremy is really from Auburn, NY. He is american born and bred and his real speaking voice has no accent at all. He is not even of Irish descent. He has met his daughter only once and has given her no financial or emotional support over the years. His ex-wife, Flavia, was another one of his victims...everything he told her was lies as well. He has been in and out of jail for scheming to defraud and organized fraud charges over the last 18 years. He has stolen from his mother Patty, his father, and his sisters Amy and Kate many, many times. When I first met him but prior to him staying with me, he stole the rent money from a man that had opened his apartment to Jeremy by telling him he was going to get a cashiers check for two months rent and pay the landlord. The roomate gave him his share of the rent money and the landlord was never paid. This man has been thrown out of his apartment as a result of his trying to help Jeremy out. Jeremy spent a great deal of time and energy getting me to trust him and to believe how much he said he cared about me. And I was starting to have real feelings for the man in front of me. Jeremy did steal some money from me while he was staying here, I am a waitress and always have cash on hand. But what he took from me is far worse than the money I am missing. He had me falling for a character that doesn't even exist. Unless you have been through something similar I don't know that you can understand how devestating this is, to have been scammed not for you money, not for someone's survival, but for your emotions, because they get a rush from it. The whole time he was staying with me as an Irishman, he was calling old friends in Auburn from my phone at night when I was at work, telling them he had really straightened his life out, really learned his lesson and that he had gotten his act together. More lies. And just to show how good his "irish" accent was, one of the many people he has scammed was from England, born and raised, with many Irish friends back home.

And I wish I could say that mine was an isolated incident. Sadly, no. A few days ago, I connected with a woman from Charleston, SC that he did the exact same thing to TWO MONTHS AGO. That means that only days after she kicked him out of her life for being a scam artist, he came to St. Augustine and started it all over. While scamming her, he also scammed a friend of hers, an 86 year old veteran, out of almost $5000. She and I have talked extensively, and he told us both all the exact same things: about his background, about his daughter, about how much he loved us and had not felt this way in years...he used all the exact same phrasing, all the exact same ploys to get us to trust him. I am sure that she wasn't his first time doing this and I am sure that I won't be the last.

In looking into Jeremy's past, I have found countless victims, men and women that have been scammed by and stolen from by Jeremy. He also goes by Jerry Rose, Will Rose, and William Rose. He was born on December 10, 1970. His other favorite stories to use are pretending to be a recording star from Nashville or Memphis (takes on a southern accent for this one) and also pretending to be connected with family ties to the Italian mafia in New York and living off a family trust fund. He will pretend to make a bank transfer of a large sum of money into your bank account, which will never appear. He may pretend to pay some of your bills, buy plane tickets, etc, on the phone right in front of you...more lies. He is broke and penniless except for what he steals. His mother told me that he has been classified as a sociopath, which means he feels no remorse for his actions and no connection to other human beings. Jeremy will never change.

If you encounter Jeremy Rose, please call the police. If you cannot prove what he has stolen from you (cash, etc) at least file a police report to add to the paper record of what he has done. His victims are often ashamed and embarrassed that they have been scammed and so don't report it to the police...this is exactly what Jeremy is going for and what allows him to get away with so much. If everyone he has scammed filed charges, countless of us would have been spared, and Jeremy's jail times would get longer and longer. The only time Jeremy isn't scamming someone is when he is in jail. But at all times, if Jeremy Rose is talking, Jeremy Rose is lying.

Oncebitten

saint augustine, Florida

U.S.A.