Syed Abdullah
Bangkok,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Thu, November 18, 2004
Anthony Tobin was introduced to me 5 years ago and claimed that he could finance Projects in Thailand. He came to Thailand and took some money from a Party that I had introduced to him. ( I did not get any money from this ) My company name has nothing to do with Anthony Tobin and I have never been employed by him or received any money from him. Anthony Tobin took money from my contact and then disappeared from Thailand. That was 4 years ago and I have not seen or heard from him since then. Further more I have received e-mails from a company JWF Financial who are trying to sucker me into their scam. I would request that my name not be associated with Tobin and his gang of crooks and that my company be releived of that also.
Rick
Detroit,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, September 17, 2003
I think that Ms. Drazga has been severly wronged by the post that have been made here. I hope you will find my comments accurate and see fit to have it removed so not to cause further damage to her. Subject: Identity of Barbara Drazga Posted By: candrm - Registered User Posted At: (9/15/03 7:51 pm) Reply For those of you who dont know me, which will be most of you, I have spent the last two years trying to keep people informed about the due diligence fee scam that is run by Anthony Tobin. I have helped numerous people make the wise choice and steer clear of him and the likes of Eyal Dulin, Louis Klaassen, Mike Louie, Kitt Scott and the others. I was almost scammed by them and I want to be sure that everyone is aware of how they operate. Today I a writing to correct what I perceive to be a grossly misinformed position of the identity of Barbara Drazga by a poster known as scambuster. I was contacted by Barbara Drazga about a week ago asking for some information about Tony David (aka Anthony Tobin) and his company Newport Capital. She was questioning whether I knew if they could perform. Usually I respond immediately with a warning about Tobin and the due diligence fee scam that he runs. However this time I hesitated because I recalled seeing a post by scambuster on a few due diligence boards. In each of then scambuster claims that Barbara Drazga is actually Barbara Forman, who I assume you all know if you are reading this post. I have had my run in with Forman in the past. I too, like many of you, have been threatened with the same liable suit that Forman tries to scare you with for exposing her as a fraud. When I got Drazgas email I wasnt about to let myself to get into the email pissing match that is Formans style. So I thought I would do a bit of my own due diligence on Barbara Drazga. I started with the obvious. Her email address is from a domain name called FundABusiness.com. The whois on this domain shows it licensed to Barbara Drazga. Her email contact is [email protected]. She also has registered www.1stimpress.com and www.energypromotion.com which appear to be sites selling publications to the power industry. Both of these have registered addresses of Aurora, Colorado. So after that I ran her name through a Google search. It turned up a suprising number of hits. The top few are links to the posts that have been made by scambuster. Those threads have consisted of accusations by scambuster usually followed by threats from Barbara Forman saying that she is not Barbara Drazga and posts by Drazga stating that she is not Forman. However further down the Google list(but still on the first page) was a link for www.commercialwriting.com. My check on this shows that it is registered to Baraba Drazga in Aurora, Colorado. What got my interest about this site is that is contained a photo of Ms. Drazga which is certainly a good start in any due diligence effort. Additionally her site contained links to articles to really publications that had published the writings of Ms. Drazga. It certainly seemed that this Ms Drazga was an actual person. Barbara Forman is not capable of creating a new identity with this level of detail. There were many more links on Google that pointed to the fact that there is someone named Barbara Drazga that lives in Aurora, Colorado and is a writer for industry publications. From there I went to another website. This where things got a bit concerning. On her site there were two pages that were titled How to Process Works and Top Ten Misconceptions About Venture Capital. At this point a chill went down my spine. These pages were copied, verbatim, from documents that I got from Anthony Tobin last year. Clearly there was some connection between Drazga and Tobin. However I was struggling with the fact that this person did not seem to be Barbara Forman. So I sent Drazga an email informing her that: 1. I was doing my own check to find out if she was Barbara Forman 2. It was obvious from the pages on her website that she was associated with Tobin Her response was surprising. She acknowledged that she was new to the finance business and had taken some clients to Tobin, believing that he was a real investor. She had been given the pages from Tobin and incorporated them into her site because she thought that it added value to her site. She removed those pages immediately after I emailed her. I have never met Barbara Forman. I asked some of the people that I know did business with her and the woman that they describe is not the one in the photo at www.commercialwriting.com. With all this said and remaining open minded to any facts I may have missed, I think it is clear that Barbara Drazga is not Barbara Forman. The biggest mistake that she has made is not doing her own check on these guys before taking her clients to them. However, she is not the first (yours truly comes to mind) and, assuredly, not the last. Based on my recent emails with her, I dont think she will make that mistake twice. In the off chance that someone can prove otherwise I would like to hear from them. Don't get me wrong here, I think that scambuster has done an admirable job with the posts as they relate to Forman. I just think there is a possibility that this time they are wrong. It concerns me that someone can be faced with a smear campaign on the boards by someone who has simply failed to do their own homework. There is a real potential that the things said on this and other due diligence boards will have a significant effect on people in the real world. As usual anyone who wants to make any comments, please post them below..
Barbara
Denver,#4REBUTTAL Individual responds
Fri, September 05, 2003
As a followup, my website has NOTHING to do with Barbara Forman, John Forman, JWF FINANCIAL, BARBARA FRANCIS, Anthony, Tobin, Tony David, Anthony David, or WORLDWIDE FINANCE. I insist you remove all of your false references to my name and my site from your website. Barbara Drazga (No AKAs)
Barbara
Denver,#5REBUTTAL Individual responds
Fri, September 05, 2003
I am shocked that my name and website have been listed on this site. I have NO relation to Barbara Forman whatsoever (other than unfortunately sharing her first name). Per your post "Now operating as AKA Barbara Francis or BARBARA DRAZGA" This is false and slanderous. I have never met this person Barbara Forman, and my research into her concludes that I have no interest in meeting someone of her unprofessional nature. I have ripped no one off, wronged no one, and have not misrepresented myself in ANY way. I do lead generation seeking companies looking for venture capital funding. I am in no way related to Anthony Tobin or his companies. We work with various venture capital firms to find our clients financing, with Tobin being ONE of these firms. We have absolutely no affiliation with them. We collect no fees from companies looking for funding. In fact, I was using this site to research their business practices when I came acroos your slanderous posting of me. I have taken NO fees from anyone and do not misrepresent what I do: lead generation at no cost to the company looking for funding. I demand that you remove my name from association with the unsavory Barbara Forman, AND post an immediate retraction and apology for insulting and slandering me and my firm. Should you have any questions about me or my business practices, I suggest that you actually CONTACT me before making slanderous and false accusations. I take exception to your post and await a reponse before sending this matter to my attorney.