- Report: #899946
Complaint Review: Michael McDougal - south clermont Florida
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clermont, Florida, United States of America
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Michael McDougal
15916 robin hill loop south clermont, 34714 Florida, United States of America
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Michael McDougal mike mcdougal, mike mcdougal 11/2/1984 stole money, fraud, intent to defraud, grand theft over 300 dollars south clermont, Florida
This guy is rediculous. He pretended to work for orange lake resorts and offered to get our family a discount on a cruise to the bahamas. He had the name of the boat, cruise times, rooms and confirmation numbers for the booking. He claimed to have put a 50 dollar deposit on the rooms for us and since he was an aquaintance of my husband we trusted him with our money which ended up being the sum of 765 dollars. He gave us fake confirmation and within days I had it figured out. As if this isn't bad enough he continued saying that his travel agent friend or hook up through work had not booked the cruise yet and that it would take 3-5 buisness days. He continued to give us the run around and I caught on to the scam at this point contacted royal carribean and they said the cruise was booked and not paid for. After confronting him we asked for our money back and at this time he said that "his lawyer" suggested he pay in such a way that he have a receipt so he sent us an email that he forged from regions bank that appeared to be a western union receipt except this was actually a fraudulent email as well. We filed an official police report and are also dealing with both the banks fraud department as well as western union's fraud department. The money is not the main concern it is the fact that he seems to have done this before and please watch out and do not give this guy your money!!
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Joe
Orlando,Florida,
United States
He’s still doing this, did the same to me
#2Consumer Comment
Wed, July 04, 2018
I gave him 400 dollars of my money and he emailed me a "western union” wire transfer from Regions. Western Union had no record of this. He kept on saying it will go through but 2 days later no transfer. I knew by this point it was a scam because of what I read here and I pulled up old court records. He finally said it wasn’t from western union but his bank, despite saying western union in his fake email. He finally stopped responding to me after I called him out on his scam and demanded my money back. He claimed he would meet me etc. but this never happened. I told him I would be filing a police report and he thought it was funny and told me his lawyer would contact me.
I know he doesn’t have one because he’s had to get the public defender on his cases. True to my word I filed a police report, and he’s looking at possible charges for Theft By Deception and Scheme to Defraud. He is also on probation out of Sarasota County, and I have left a message for his probation officer. The fake email and the messages back and forth are possibly enough for a case. I also have a friend who is a former Assistant State Attorney that is going to help me get in contact with the State Attorneys Office. I may never get my money back, but I will personally make sure his days or scamming people are over.
Jennifer
Reading,Pennsylvania,
USA
Do not loan this worthless human any money.
#3REBUTTAL Individual responds
Thu, October 05, 2017
This guy just did the same thing to me. Fake Regions email after i loaned him money I have a fake Regions,Venmo & Moneygram transfers that were supposed to be my money owed back to me that are fake. After some investigation I found out he is on probation and i will be meeting with that person on Friday Oct 6th 2017
