These folks have mastered the art of separating fools from their money.
Somebody has to do it!
I’m not ashamed to admit they got some of my money and I didn’t really understand at the time what they were. And they WILL lie right to your face. And a lot of law enforcement are okay with them because Alcoholics Anonymous and huge donations to police departments and stuff like that. How much money do YOU donate to your local police? Is it tens of thousands of dollars at a time? If not, your complaints probably won’t compete with scientology’s complaints about you if you upset them by, you know, telling anyone the truth about them.
It was just a few hundred bucks, fortunately, and lesson learned - actually I played a little joke on the lady who scammed me and wow, did she ever get angry. (No one got killed, by the way. I just took advantage of one of her expressed vulnerabilities. You get heavily involved in scientology first by allowing them to scam you and you act like you’re ok with it or didn’t notice; if you’re still hanging around after they bankrupt you, then they teach you how to bankrupt others. Discipleship.)
And that’s how I found out what they do to people who pi$$ them off. Years of stalking and harassment, threats, libel, etc. I did get a lot of education for those few hundred bucks and I may live to see the end of Scientology, which I find exciting, because I will have helped.
I can understand perfectly why people don’t say more about the scam aspect of scientology now. And of course there’s blackmail, if you don’t fall for the scam.
I did not become associated with this lady via an interest in Scientology and when I first contacted her - she was offering another type of assistance through ads in the local news - she seemed to know stuff about me already. She told me, for example, that it was a well-known fact (”Everyone knows it!”) that the guys that I’d been in a band with were trying to kill me.
I didn’t necessarily believe that, but I wondered how she knew so much. I thought it was a mark of professionalism, I guess? (I’m not saying I was smart or responsible in doing this; I’m not proud of it but the point I want to make is I didn’t want anything to do with Scientology and had no interest in it whatsoever, and ended up getting scammed by one of them. Also, I ended up learning how she knew stuff about me when I had never met her before - they get dirt on you via various means at their disposal to blackmail you, like I said, if you don’t fall for the scam. That was an interesting ride. They did some damage, but my damage to them, when all the dust has settled, will end up having been a lot worse.) #ScientologyDown
“Somebody has to do it!”
Haha, true enough - but unless you have a huge, billion-dollar organization devoted to the scam, with lots of lawyers, to watch your back, you’ll probably go to jail pretty quick. Just think: If you, by yourself, started doing the credit card scam described herein and got just four or five suckers to fall for it, you wouldn’t have even five minutes to enjoy your ill-gotten gains before you went to jail, if the bank itself didn’t send a couple of goons to divest you of your car or other property, if not break your kneecaps.
Chase Bank blacklisted them. That was the “consequence” for them stealing millions.