Victim Location 80203
Type of a scam Employment
I was contacted on Linked In for a "business opportunity". Catherine Martin asked me what my bandwidth was with my current job and that she was seeking my marketing consultant services (and I get emails from people looking for these services regularly). I met her for coffee so she could meet me and "see if she liked me, and tell me more about her business". During this coffee session, she told me virtually nothing about her business, instead probed me with personal and professional questions. One that stood out to me, and was a huge red flag, was "Have you ever had unconventional income resources?" My response was, "what do you mean by that?" She responded, "You know, like a pyramid scheme?". Of course, I said absolutely not. She handed me the book "Rich dad, Poor dad" and said her business was modeled after it. At this point, I had a firm understanding that this was not a meeting about my marketing consulting services, but bait to get sucked into a series of scheme-y seminars. I made a follow up meeting to return her book, because being an intelligent, educated, and well-rounded street smart person, (and I was raised to be polite) but was not going to listen to this pitch any longer. Returning her book was on the bottom of my priority list, I had other meetings and needed to reschedule with her, and gave her plenty of notice. She proceeded to rudely text and harass me with phone calls when I did not want to meet with her again, and offered to drop off or ship her the book she desperately needed back.