Victim Location 30141
Total money lost $3,000
Type of a scam Home Improvement
Mark Kimbrough will contract you via phone, emails and social media and also frequents Home Depot at Cascade and other home improvement stores passing out his business cards to shoppers. He will indicate that he is licensed, bonded/insured and specializing in insurance claims; promising to save you a lot of money by performing all work himself; using no subcontractors.
He creates extremely long project contracts filled with duplicated statements; inconsistencies and contradictions. If you ask that the contract be modified; he will insist it is written for your benefit and say "I perform work for insurance claims all the time; just trust me". He will then offer prayer about your partnership for the job. He will then provide all requested documents to the insurance company; unfortunately, the most important are fraudulent/fake to include his business license, insurance coverage and W9. He will state that he is going to perform all work himself; no subcontractor.
He will place special emphasis on his love of God and insist on praying with you with the intention of PREYING ON YOU. He will contact you with kind words and encouragement almost daily until the funds are in hand; at that time his personality changes and you will likely never see him again.
Do not release any funds to him; he will sign acknowledging receipt of funds then you will never see him again and he will mock your attempts to obtain justice because he has mastered this theft by deception act.