Tierra Maria Estates Scam

Tierra Maria Estates Scam - The final slam!

April 5, 2008

Tierra Maria Estates Scam - SOS - Save Our Skin

PREDICTABLE OR WHAT?

From my posting on 21st February 2008 . . .

I can confidently predict that the next move they will take, is to
miraculously produce Mayen - bring her into the discussions taking place
online in some forum or other - and proceed with a carefully scripted
denouncement of my accusations - the very same stone-walled denial that I have been subject to since August. They will simply repeat my story -
illustrated with fabrication - false testimony - excusing all the evidence -
with yet more exotic lies - words - cheap words - forged in the furnace of their tribulation.
Well - if anyone is remotely interested in following this online Oprah
debacle - what will certainly be a complete travesty of honesty - go ahead - be their guests.

WATCH THE VIDEO - HERE

When I asked Mayen to show me her scar, during the webcam chat on 26/09/07 - she had a golden opportunity to show me right there and then.
There were only two other people in the cafe - it could easily have been done discretely.
What followed was a complete fudging of the issue - why it could only be shown to me the following morning - and indescrepencies were made in the excuses I received by SMS.

The reason I am starting off by mentioning this event is because it is illustrative of the behaviour demonstrated throughout.
Proof is only profound and pertinent if it occurs when the opportunity first presents itself. At any other time - especially months down the line - one cannot avoid the question “Why was this not done at the time?”
Mayen and Sir Francis knew from the earliest moment of my suspicions - therefore every piece of information sent to me acted in one way or another - as proof.
The events surrounding August 10th 2007 were never given the urgent respect that they deserved in this context - and the result of their neglect is that the scam was revealed.

Let us never forget that the language of scammers, deceivers, confidence tricksters - is the language of emotional manipulation.
Always depending on a certain weakness being present in the victim.
In the case of a scam such as this - that weakness is love and desire.

The latest offering - which is supposed to be influential as proof of Mayen’s innocence - and more importantly the innocence of Tierra Maria Estates - comes in the shape of a video interview.
A humorous introduction in pseudo-documentary style, complete with saccharine sound track and laughable attempts at voice-overs (which sound mysteriously as if they have been purposely distorted - so as not to incriminate the owners.)
It certainly will appeal (just as the similarly styled Tierra Maria Estates promotional videos do) to those accustomed to a poor diet of mock Hollywood, “B” movie veneer - where superficiality is mistakenly seen as class.
Unfortunately for the makers of this video - it comes across as a spoof - thus accurately setting the tone for the material that follows - an hour long interview of Mayen.
A quieter location would have been preferred as the background noise is often distracting - but I suppose a public place is suitably anonymous - chosen again for its non-incriminating value.
The end credits consist of photographs stolen from my Flickr photostream - and caustic messages from the recent rash of bloggers - denying that they were paid for their activities, proving, once and for all, that they are as thick as thieves - they’d all been briefed to say the same thing.

Essentially - it’s a guided nuclear missile - designed exclusively to totally devastate my emotional DNA.
A great deal of the dialogue is in Tagalog - to give the false impression that it is for general public consumption - with occasional subtitles to drive home key points.
But this is a weapon - bearing all the hallmarks of the scammers devious psychological methods - with one singular victim in its sights.

Fortunately I ducked at just the right time - I had seen it approaching my horizon over a month ago.

Yes - it is hard when confronted with deception - such consumate acting skill - and yet we see it all the time on the stage, on TV - and we willingly suspend our disbelief.
It is so much easier for the confidence trickster on the stage of real life - where trickery is not expected and when the eager hopes of the victim do most of the work.
In order to succeed not a single mistake can be made - one single lie, one flaw - and the forgery is revealed for what it is - a fake.
Their job is to produce a seamless, convincing alternative to reality - that is perfectly believable.
What we see here in this video - the tears, the smiles - is the sugar coating to a very bitter pill - a drug who’s virtual intoxication over the Internet is all the more powerful because of the absence of the normal tells and clues of behaviour.
I am, in a way, slightly inured to it now - having been subjected to it since August 2007 - but for the unaccustomed - only by grasping firmly the motivation for this behaviour - money - can it start to be understood.

Of course now, months after the events themselves - the story can be “fleshed out” with suitably realistic imagery . . . “carried downstairs on a little plastic chair.”
They have virtually a completely empty canvas to paint on their own details - something Mayen herself and scammers in general - are expert at - deception - telling lies.
Just read in my blog how convincing she can be - and here’s another example - as Mayen paints a picture of the life she is having in Surigao - where she is pretending to be, just after ” leaving the hospital.”
Of course - the IP address on all of these emails reveals that she is holed up somewhere else - we believe possibly Cavite.

“I have changed my cellfone number its only you,my school friends and my family knows the number no other, hehehe. by the time i will go back to manila everything will be new.. new job, new friends and new people to meet..new life.. new challenge..im looking forward about it. and im ready, im more stronger hehehe.
Talking about the city fiesta, well its all fun.. everyone is enjoyed especially the SINULOG FESTIVAL- its a kind of street dancing.. every group contestant wore their native and colorful costumes.. they wore thier mascara in their faces.. its really very nice.. then we had the grand alumni night,i met all my school friends,and teachers..we talked about the past, the highschool days.. heheehe really funny. Most of them are married and have kids. wow what a life, in my batch there were only 8 singles including me.. hehehe..everyone’s happy.. eating others were drunk.. In my sister’s hauz oh my goodness we are really crowded, full house. almost all the member of my family is here.. tomorrow mama and papa will go back home to leyte.. and my other brother’s and my nieces.. i’ll stay in here. so i can communicate to you.. bakla also will stay also.”

Strange how, even in text, the lies are followed by a release of nervous laughter “he, he, he.”

Precisely as I had predicted in February - they are resorting to the only trick they know - in the absence of any material evidence to support their version of events - they bring Mayen back on to the scene.
Playing the sympathy card - months later than the events themselves - when the relevence of the details has become nicely blurred - they attempt further manipulation of the truth - by emotional persuasion.
That is the game that they have been playing since day one.
That is precisely how scammers operate.

If anyone is gullible, naive enough to be sucked into believing this version of events now - it is quite easy - many of the details can be excused and argued away - especially now. But believe in this - and you are entirely missing the point.
These details were extremely pertinent - how, why and when they occurred - but have to be seen within the time frame of their occurrence - seen as completely inappropriate responses to situations - that is where their power lies as evidence, as proof that events were not proceeding at all as a normal relationship should - but were unfolding exactly as a scam, a deception would.

I have been hearing these excuses since August 2007.
At last, almost a year after meeting Mayen for the first time online - events have come full circle. By showing Mayen with Noemi we have an established link between all the various characters who have been appearing online - masquerading sometimes under fake or anonymous identities - Mabs, Fermin, SouthernDon - who trumpeted an announcement that this video was on its way - the various voices heard in the forums - and Jepoy - who collaborated in the production of this masterpiece.

They are all in cahoots - striving for a common goal - the protection of a Big Business interest - the extracting of money from the west by deception - linked to real estate and the sex tourism industry.
They are defending their own little patch - trying to keep the whole shop window (the Internet) sparkling and clean - free from any negative influence, as represented by my story.
No wonder they are putting an inordinate amount of effort in this direction.
There are also many people who are afraid to speak out openly about this.

Tierra Maria however, apart from Sir Francis’s early, direct involvement, have never overtly shown themselves - they have not once communicated with me - content to have their dirty work done by proxy - using Mayen herself and lately personalities on the Internet.
Sir Francis’s recent public statement only very briefly saw the light of day before it was withdrawn.

I am in an unusual situation - my genuine love acts like armour plating - I am self-employed, my wife knows all about the situation - I have publicly announced it for the world to see on the Internet.
Most people involved in a situation like this would be trying to hide it - afraid of opening themselves to the blackmail attempts and threats that would surely follow were they to make any form of public declaration.
That explains why no other examples can be found.
Trying to use the excuse that “no other examples of a scam like this have been found” does nothing to illumine this particular situation - it was a despicable thing to attempt - whether once or a hundred times.

My personal attacks - countering the personal attacks from people who are allegedly “unconnected” are entirely justified - I’m simply playing them at their own game.
They got involved.
They allegedly did not know the people or the circumstances of the events - so in my opinion were sticking their noses where they did not belong.
This is between Mayen, Tierra Maria Estates (or more precisely, Sir Francis of Tierra Maria Estates) and myself.

The manner in which all these other people have materialised at more or less the same time - indicates that they had been mobilised by Tierra Maria Estates to combat my material online.
Unfortunately - Tierra Maria Estates themselves - in their efforts to keep distanced from all of this - have remained silent throughout - leaving it up to Mayen to twist me back into line - and remove my writings.
Big Business - remember.

No adequate proof was ever sent to me in a timely manner - only excuses for why this could never be done - and as explained thoroughly in my “Psychology of A Scam” posting - behaviour, all round & throughout has been a totally inappropriate response - always relying on emotional, blackmailing methods - instead of simply furnishing unambiguous proof.
Remember - this is all about manipulating emotions - modern day alchemists - transmuting love into gold.

My search for the truth had broadened to such a degree that Tierra Maria Estates could no longer ignore it - and so they enrolled collaborators - people already known to them - so that they could still keep their distance - keep their hands clean.

The current video is just such an attempt - to keep Tierra Maria Estates out of the picture - to let Mayen become the full focus again - absorb all the attention - while at the same time - trying to keep up appearances and also perhaps ensnare me back into the emotional trap once more.

Exaggerating my claims out of all proportion will make them appear to be ridiculous - that is their aim. Be sure to check the facts with my blog.
I have never suggested that numerous people were destined to share any payoff resulting from the scam. People can be influenced to do favours - especially when it is for a general commercial interest - without money changing hands.
That is precisely what I have always called Bayanihan Payola - doing favours out of a mutual interest - but the subtlety of the phrase is obviously lost in the translation somewhere.
Most of the people implicated only became involved in helping provide fake evidence, false testimony - after the first, simple scam attempt had failed and some are merely implicated by association, for remaining silent - I have never, ever suggested what the payoff was.

You see - unless you keep your wits about you - you might start to believe these people - stay alert - it is a Big Business that is at stake here - the very image of the Philippines is under siege.

Do not be led astray by the lies contained within Noemi’s text, or the narrative of the video. You see how easy it is to twist the truth after the events themselves have passed.

Lie No 1
Noemi lies about Mayen wanting to send me a photograph of the scar from the hospital.

“Tim Cumper refused to give his mailing address. Mayen wanted to prove that she really was hospitalized and wanted to send copies of her medical records and photos of her scar from the surgery.”

Here is the line from Mayen’s email to me:

“I have here all the receipts and invoices they are all numbered and legitimate. I will send it to you through DHL or fast pak.This is the least i could do while waiting for the office day to open. So please give me your address.”

It would have been an obvious thing to do at the time - had there been any photographs - but Noemi only inserts this lie to cover for the fact that the photographs from Mayen’s cell phone - of her “in hospital” were only created in January 2008.
Where is that photograph of the scar?
Not even Noemi has seen it or shows it on her blog.
They dare not create one simply because they cannot accurately recreate what was shown to me over the webcam - because they have never seen the video.

I quote Noemi:

“Did Mayen fake her hospitalization? Imagine all the preparation just to “fake” this photo?”

(Suggesting that the “hospitalization” really only exists in the photograph.)

The answer is yes, the hospital was already implicated, certain to have cooperated - considering the Big Business interest at stake - Tierra Maria Estates had no option.
The reason for me not passing on my address was to avoid blackmail and the sort of threats that have already appeared in emails - from coming through my letterbox at home.

Lie No 2
Mayen states that she spoke to the British Embassy on the telephone while in the hospital.
When I asked Carlos Tampinco at the embassy where did he get the information about Mayen from, he replied:

“Did you mean the source of information?
Hospital: Mr. Landicho - Accounts Manager.”

Lie No 3
Back to the old chestnut of Noemi’s IP address being the same as Sir Francis.

” He thinks Francis (one of his alleged scammer) used my username at FilipinaImages.com just because we have similar IP address. I blogged about it here and here to clarify his accusations.”

No - Noemi - it was not similar - it was identical - every digit. As a result it is unique - it is not shared by ISP’s - and we have previously tracked emails to Sir Francis which have been read at this IP address. Sir Francis tried the same trick before in August - pretending to be a business associate who I had written to about my suspicions.
Again - the IP address proved the lie.
A user name is easily changed.
We cannot take you seriously Noemi - give up - your hypocrisy betrays the very image you are trying to empower - they would do better without you.

Lie No 4
“The accused bloggers soon asked me if we could get Mayen’s story. Don’t ask me how we got her contact number. Call it divine intervention.”

The truth is that Mayen has been on the scene all the time - despite alleging that Sir Francis had “given her the sack” after she “left the hospital” - she never went to the province - she has been in the wings, making appearances - yes - the last time was Valentine’s day - perfectly coordinated with all the activity that has been happening online.
Playing the emotional card - the only trick they know - in a vain attempt to get Tierra Maria Estates out of the mess it is in.

Lie No 5
“Why are Tim’s conclusion based on a pixelated and blurry video from a webcam? Jepoy hits the nail on video quality.
How could you base your conclusions on a very blurry video of a webcam streamed from Yahoo! Messenger? The video probably was even recorded via manual screen captures or by a screen capturing program. Which means that every single pixel you record is based on the image displayed by the receiver’s video card.
Now, how the hell does a “very sophisticated” computer equipment analyze a video from this procedure? TELL ME. PLEASE. HOW? Spectral analysis on a blurry screen grab. WHAT THE F%$&?! -_-”

Then the video commentary continues by suggesting that because I commented to Jepoy that “We didn’t need sophisticated equipment - just a pair of eyes . . .” I was proving myself a liar. You see - they are clutching at straws.
I didn’t say that we didn’t have or didn’t use sophisticated equipment - my sarcasm was obviously lost on Jepoy - but what I meant was, that it was obvious - even to the naked eye - that it was a fake scar.
Neither Jepoy nor Noemi have seen the whole of the video - so are completely unqualified to comment on its content.

Lie No 6
“The question might pop up “Why did I go out of my way to do this interview? I am just a blogger”. I should mind my own business, right?”

Just what is your business? Real estate? Touting cheap web-hosting? Idle gossip? Chit-chat? So full of condescending self-importance. Deluded that you are famous because you are on the Internet. Defender of the Image of the Philippines. Defender of the Big Business.
Just a blogger - tsk, tsk.

Lie No 7
I have not accused your daughter Lauren of anything at all, merely stated the facts, that she removed my totally appropriate comment from her website.

Lie No 8
One of the subtitles tries to convey the idea that the hospital considered sending me the bill “too personal a matter.” This is a feeble attempt at explaining the delay in being contacted by the hospital. The “Doctor” on the very first day gave me a thorough briefing over the telephone about Mayen’s “condition” - the nurse I spoke to at the hospital managed to get confidential information from the accounts office and passed it on to me - the hospital itself did eventually send me a photo-copy of “a bill.” Where’s the consistency? Nowhere - it’s just an idea that is applied when it suits the purpose. Again - this excuse was never mentioned at the time - only as an afterthought - all the intensity was on getting the money from me - by any means possible.

Lie No 9
The hospital did not answer my emails at all - their first correspondence to me was the photo-copy of a bill on 21st August - 11 days later - only after I had badgered Sir Francis to get me information about the doctors - and he knew I was starting to spread my suspicions around in emails.

Lie No 10
If Sir Francis had all the hospital receipts - why the hell did he not send copies to me at the time? Oh yes - he may well produce something now - this is the first time this has ever been mentioned.

Lie No 11
“Her only lie was that she was going home to the province and visit her mom.”

Ok - she lied about being in the province straight after being “released” from hospital.
She lied when she denied having Herpes.
She lied about her father returning to Manila with her.
She lied about the SIM card in her phone.
She lied about not being in contact with Sir Francis.
These are only the lies that we have proved - how many others have there been?
It makes it really hard to believe anything.

Another quote from Noemi’s text:
Looking back, she reflects on Tim’s drastic changes. According to her, he is not the same person she knew in Manila. He was so nice and romantic to her. He was nice to her family and felt he accepted her family. She doesn’t know what she did wrong to deserve the distrust. “When he was here, I took care of him. I never stole money from him”.

No Mayen - you never had to steal from me - it was always there for the giving. That is how it is presented all along - I am expected to believe the myth of helpless poverty - money is squeezed out by suggestion - the merest, subtlest hints - very clever. You can always deny that there were any direct requests later.
This does not ever happen as early as this in normal relationships.
It was all about money, money, money.

To continue - a quote from Mayen:
The worst thing…are the bills, my family getting affected with the bills, my friends were affected, Francis, Tierra Maria (I love them). “I didn’t want them to happen. Painful. It was not my fault.”
“One question remains…what did I really do that this had to grow big? He never sent me anything …any single cent for me (for the hospital) Instead of helping me, believing me, saying he loved me, marry me, promised me this and that but none of that materialized…instead he humiliated me, criticized me…because I am poor. He knows I am poor.”

Again - expecting me to support the myth - poor, helpless Mayen - who was taken advantage of - yes? Is that the image you’re trying to paint? Mayen had absolutely no responsibility in this herself? Mayen who has more “street wisdom” & savvy than any other girl I know - should have insisted on protected sex, for a start - but despite the risk of me catching the STD from her, kept quiet for the sake of the scam.
Your friends were affected because they were all in on it - silently or actively taking part. Tierra Maria Estates were affected because Sir Francis corroborated the lies & they have a presence online which I could use - I had a lever - my blogs - to attempt to get to the truth - to prevent you all sliding away into the shadows.
I’ll tell you why it grew so big - months and months of ruthless deceit - the despicable emotional extortion was a total abuse of trust - a concerted effort - not just by you, but in league with others. An emotionally torturous rollercoaster - that normally is unreported. I was determined that I would expose this to try and warn others - in a very detailed way - precisely how evil it is.

The first attempts at the scam were a shambles - incompetent - either way.
The only convincing part should have been my emotional involvement - my blind love and trust - they were relying on that to do the work.
When that failed - and I became suspicious - all subsequent attempts at providing proof also
failed - because of the inappropriate way it was all handled.

“Mayen continued on to say that if she wanted to scam him, she would have done it while he was in the Philippines.”

How? By inflated hotel prices, taxi fares?
Can you prove that you didn’t?
But had I discovered it at the time - the prospect of a bigger scam would have been trashed.

“Then Mayen tells me . . . To tell you the truth, I really loved Tim. I am honest. My intention was pure. I was comfortable with him. I wanted to take care of him at his age now. For me, it doesn’t matter how old he is. What I feel for him , I loved him….it won’t go away but I need to move on.
It is painful. But I have to. It has a great lesson for me. What is love without trust?”

The answer to that last question is “Useless as a manipulative tool.”

This all just goes to show how carefully rehearsed and scripted this whole interview was. Saying exactly the right things - putting just the desired spin on everything - after all - the stage is yours Noemi - you have the technology, the blogging know-how to transmit your lies to the world.
Did Mayen show you the scar by the way?
Did she show you any of the bills from the hospital?
Did she show you any paperwork for the sale of the family property?
A receipt?
A medical certificate?
Any proof at all?
You’d better get to work then - forging, faking and falsifying.
Your audience awaits.

“Mayen then showed photos from her cellphone camera. Her friends took these photos during her hospitalization. I used my camera to take those photos because the infrared connection from her cellphone refused to work.”

Mayen tried to show me these photographs for the first time on January 12th 2008 - unsuccesfully during a webcam chat. No attempt had ever been made previously - why not? Come on - such an obvious thing to do - if these have been around since August - and yet never even mentioned before.
She told me that her sister had taken them in the hospital.
Strange to take a photograph of the bandage - unless it was to try to prove something - in which case - why didn’t they show me at the time?
Obviously, the digital embedded information in the photographs might make it awkward to transmit them digitally - revealing the date when they were taken. But I expect this information can probably be manipulated, eventually - by someone like Jepoy, for instance, so that the date reads August 2007.
I can’t explain Noemi’s tag on the bottom photograph that says 2007 - is she already trying to pull the wool?
Well we know the answer to that.
Is this circus of fiction being put on just for my benefit? How many people are actually interested?

“I had an ectopic pregnancy and I can prove it. The scar is true. The scar is with me , forever. …Painful. Whenever I take a bath, I see the scar. I can prove it to anybody, everyone and also to Tim. If only he went to the Philippines, there wouldn’t have been a problem.”

Except that I would have met a bunch of thugs - trying to “convince” me that it was all true.
Noemi didn’t ask her to reveal the scar again - but what would that have proved - it would have been set up in advance.
I expect photographs will soon appear though - expertly made up - looking exactly right - but they had better match what I have already been shown.

What is perfectly clear - is that the amount of effort being put into clearing Tierra Maria Estates name (not Mayen - she is just a pawn) - clearly demonstrates how much potential damage my writings are doing to the Big Business.

So - the picking and pecking continues - at the eye sockets of all the detail in my blog - like a flock of hungry, corrupt vultures.
They will eventually clean it to the bone and the sands of time will slowly drift over the corpse - and conceal it.

I have done all I can. I am in danger of being sucked back into a very volatile situation - because of my latent emotions.
Dangerous - because these people are dangerous, corrupt, bullying thugs - doing their best to re-establish themselves in their anonymous lairs, pirating the Internet from secret coves - from behind the colourful myth - the picture of sun, sea, coconuts and beautiful maidens - which they themselves defend and promote - to lure the unwary traveller on to their shores.

They will not stop - this is their livelyhood.
I am a persona-non-grata on the Internet - especially in the Philippines.
It seems that although another own-goal has been scored by the scammers, with these public lies - it is true - a door has slammed shut.
Because of a dawning realisation.
I can do no more - it is futile to seek support - the only people remotely interested - apart from myself - are those with a vested interest in seeing me disappear - who number quite a few.

So - my blogs will remain - and I know I’ve said this before but - goodbye.

To Mayen - my last word - I would have forgiven you and loved you forever - but we have no level ground that we are standing on - speaking the truth.
That is now impossible - I cannot trust you, your associates or the Philippines.

Goodbye.