Laura, the person who scammed the OP is not Kristen Pineda. This is a
Posted By: Administrator sm on 2006-05-08
In Reply to: I have emailed you and have more info. - sm - Laura E.
completely different person altogether. We are dealing with the situation from this end. Thank you.
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To Everyone Scammed by Kristen Pineda - sm
You need to contact Detective Joe Rodriguez at the Frederick Police Department, 580-335-2301. He is VERY familiar with her and he is very anxious to hear from everybody who has been scammed by her. She just got out of jail not too long ago for this same thing - WE NEED TO STOP HER!!! This is a real hick town (kind of reminded me of the Andy Griffith Show) and everybody knows everybody's business and EVERYBODY at the police department knows Ms. Pineda. PLEASE CALL THEM NOW!
Kristen Pineda
My name is Sgt Trim I work for the Frederick Police Department. Just to let you know that we are still getting reports related to Kristen Pineda. We have worked numerous cases on her and will continue to do so. If you feel that you have been taken by her please contact our Dept. Most of the victims who have filed reports have gotten their money back. Frederick is in fact a small town but we are not hicks. We have made it possible for many of her victims to get their money back. You can contact me at 580-335-7503.
Kristen Pineda scams
Kristen has been operating on a Rick Pineda ebay account. Someone has to stop her, she has bilked myself and anther gentleman out of money also. The local police know her well. She must think she is to smart for anyone to figure out how to stop her. The Oklahoma Attorney General may have to jump in and get involved and lets get her in jail where she belongs.
Lets start here:
Oklahoma
US v. Lansford
On January 19, 2000, Christine Lansford was indicted in the United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma, on 14 counts of mail fraud for allegedly offering Beanie Babies on Internet auction web sites, accepting payment and failing to deliver the goods. Lansford allegedly used numerous aliases to perpetrate her scheme.
This case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service, Fort Worth Division, and prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Contact:
Joe Heaton, Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Oklahoma, 405/553-8772
C phone SCAM - Kristen Pineda strikes again!
Contact me - I'll tell you what you need to do. SHE DOES THIS ALL THE TIME!!!!!
Enough about Kristen Pineda and all her aliases. We remove posts as we see them, but
this person uses aliases, different email addresses, and IP addresses. WE DO WATCH. If you were taken by this person, deal with the authorities.
Pineda
Go to your local police station and file a report with them. After you do that, call the Frederick Police Department and file a report with them. If she has scammed you, don't wait for your equipment. She DOES NOT have any equipment. The Police Departments phone number is 580-335-7503 or 580-335-7504. Fax number is 580-335-2301. Sgt. Joe Rodriguez is on Military Leave in Iraq, but any officer will be able to help you. Hope this helps.....
Is there anything I can do? Scammed..
I bought a footpedal from someone on here when I posted on the equipment board that I was looking to purchase one. She seemed very sincere and I sent her my money order. She said she sent it out over two weeks ago. I've tried contacting her numerous times and now I can't seem to get in touch with her. Is there anything I can do? I thought about contacting the police in her area to see if there is anything I can do. I just want my money back or my foot pedal. Anyone have any ideas?
P.S. I just posted a new message on the equipment board to look for a new foot pedal. Although this time I'll be more careful.
RE: Is there anything I can do? Scammed
Notify the administrator of this site, and let her know all the particulars, so this person cannot advertise here anymore, and see if maybe she can offer you more advice.
Scammed by K.P.
Just reading some posts and noticed a couple below about being scammed on some equipment. I bought a Lanier unit a while back from an ad on MT Stars by someone with the initials K.P. also who was from Oklahoma. I sent the person $400 and never received the equipment. Was told several times it was shipped (insured), then told it was found in the trunk of her Mom's car and never shipped, then it was shipped again but still never received and was sent (uninsured) and lost by the US mail. Was told she had a sick daughter with leukemia and did not have time to reseach the problem right then. Finally, I threatened to take legal action and got a check in the mail, WHICH BOUNCED! Was then told by her that she was going through a divorce and her husband wiped her out of everything. Please e-mail me with her full name. I would like to see if the K.P. I have delt with in the past is the same K.P. you guys are having trouble with now. Thanks!
Scammed By KP
MH - your e-mail address is invalid that you provided earlier - please update. I have information regarding KP in Oklahoma that I would like to send to you. There is a detective at the local police station that there would like you to contact him regarding the equpiment you never received. I just called him earlier and he is going to help get me my $300 back.
Scammed as well...sm
After reading many of the details regarding how everyone was scammed, it is sounding like the same person using different names. I was scammed by a lady from Woodville, Texas with the initials DS about a year ago. She had a laptop with many extras. Received only half of what was advertised. Had to send many e-mails. Told by daughter that mom was very ill with cancer and ended up in the hospital. Finally did get the rest of the things but computer was three years old and not 8 months old and no longer had a warranty like I had been told. It was worth about half of what I paid. I was then told the mother died. I did contact the police in Woodville and they said the address I gave them sounded like a campground and that they had a lot of transients that came through there.
Makes me wonder if this could be the same person just traveling in the Texas/Oklahoma area.
I was scammed by someone on this board with the initials K.P. `sm`
I purchased a c-phone from someone named Kristen in Oklahoma. She gave me a similar story. First she mailed it, then she lost the receipt for the post office, then her grandmother died, then her daughter had cancer and then her husband left her. I paid her $225. My computer crashed and I had to buy a new one so I lost some of the information regarding this but my old computer is now fixed and I have most of the emails that she sent me and that I sent her. I also have my copy of my priority mail slip and money order that I sent her. Besides scamming people out of money, isn't she doing something illegal because she is using the U.S. mail to do it? I was going to just let it go but now reading these posts that she is still doing it and that she is such a liar and crook, it makes me want to pursue it especially when I work my butt off for my money.
Kristen
Since it seems as though you work for Instant Text in some capacity, can you tell me if there is a free trial available, or if there is a time period for return of the product?
I'm considering it, but I hate to pay that much without seeing if I can get the hang of it.
Thanks!
Not Kristen here, but
When I purchased IT, there was no free trial download, but they did allow returns within 30 days. I still have the program, but have not been using it because of a glitch that IT tech support apparently was unable to figure out. I e-mailed Kristen and called her, as well as e-mailing tech support (I had sent one e-mail prior to calling, then e-mailed one of the glossaries to both her and tech support per her instructions. I do not like to bug people, so waited a couple of weeks before contacting her again, only to have her tell me they did not get my e-mails . . . why did she not contact me, I wondered, having already spoken with me and being aware of my problem???)
It seems that they were baffled by the glitch, and I have gotten no help from them at all. The glitch is that I had created several glossaries for different docs, and when I would choose a short, letters would be sometimes added in and other times missing from the expansion IT produced, although in looking at the entry in the glossary the entry had been made correctly in all cases. I never had time to try and figure it out, but the program was just slowing me down because I would have to go back and fix the error it had created, so I wound up having to set the program aside and have not gone back to it still. I am really disappointed, because I was so excited about getting IT and thought that it would be so great, and I really don't have $200 to burn, but so far it looks like that's what I've done. For the cost of the program, I really would have expected a little more from their tech support (who, by the way, NEVER contacted me at all after my e-mails and phone calls to Kristen . . . so, I guess I would have expected a little more than NOTHING from them.)
I've not heard of anyone else with this problem. However, at the time, I had just bought my computer, and had experienced no problems other than with IT, and still using the same computer with no problems.
Question for Kristen...
Thank you so much for the "heads-up" on ScriptWave.....have a phone conference on Monday with them.....Does ScriptWave work with satellite connection? Thanks so much!!!
E-mail me - I can steer you in the right direction to get your money back from Ms. Pineda.
BTDT.
No e-mail addresses posted, please. Goldbird
Kristen, you've got at least 3 people on this board
that say you've scammed them. Are all three people liars??? It's not that hard to do a criminal background check on you now that we have your name. And it would not be hard to obtain your SS# after that either to find out what other states you've done this in.
They're out there not using that name, too. Run an ad for MTs from Az., I think, signs it Kristen
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what Laura E. does is correct...sm
Monitors burn out every couple of years so turning off the monitor is essential......*S* Other than that, I leave the MQ computer on 24/7/365 turning the monitor off at night.
Laura, Don't Give Up!
Laura E, you feel strongly and you represent so many women in America -- but we don't understand you! Your argument on a logical level is HIGHLY ILLOGICAL, and therefore it does not hold water. Make it hold water! Come back and explain, please please please! Don't just say (in effect), Well that's what I think, so there. Not good enough and it makes your words be just so many grains of sand. Pull together a LOGICAL argument and turn your stance into something concrete, if you are able. Otherwise, your opinion -- and the opinions of millions of women just like you -- is nothing more than a that: a wispy, vacuous opinion, and you have not convinced a single person that your viewpoint is correct because it is logical. It is not.
Most definitely LAURA BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nm
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Laura w/drunk huby
 Get a voice activated one,keep it in a central spot where he's usually starting his crap. My ex had total amnesia the next day after his drunken rants...one night, he got so vicious, he started spewing how he was going to kill me..a long slow death...my DD had the wisdom to turn the recorder on...he never touched me, but I got us OUT before he could...That tape sealed my case on domestic violence charge AND the subsequent divorce....you could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom. Again, did not touch me "that night" but it was his thought that counted, against him LOL
Hey Laura - I live in Mechanicsville -
Didn't realize there were others on this board from my neck of the woods. Maybe we should start a dinner club for MTs?
Oh Laura - sorry to hear about your daughter....sm
I am glad that you got to make this special trip and know the memories will last all of your lifetime.
I agree with above, Laura's statement
I believe Edix at one time allowed their employees to stop early if they achieved their required line counts for the day. At least that is what I was told. It depends on the company. It's kind of crazy mentality to think you're "stealing" from the company if they require you to be on for 8 hours after you've achieved maximum lines for the day only to find out after the 6th hour there is no work available at all on any accounts! Stealing?? NOT!
So funny, Laura! Me, too, I wish I was back
in the 160s to 180s in weight!!! My IQ is probably going down, while my weight takes up the #s slack!! 
Laura's must be -20 cuz she married that stupid GW
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Gloria by Laura Brannigan.
I work for the person. I know. Very excellent person, personally and business-sense.
It is an INSULT to have QA hovering over seasoned MTs who know what they are doing. She trusts her MTs and again if there are questions there is one person, a trainer, who can answer them via phone, e-mail or instant message or you can send the whole report to them if you choose.
are you the same Laura E who did not even make 12k last year? That doesn't
sound like plenty of work. It sounds like PT and that does not mean that there is enough for FT.
Thanks Laura. I didn't seem my first open casket until
I was in my mid 20's and I just about passed out. I had never been to one. Although I respect and understand other religions and rituals, my husband is not a practicing Catholic and feels the same way that I do.
I appreciate your input. It's a tough decision.
No, Laura. That's not true. I did research the woman. I believe
even you and I talked about her. And, the person who has not yet shipped the footpedal is not Kristen Pineda. It is someone else from a completely different state. I have contacted the seller and let her know that she has 3 days to ship the pedal or I would file a police report myself as well as take legal action against her for conducting fraud on the MTStars website.
Laura Bush. Not to start an argument, LOL, I really do. nm
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Laura=nice lady but seems so nebish-like..nm
I like Laura Bush, She has alot of class.
If we want to get personal about the husband situation, then I mean come on, who can forget all of Bill Clintion's antics?? Ole' Hillary stayed w' him just to further her career. To me personally, When I look at the current Bushs I can see they they like each other, even DARE I DAY IT< LOVE each other. With the Clinton's all you got was cold air from Hillary, but then again who can blame her? But she is the one who stayed......so I don't feel bad for her at all.
THESE ARE JUST MY OPINIONS!!!!!! Everyone have a wonderful day!!!!
Point was is the person willing to make up for the slack of the person who types 1 job when there is
if that is all they WANT to type. Is the person who wants to be a supervisor willing to make up for those people?
You have crap supervisors, editors and mts in the business like you have good ones. Sadly, the really good ones of all of them are few and far between.
CONGRATS to Laura M. of Jeffersonville, PA & Beth R. of Yorktown, VA
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CONGRATS to Laura M. of Jeffersonville, PA & Beth R. of Yorktown, VA
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Laura Bush, Judge Judy, Mariska Hargitay (from L&O SVU)
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CONGRATULATIONS! Laura F. of NY on winning a $10.00 gift cert. to TVPS!
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Anyone know of online production seminars for WP like Laura Bryan offers
for Word? I have only used Word before, now new company requires WP. Just feel like I'm grinding gears trying to get used to this. I would like to start with the basics. Thanks.
When you have a QA person that is picky and another QA person that is very lenient where does that
leave the MTs because some are getting a lenient reviewer and others are getting one that picks at everything. How do you reconcile that issue with the difference in QA mentality. Some people make out well and the other people could be just as good but dont. I wonder about that.
The person MTSO pays is the person who
dsf
One person's "custom" is another person's
"house arrest". I'd never go to the Middle East because of how they treat women. I don't agree with their laws or "justice" system. For example, the woman who was gang raped as punishment for the actions of her 12-year-old brother, a boy who wasn't even an adult. How's that for a "custom"? Let's not forget bride burning. Burqas.
Besides, foreigners don't follow our "customs" when they come to this country. Half of them don't even bother learning English. Instead, we're expected to pay for healthcare and foodstamps for illegals and print everything in Spanish.
I won't be oppressed or treated as a second class citizen, and I wouldn't treat others like that either. A "custom" is more like putting up a Christmas tree, not being abused based on your gender.
i'm sure it will vary from person to person.
I recently did the same thing and am loving it! The freedom from time clocks, the better company, make losing the benefits well worth it to me. You need to set up a plan to have $ set aside for taxes though. I should have done this years ago!
Wrong person. I'm not the person you were
any money. You have a sucky attitude, a "poor me" attitude. Get off your lazy whiny a$$ and work instead of complaining and you will make money. I have one account at 10.5 cpl, two at 14 cpl and one at 15 cpl. I make a lot of money, even on the 10.5 cpl. But I'm not sitting around whining either. And I didn't whine when I made $6 an hour.
The one person I know who his doing VR....
isn't filling in words, she's having to reconfigure and restructure to the entire report, to the point it would be much easier and faster to just transcribe it. And over several months' time, it hasn't gotten one iota better. I'll believe the "fill in the word" editing when I see it.
like the person below said------
no friend of medical transcriptionists for one thing
and when I met her my only thought was well that must have been
the personification of Marian the Librarian.
I would have thought she'd have retired to a garden pruning weeds by now and gotten her extremism out of our lives. But no such luck.
This person cannot
do anything unless he has a document that was signed by your daughter indicating that he loaned her money using the motorcycle as collateral. To get this person to leave you alone, you may want to have an attorney give this person a call to pose this question (regarding signed doc). I have had a situation occur, not necessarily like yours, but I needed an attorney to write a letter in order to cease the situation and the attorney only charged my $50. The letter took care of the problem.
This person (Taz) is
a perfect example of what I just stated. This world is going to hell in an elaborately decorated hand basket.
So one person (YOU) is MOST MT's?
I make more than you do anyway and I left MT so LOL yourself and good luck finding a job in 5-10 years when this one goes the way of the mule skinner.
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