This is a warning that I am posting on webmaster boards and industry sites about a model that I recently shot.
First, the picture... then the story.
Photo courtesy of Tippo Sesso
JEFFREY BELANGER,
aka "RYAN FOXXX", aka "RYAN REESE"
May 2007
Jeff/Ryan came to work for me at my webcam house, HotBoyHouse. When he arrived, he did not have the proper ID (he had a badly disfigured Military ID that did not show his birthday). He was not in the military himself, but his family was, so it was not the ID for being enlisted in the Service. As a second Id, he brought a BOOKING SHEET from the San Bernadino court where he was arrested and booked for using someone else's ATM and pin number. Regardless, I gave him a check for $20 to take to the DMV in order to get his Identification Card.
He disappeared shortly thereafter.
Some time later, I noticed small amounts being charged to my bank account via e-checks. I began disputing these charges and had no idea where they were coming from. Granted, I make a lot of charges on my card and have a little trouble keeping track, so it wasn't a big deal to me. the bank usally explains the disputed charges to me and more often than not they are made by me. Then there was the big charge: a $748.00 charge to Verizon.
I use AT&T Wireless... so that wasn't a charge made by me. After the Verizon charge, I noticed that there were many, many charges on my card for Amtrak. I pay for models travel a lot, and I use Amtrak quite frequently, but I had not been shooting at the time of the charges, so I called the bank again and explained all of my concerns. they told me that the person who made the charge for the Verizon phone was Jeffrey Belanger. Amtrak also gave the name of the passenger listed on the tickets as Jeffrey Belanger.
I disputed the charges, had to close my bank accounts and reopen them all over again... which was fairly difficult. If it had just been my credit cards, I could have cancelled them... but he was using my checking account routing number and account number to write fraudulent electronic checks!!! I called the police. They investigated and that's the last I had heard of it.
Some time later, I found out through another company that he had shot for them AND had a valid ID. I figured that since he had worked for Channel One Releasing and Tippo Sesso (two very reputable companies), that he had gotten his life on track and was on the straight and narrow. Against my better judgment, I figured that the kid was cute and he deserved a second chance. I flew him out to shoot again, planning to pay him in cash or cashier's check ONLY... no way was he getting my checking account info again!!!
As he was filling out paperwork for his shoot, I checked my bank account (as I do every morning). Lo and behold, there was a charge for Amtrak for $48.00. I figured it was for another model, Phillip Ashton, who I had brought down via train two weeks prior. I called Amtrak to verify and gave them my credit card number.
They told me that there were two reservations for Jeffrey Belanger, made on February 28th using my credit card number. And the address on the billing information was incorrect (he had used my old address, and he did not have the address of my new place).
I got him in the car, took him to the hotel, gathered the other models around as I showed him proof of his fraudulent transactions on my card (bank charges and reservation numbers linked to my credit card from Amtrak), them took him to the airport and dropped him off. And we filmed it as proof. The entire time I told him why I was cancelling his shoot and showing him the evidence against him, he would only say "ok" and "I understand."
DO NOT USE THIS KID unless you want him to empty out your bank accounts!!! He is crafty and shady AND a pathological liar. Those are a lot of accusations to throw around, but they are all true. AND he has been arrested and booked for this same crime before. I have a copy of the booking sheet!
So DO NOT USE HIM!!!!! he is a blight on our industry!!! Let my mistake be a lesson learned for everyone!
Rocky
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Originally Posted by Rob Ragan
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