"gentle encouragement" and "assistance with sales efforts" are not ideas I have espoused. I think what I said is something to the effect that I haven't seen anything that I think will be successful yet but I have hope that something might come up. Also that I think trashing TATF is not a winning strategy.
dupedbysteve sure got some fast action. He talked to the TX AG office one day, they told him not to let Steve know who he was, he apparently did, and suddenly all the pieces fell into place. That took what - 3 weeks? and he got the price he wanted for his buyout. How long did it take you belmont? I thought you said years and a long succession of emails, late or missing payments, etc. Fast contact and quick payment do not sound like the Steve that I'm getting familiar with.
Steve must have a lot of faith in the power of the TX AG to get things done in Costa Rica. A lot more than I have.
This has the smell of a setup to me. (Of course, I see no reason not to pursue it). Does anyone know who duped is or know that he owned trees? He refused to tell anyone but Steve. We have no proof that he even had contact with the Texas AG, let alone Steve. What will happen if we believe him? 1000 people call on their AGs to investigate TATF and hope to turn that into instant cash. If Steve was too busy before, now he will see what busy is like. If he had no money before, that will pale in comparison to buying off everyone with an AG and an e-mail account.
I don't buy it, but I shot an e-mail to the Texas AG's office to see if they ever would do something like pursuing investment fraud by people based in other countries.
Didn't somebody else send them an e-mail besides duped a while back? I confess I have no time to go look through posts
