Is this guy here?

Blak Shinobi · Apr 10, 2024

Lawfarin said: ↑

Didn’t know he was still making videos and people were still watching after the fraud stuff
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i guess the cancel culture didnt get the memo lol

Blak Shinobi · Apr 10, 2024

faawrenchbndr said: ↑

State Farm is the worst insurance company to have they suck balls
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yeah they're wonderful the first time around you need them , after that they start to clutch their purse , They show their true colors

Lawfarin · Apr 10, 2024

Blak Shinobi said: ↑

i guess the cancel culture didnt get the memo lol
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There was a lot of pissed off people here when that first went down. Not smart to basically film yourself committing a crime lol. I couldn’t care less though. That’s his business. Watched a couple of his videos, kinda cool

RushT · Apr 11, 2024

No clue myself, the truth is probably in the middle. But I do think that if a bunch of his calls came from AAA, he’d probably have been willing to eat some costs as that was what was helping drive his YouTube content. Cost of doing business to grow another revenue source.

No opinion myself on any fraud.

dlopan · Sep 21, 2024

Hogan1966[OP] said: ↑

And, this is Matt's long statement about the issue:

"This is probably not the correct platform to do this. But I would love to say something in my behalf to help you understand more fully what happened here.

As a AAA service provider, I actually enjoyed working for AAA until they outsource their payment department. The day that they did that, I never got paid correctly for any medium duty tow that I did. Not a single one. Vehicle tows from Zion national Park to Las Vegas were quite common, and it sure hurts to tow an RV that far and not get paid for it. AAA was shorting me on payments between $5,000 and $15,000 a month in the busy season. I brought this up with my field rep. We’ll call him Michael, on multiple occasions. We were really taking it in the shorts here. He told me that other rural AAA shops had creative ways to make sure they got paid. He was confident that I could come up with something too. Wink I could type pages of different scenarios and problems that we had and getting paid. But it all boils down to this… Never ever ever did I take a dollar that I did not earn. And I gave up thousands and thousands of dollars to AAA in non-payment.

This is next big moving piece, and I would call this the catalyst for the whole thing. To keep this coward anonymous, we will give him a fake name. Kyle Cruise is what we will call him. But I will just shorten it to KC for the rest of the story. KC spent the better half of a decade pretending to be my friend. One day his jealousy of my success became too much for him. He claimed that over half the people were watching my channel because of him, and he wanted 40% of the channel right off the top. He told me that if I didn’t give it to him, he would ruin me. He told me he had been collecting dirt on me for years, and that I would go to jail for insurance fraud. I did not take him seriously, I considered us to be good friends. In retrospect, I don’t know why I didn’t see through his deceit years ago. At any rate, I was blind to his malicious deceit, and I certainly knew that I was not committing fraud. I wasn’t worried one bit. Just hurt and confused that one of my best friends had turned so viciously on me. A few days later, I was handed a cease and desist letter by KC himself. He told me I would have to take him, his business, and any family members off from my channel and other social media platforms, or I could give him $40,000 Much to his dismay, I called his bluff. I had no idea that he had set me up. I could tell you that story, but it’s already getting too long.

Another piece to the story it was the fact that I did not keep records. A fact that KC new well. I had a notebook that I would scribble jobs in and then when they were complete I would throw the pages away. This made proving that I did the work very difficult. Because often the work was turned in on different days than the jobs were done. Over the course of the investigation, we would keep finding text messages to my drivers, photos that the drivers took, and other such proof of jobs. As these kept rolling in, my defense became more and more solidified. Sort of. Jobs that I did on one date but were turned in on another date is still considered insurance fraud. Even though the service happened, and the payment was correct. (I learned something)

Did I bend the rules? Yes. But I never bent any rules that hadn’t been bent by AAA I was completely open with my dispatch center and my area rep. My rep said he had my back when this started going down, but when the corporate part of AAA started getting close, he completely turned on me.

The investigator told me that he could pursue every single person that I had dealt with and charge them with Fraud also. Including KC’s friend that set me up. I opted to make a statement that every single person acted under my direction, and I would take full responsibility.

By the time it was over, it was obvious to the state that I had not done this for monetary gain or any sort of malicious fraud intent. I wasn’t even issued a fine. Think about that. AAA said they wanted money I couldn’t prove I earned. I said no problem. What’s one more month of getting ripped off by AAA?

Thanks to all of you that have supported me through this, and continue to support me and my team moving forward. This love and support has definitely been a strength I could draw from when needed.

Hopefully this helps some of you understand a little better. And those of you that already don’t like me, I do not expect this to change your opinion, and none of this was really directed at you anyway."
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I hate All insurance companies. They are all a ripoff. Every single one.

Captqc · Sep 21, 2024

Insurance companies are in the same category as lawyers as far as I’m concerned.

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