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Now lets get to the Timeshare Side. Relating to the articles on this site. Despite there being Three pages of postings. The same people have repeated postings. Leaving a handful of people with claims. Not thousands of claims as suggested by the rip of team of Angela Rivera and the New York self processed con man What is not noted are the numerous people who did get good holidays at very discounted prices. As Mark Anthony said, the bad that people do with live after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. I will start at the beginning and you will see where this had gone wrong. There are two factors to this. I worked at Mystic Timeshare Resort for a number of years and was one of their top sellers with over a million dollars of sales a year. Being successful at what I did, I won numerous awards and accolades. I won multiple Certificates for a week's accommodation in Timeshare Resorts regularly. With these there are a significant number of people out there who benefitted from using these and I always had a stack of them. Despite getting a weeks accommodation, there was a fee that had to be paid to contribute towards the costs depending on the size which was still only a few hundred dollars. At one time one of my Customers was arranging a trip for a Baseball Team and I said I would help him out as there were many kids involved by letting him use a whole batch of my Certificates I will use to get his accommodation when it came to the time he needed to book. I started to receive correspondence from a Lady whose name is Campbell. She initially enquired about one of my Bookings. I told her where I worked and what I did. One day at work I was called to the reception where she was on the phone and told me she had made several bookings at Mystic Dunes and could I check on them for her. She gave me the names and when they were looked up although a number of the Bookings were there. None of them had actually been paid for and the guests were expected to pay on arrival. I advised her of this and she went on to claim that she had booked with a specific Rental Company located in Celebration and had paid for the bookings. Although there was a holiday company attached to these bookings she had given me a name of a person and with that was able to track down an address in Celebration and said I would go on her behalf to this address to see what was happening. This did not pan out as the people I saw had no idea who she was. Believing she had been scammed out of her money and on telling me she had a similar arrangement with the Wyndham Group where she could get these weeks at basically the same price I got my Certificates for it was suggested that she could use the Certificates I had for the bookings she had at Mystic, and when it came to booking the Baseball group she would get the Wyndhams for me for them. Shortly after that I was called into the office by my Boss as they had received an email from her stating she had booked several weeks up at Mystic through me and concerned I had not done the bookings!!!! Thankfully I was able to go on to the internet in and pull up the correspondence from her where she was claiming to me she had made these bookings via a third party, not me, and although we had talks on exchanging my Certificates for her Wyndhams nothing had been confirmed. After that I spoke back with her and it was said to be a misunderstanding and we were to go back to the original plan to exchange her upcoming bookings a Mystic with the Baseball Team. She also claimed she had more bookings ahead for Mystic and we would just use it as a swap. Finally we got the Dates for the Baseball Team, and they paid me the funds for the Bookings which was basically a few hundred dollars for each which was the price needed to contribute to the Certificates for those Bookings. As the time got nearer and I had confirmed dates from him, I started to send her the dates. I was asked to let her know how many was in each unit, their lead name etc. It transpired that some of them needed one extra night and it was confirmed that would not be a problem as Wyndham allows to book by the night with her arrangements. As the time drew near I had taken all the money for these bookings and confirmed the Wyndham be where they would stay based on her agreement. She said I would get the booking confirmations and was finally told they had been secured but I had to wait for the Confirmations. I had been asked a question by Dave the Leader of the group about check ins and as theycould not get hold of her I called the Wyndham myself, not my Daughter as she claims. I was told that although these bookings were on hold by a third party travel Company they had been canceled. It scared the living day lights out of me as we were only days away and as the Baseball games were being held in that area, it was virtually impossible to get accommodation. I called her and she claimed she had been let down by the people she booked with. I have to admit, having experienced this myself I believed her, but don't worry she will make sure I get the bookings. As this was all happening out of the Blue I got a call from the Company she claimed had let her down and they advised she had booked with them, but had never paid for the Bookings and she had done this several times before with them and I could book directly with them if I wanted to. However, the cost they gave me to book would have been at least three times more than what I had received in payment from the group and I simply did not have that kind of immediate funds. I was backed into a corner, with people expecting accommodation I had promised, and the funds had from them in total would have only covered one or two rooms at the rate I was seeing. Finally at the very last minute believe it was the night before they arrived, David had called me to say one of his party had called and there was no booking for him, I called her where upon she assured me she had things on hold there and I would receiving the confirmations but she needed the head name of each party. I believed this was a reasonable explanation either way I had no choice and was in a total panic. She then advised she had managed to fit these people in, but instead of being able to book a week and an extra day. I was told she had to book two weeks to cover each of the bookings that were 8 nights. On top of this as she could only get arrivals on a Certain nights, other ones which started on the Saturday, she could only get Friday to Friday and as such needed to have two weeks of bookings, leaving the several rooms empty for the balance of the six days. As this was the day before, and he had people already travelling I had to accept this in the belief that I would have to use several more of my certificates for her bookings but at least these people were booked. I called the Wyndham myself, as one of the guests was already there and the woman was helpful, said the bookings had just appeared and I said to use Dave's name as lead on them all. My panic was over, until I next got an email from her stating that I would have to now pay her for all these weeks. Which was contrary to our original agreement of exchange of bookings. In addition to which, not only were a number of these bookings now doubled up costing twice the price, the rate she quoted was way in excess of the cost it would have cost to cover the contribution to my Certificates which is basically all I had charged Dave for in the first place. I said that I had thought we were exchanging Certificates and she then claimed she would not be needing my certificates as she had moved all her bookings from Mystic to her other Resorts!! Thus leaving me now in a situation where I could have originally used my own certificates to these bookings from the very beginning. But as the time grew near I would not have been able to use them leaving me now owing her nearly two to three times more than I had been paid by Dave for these bookings!!. I simply did not have those funds immediately to hand, and this was followed by various correspondence between us when I did make promises to pay her I will be completely honest about that. In the meantime, I then started getting some calls from angry people that had called my work to track me down, to say they had weeks at Mystic Dunes which is where they wanted to stay and found their bookings were not there. Or they had to pay when they got there. I found these were ones originally on her list. This did not put me in a very good light at work and these people were now making claims that I had scammed them!!!!! I called her to say lets exchange these bookings for ones against the money I owe you, only to be told she had booked them elsewhere. When I got back to the people that had called me, they were very angry with me stating that they had been told the bookings were done through me and paid for to me!!! and I had let them down and they were now going to Resorts they were not altogether happy with and it was my fault!!! At that stage I was now left with an excessive Bill from her and several people believing I had scammed them. At that stage, yes my health had got bad which I think all the worry probably contributed to. I also was trying to find ways to pay her and due to other situations which I will explain in the next report, you will see why this was the case. I then received a call from the Company she claimed she made the original bookings with, as they were now getting angry calls from people saying their booking was with them. They advised she had made the bookings originally with them, but never paid for and then they were told, these bookings had been swapped over to me as she had made an arrangement with me to exchange bookings with her!!!! They said I should not pay her the amount and insist that either she continues to go back to swapping my Certificates or reduces what is owed it appears like them, and also the other company she had originally booked the Wyndham bookings with, she had put them in a position where they had made bookings for her and lost out. At that stage I had got quite sick and yes, the crap that was spread about me, I had got breast cancer which came with other complications. I was going through treatment which was also costing a lot of money. Although I was initially working still at Mystic. At that stage also having been one of their top sellers, and one of the well respected members, now with all these calls from people claiming I had made bookings at this did not go down too well. I had been there several years without a blemish to my name. Now my reputation was faltering. I also had bookings with people who had paid me through paypal, some of which you have seen on this site. I had given her my paypal address as she sent me an invoice to pay through this but due to advice from this other Company and the virtue fact that although I did owe her this money, I did not have all the funds yet they said I should not pay it all. Through various talks we had with this Campbell Lady in the past, we would talk about my autistic grandson and we had laughed that I used his name for most of my log ins in a previous conversations. Then one day, I went to pay for one of the bookings I had made for someone at the Marriott in Hawaii, I was then told the funds were not available. When I logged in to pay pal, there was a very large transaction of thousands of dollars that had been made tfrom my account into her bank bank account even in excess of what I had owed her. I called Paypal and said I did not do this transaction I did not even know her Bank account information. They traced back the origination of who had logged into my account to do this and it was from her location. They filed a report and said they would eventually get the money back in to my account. However, they froze the money that was sitting in there, which meant the bookings that were being held for was sittng in a frozen account. My Bank account was also frozen as it was linked to the paypal account. If anyone wants to track back down paypal to that time they will confirm this action. Unfortunately people I had bookings that needed to be paid for, was unable to do as the account was frozen. At this time, I was also going through hospital treatment both with my breast, and yes it had affected my lungs and then I was rushed into hospital to have my gallbladder removed. At this time I was on sick leave from Mystic and they had received regular updated reports from my Doctor which detailed my ion and treatment. I am sure if there is to be any investigation this will be confirmed. It was not a story made up. Due to my illness, and also been pursued by the family of my ex Husband who had now also hacked into my personal info as they had heard I was now with Thomas and vowed to make trouble for us both I decided it was time to go back to my family in UK leaving Thomas behind so they would not come after him. Once back in the UK I was still trying to get resolved, eventually Paypal was instructed that once the account is unfrozen and the money back in the account they were to repay the people that had paid their money. At this stage a number had already lost their bookings and my accounts remained frozen as these people were making claims on pay pal and my bank account to get their back which was quite understandable. It also included peopIe I was not even aware of where certain parties who had my personal information was using this to their advantage. I did get some calls from people who got their money back and were understanding of my situation. I had thought that everyone had got their money back and it was only when I spoke to Mr. Coates who claimed he did not get his I immediately sent him his money back. As I was advised by authorities not to go onto these Forums especially as there was also certain people connected to my ex Husband who was posting negative things about me and my family which were untrue I had not looked at this until yesterday. That is when I have seen these people for the first time. As I am not sure who is legitimate, and which are actually false claims and I have been liaising with the the Orange County Sheriffs Department. They advised that after paying Mr Coates and with the proof they had seen in text messages on my phone and phone messages left that I am the present victim of two parties trying to extort money from me using the claims of this scam offering me protection from everyone if I paid them. The Sheriff said all matters to do with money in this instance are a civil matter and as this all happened a few years ago when a claim is made that people are owed money I should ask them to prove their claim before paying them. As due to this con duo they may make falsified parties to extort money from me. At this stage if you did not get your money back through paypal or the Bank, as it appears there are still a couple people still making claims. please put this in writing to me as you now have all my information as this con pair made sure everyone has in their attempt to extort money from me in return for their protection to ensure no one bothers me. I want people with genuine claims to bother me. Like Mr Coates who I immediately paid back once I knew. If there are any people that did not get refunded and are genuine, please contact me. It is not your fault that I got caught up in this horrible mess caught when I first got involved with the Campbell Lady. It is also not fair that anyone that was victim to identity theft from my ex in laws should lose out. Now perhaps you know what really happened you will understand I am not the scam artist or fraudster I am portrayed as with regard to these handful of bookings that did not get their holiday. This has been blown way out of proportion as there are certain parties ensuring it does. It started out with a decent intent to help a baseball party with a group of children to save money on their trip and my attempt to help out this Lady who contacted me initially with claims that she had been scammed by other parties, only to find out this is a tract record she held and put me in a very venerable position which I could not back out of. If I had continued to use my Certificates of this would have been avoided. Therefore, I await from anyone with a genuine outstanding claim to contact me to get this resolved.