Circling the Wagons?

Neighborhood Dot reports on CI this morning that the Serins seem not to be out completely. The cars are still there, as is Steve's motorcycle. However, the Miata convertible that some haterz believe to be Steve's is no in the driveway up on jacks, with bricks to block the thing from rolling. The motorcycle blocks access towards the front of the house. The Nissan blocks the side.

Seems that they are circling wagons and trying to make it difficult to remove them, or even to approach. How this is going to help against an armed Sheriff's deputy (who knows, maybe even AngelTits' husband???) handing them an eviction notice and telling them they have 24 hours is unclear.

In the meantime, Casey has followed up on the removal of the Island2012 website by removing the serin.us website as well. In the past it was a redirect from his Iamfightingforeclosure (IAFF2) site. All the content, including a classic "bankruptcy is beautiful" post, is now gone. Perhaps a response to the fact that he fought foreclosure and apparently lost.

But none of this should be a surprise. In the past, Casey's standard mode of operation has been to have a lame idea, throw up a website promoting it, dick around for months by going off on ridiculous tangents like trying to avoid foreclosure by drinking fresh juice or cleansing his colon, then realize at the last minute that a wave was crashing in on him, skip town, and quietly remove any of the websites, pictures and other evidence from the web, while whining about needing privacy. Once again, he found a lame idea (mortgage elimination/foreclosure avoidance), tried to portray himself as an expert, failed miserably, and is slinking away.

The difference, this time, is that his lame idea has cost his family their house. They could have kept it, had they not failed to follow through on the terms of their bankruptcy. Now they have both a bankruptcy and a foreclosure on their credit records, and if they aren't out of there fast, they may yet have an eviction recorded against them soon enough. That latter one will make it virtually impossible for them to ever rent a place.

Perhaps Casey isn't going to be the first of the Serins to live in a van by the river?

And that's the way it is here at FalseCasey HQ, where the sun is shining bright.

We Won! We Won!

Not to rain on the parade following this week's foreclosure sale and the events that have followed, but though all the celebration amongst haterz™ today, we're reminded of Chris Rock's reaction after OJ was acquitted and thousands of African Americans chose to celebrate in the streets, shouting "we won!"

"What did we win?"

As reported on CI this morning by "neighborhood dot," it seems that the rented Budget truck was outside along with an SUV, dad's pickup and -- inexplicably -- a couple of convertibles.

Yes, the Serin Crime Family have been evicted from their home. Casey bears much of the blame for that, both by convincing his parent's to guarantee much of his recent debt, and then by convincing him to follow all his "mortgage elimination" crap, file multiple bankruptcies, try to transfer the house into his name, and engage in all sorts of other actions of dubious benefit and questionable legality. It must be remembered that when they first filed for bankruptcy, the parents were offered a pretty sweet Chapter 13 repayment plan that wiped out all the rest of their debt, left them in the house and set them up with a monthly payment that their salaries could afford, especially if they had some contribution from Steve. But they couldn't bother with that. They continued to not pay, to sit in the house, and to file again, and again, and again.

We were convinced they would file again to delay things further. After all, the parents filed. Then mom filed independently, and subsequently the interest in the property was (illegally) transfered to Casey who filed chapter 7 himself. It seemed that Papa Serin could still file on his own to delay one more time, but for whatever reason he failed to. Maybe he was just fed up. Maybe Casey was bored. Or maybe the odd dismissal of Casey's bankruptcy for reasons unknown put them on warning that there were possible consequences to the continuing fraud.

In fact, we have to wonder if the odd dismissal of Casey's bankruptcy also explains his sudden disappearance, apparently to live in a Jamaican shithole as we mentioned earlier this week.

And that brings us back to the question: "What did we win?"

We're not sure.

Certainly, there is some pleasure in seeing the Serins punished for their apparently endless support of their son long beyond the point where it was obvious to everybody with a brain that his activities were at the very least questionable, if not actually illegal. And it's hard to find a problem with kicking them out after they troubled the bankruptcy trustee to come up with an equitable settlement, then failed to make a single payment.

But through this all, Casey was still not punished. The haterz™ may have won a small battle, but we haven't really won.

Casey, as far as we know from his Facebook posts, remains a free man-boi in Jamaica. He hasn't been forced to admit his failure, or to be punished for it. True, he's living in a shithole while masquerading as being an island entrepreneur and has no home to come back to. He may be forced to become a drug mule to escape and his life is likely to remain miserable by any normal standard. But as we've often noted, he doesn't live by normal standards. He's gone to Jamaica without paying for it and the haterz™ have not, therefore he's superior in his mind and will continue to be so.

That ends up being the most frustrating thing about this saga. It's hard to declare victory over somebody who can't acknowledge how pathetic and miserable he's become. We may have won. By any normal standard, we won long ago, but somehow Casey isn't defeated. We await that.

And that's the way things are here at FalseCasey HQ, where we can't be foreclosed on because we don't own the place and we pay the rent every month.

Serin Crime Family lose their home!

In a shocking development today, the Serin Crime Family's home was auctioned off in a foreclosure proceeding. It was sold to a "third party" for the princely sum of $118639.01.

It's not clear yet who bought it, and there is already some suspicion that at such a low price, it may have been a family member or relative who picked it up, effectively killing off the family's debt. We will know rather quickly whether the Serins need to be out in three days or not.

Compounding the suspicion that this is the end is the fact that Casey got the hell out of Dodge just before it happened. We should remember that Casey had staked his reputation with the Crime Family on his ability to save the house. He failed. Now, if his Facebook wall is to be believed, he has disappeared to an off-the-beaten path location in Jamaica, staying with a guy in a "Paradise Villa" that on closer inspection seems to be what in Jamaica probably passes for a cheap tract home in an undistinguished location high in the hills and away from anything a tourist would want to do. (Look at the last picture in particular.)

In considering this, it's worth remembering that in the past when Casey took off for parts unknown, it was always in response to some impending disaster like his wife leaving him, or somebody suing, or any other demand being made. We think it's quite possible that rather than sitting his parents down and telling them that the gig was up, there were no more delays possible and the house was toast, Casey chose to just leave and not tell them anything. The first news that they may have received to suggest that anything was wrong may well have been posted on their door in the past few days.

In the meantime, Casey's ex-friend and native Jamaican Nigel Swaby reminds us that the place Casey has gone is a "shithole." As was the case with his sojourn into the woods, we believe Casey will find his "Island Paradise" to be not quite what he expected. Some have suggested that his only escape may be as a drug mule, though it remains to be seen what he will escape to, given that the family home may be gone and his parents could very well find themselves sleeping on various relatives' sofas.

Finally, as far as island paradises go, we should also note that the Island2012.com website has been shut down for unknown reasons, possibly including the fact that there is no chance whatsoever of Casey ever owning an Island, let alone next year.

And that's the way things are at FalseCasey HQ, where the only island we're concerned with right now is at the mouth of the Hudson.

Well, there's really not much to say

Casey continues to be Casey.

His parents still have their house, and he has so far managed to file bankruptcy for the pair of them, who then immediately welched on their Chapter 13 payment plan; then for his mom individually, which was dismissed; then personally under Chapter 7, which was also dismissed.

The latter was kind of weird. He transfered the house to his name using a quit-claim deed, then halted the foreclosure sale by filing bankruptcy himself. No matter that they didn't have the right to transfer title without the approval of the lender, the delay tactic still worked.

He's no longer living at home though. He's squatting at some other house whose owner is pulling the same sort of shit taking Casey's advice. Where they all go next is anybody's guess.

In any case, the next trustee sale is due on April 12th. As of yet, dad has not filed individually. Expect that to happen shortly.

In other news, Casey claims to be engaged to some mentally-defective individual, and further claims that they will be leaving California. We hope this will involve a trip to a Federal lockup in another state, but that's probably not his plan.

Realistically, there's just not much out there. For the first time in years, Casey is keeping a fairly low profile. We continue to watch. We have patience.

And that's the way things are at FalseCasey HQ, where there's a cat asleep on the desk.

Some Mark Villasenor Archeology

Well, there's not much to say about Casey right now, except that once again the house is up for auction and there doesn't seem to be much that his mortgage eliminating scams can do about it. We'll have more about that after the auction that is scheduled tomorrow. Our friend James Marks has commented about it on his blog and we have little more to say.

But there's been some discussion of long-departed Mark Villasenor, aka LossMitPro, on the Campidiot Thread, and we thought we'd toss some extra information out there about his vexatious litigating ways.

As discussed in the thread, Mark at one point actually sued a nonprofit volunteer organization for violating his civil rights. It seems that the Stanislaus Wilderness Volunteers was incorporated as a nonprofit organization to coordinate the activities of volunteers working with the Forest Service in the Stanislaus National Forest. Mark was a member.

We've read through this and managed, through Mark's poor use of the legal language, to figure out what seems to have irked him. It appears that Villasenor didn't like the fact that the Forest Service was telling the SWV folks how they had to conduct themselves if they wanted to continue working with them. He determined that this was an inappropriate involvement in a private organization's affairs and thus, somehow, was a violation of his civil rights. So he sued the organization for essentially giving in to the Forest Service's demands.

We should mention that we're not unfamiliar with the FS people, or the sometimes unreasonable demands that they make of associated volunteer organizations. But for better or worse, there's no law requiring the FS or any other government agency to take volunteers at all, let alone to allow them to run things as they see fit. It seems that the FS took the position that "you can do things our way, or you can do things on your own without FS volunteer uniforms or any other trappings of officialdom."

Here in SoCal, one of our little Casey-hatin' band is in fact a volunteer with two such organizations, one of which is focused on Search and Rescue and the other of which helps rebuild and maintain trails. He's avoided joining any of the "official" Forest Service volunteer groups precisely because he doesn't want to be subject to as many of their rules. Of course, he also gives up the opportunity to participate in certain types of activities that are reserved for more "official" types and does so with the knowledge that the FS could at any time and for any reason decide that the volunteer efforts are no longer desired.

Mark seems particularly pissed off about the fact that one of his buddies was removed from the board of the SWV after repeatedly pissing off the local FS people and -- it seems -- insisting on a mode of operation that was contrary not only to the FS rules, but also to the rules established by the organization. He seems to have been the sort of guy we have encountered through participation on CERT activities in southern California: the kind of guy who wants everybody to be in uniform, who will have set up his own entire command structure outside that of the sponsoring agency, and who will make unreasonable demands not only on the other volunteers but on the sponsoring agency itself. You see these guys at quarterly LAFD drills. They're the ones with their own radios, helmets, rescue gear, etc. In fact, some of them show up with more thousands of dollars of their own gear, often more than the firefighter/trainers have! And they always want to jump in and tell everybody else how things need to be done.

The guy who sponsored our own CERT class was like that. He and his HAM radio club sponsored the class. He wanted to force all the participants into some additional training focused on use of radios in an emergency. He wanted to set up a local SAR team for callup during an emergency. For months after the class he pestered everybody who had attended (including those from outside his immediate area) about joining his private little group. He tried to set up an emergency chain of command that bypassed all local authorities. He declared himself the "commissioner" of the group and gave himself a "commissioner" email. (OK, it was a gmail account, but still...) He was quite clearly uninterested in participation by women or by those who saw their role in an emergency as being neighborhood points of contact and information rather than as active SAR types. Eventually he pissed off the LAFD folks to the point where he was "disinvited" from sponsoring any further CERT activities. Sounds like the same thing happened to Mark's buddy. Mark didn't like it.

Also, it seems that the SWV, in coordination with the FS, instituted a set of rules about use of dogs during volunteer activities that irked Mark. Again, he attributed this to FS meddling and his own organizations' unwillingness to be more independent.

How all this translates into a violation of Mark's civil rights is somewhat unclear to us.

It seems to us that this is essentially the problem with Mark, both during the Casey saga and apparently elsewhere in his life. Like many Americans (in fact, very much like Casey) he's decided that he deserves to have things both ways: he wants to be an official Forest Service volunteer, but somehow also wants to have the right to volunteer on his own terms and to be able to reject Forest Service rules when they don't suit him.

Back in the IAFF days he wanted to be a very public participant in what was a very public saga, yet felt that he was entitled to privacy in all matters other than those that he personally chose to discuss. He went so far as saying that his name could not be used because he hadn't actually provided it himself (rather, he provided "clues" that allowed anybody with Google and a brain to deduce his name in about 30 seconds). Some in the Caseysphere chose to accede to his demands either out of courtesy for a fellow Hater or out of fear of a BS lawsuit. We're sufficiently versed in law that we choose not to do so. His activities and history are not only relevant to the story, but they actually became a matter of public record, once he filed a lawsuit against Casey.

We could go on and on. But we got the documents and they are linked here, so feel free to read them for yourselves if you care to:

Mark Villasenor's complaint

Stanislaus Wilderness Volunteers' response to Mark Villasenor's complaint

In any event, it seems that Mark decided to move on, and in fact started his own nonprofit volunteer organization focused on the use of dogs to help the disabled enjoy the wilderness. Good for him.

Hope this helps those of you who are still trying to get a full picture of the individuals Casey has associated with over the years.

And that's the view from FalseCasey HQ, where it's cold and foggy.

I Am Fighting Foreclosure???

He's baaaaaack!

http://www.iamfightingforeclosure.com

Our friend BTC has summed this up quite adroitly, and we have little to add:

The premise is completely untrue, which is 80-90% of the problem with everything since IAFF. IAFF was true in it's basic premise: he WAS facing foreclosure. Avoiding it, managing it stupidly, turning it into a silly game that gutted him, but unquestionably FACING it on multiple properties. How it all worked out was what kept people glued to it.

Foreclosure Help Book provided neither help nor a book. Escape My House had nothing to do with escaping any houses as he had none. Able Buyer is not able to buy anything. I Survived Foreclosure was true only in the very limited sense that Casey remained alive through the process. Millionaire By Christmas had nothing to do with becoming a millionaire, neither by Christmas nor any other time. My Foreclosure Story had no story to tell. Mortgage Elimination Man eliminated no mortgages and it's questionable whether the word "man" should apply to Casey in the first place. TrueCasey was anything but true. Island2012 has no island and no plan for getting one by 2012, or for that matter 2112.

Following in this grand tradition, I Am Fighting Foreclosure will not involve any kind of fighting, because that suggests actually doing something, which sounds suspiciously like work. We know what Casey thinks about that.

Difficult to disagree with that.

And that's the way things are here at FalseCasey HQ, where we're wondering if there'll ever be a summer.

Lisa and Her Tits are Hiding

But not very well, as we'll discuss soon enough.

First an apology for our long absence and the dearth of posts in the month or two prior. Unfortunately, job troubles for one of us and a death in the family for another have kept us away from Casey and his idiocy for far too long. Not that we haven't been checking in from time to time, we just haven't had time for the detailed analysis and discussion for which our blog is famous. Rather than simply pass along headlines that have been generously made available by our friends at Camp Idiot, we have chosen silence. Now it is time for that silence to be broken.

LisaTits is back, though you would never know it if you were to Google her name, or at least the name we knew her by, which was Lisa Scifo, her married name.

The other day, she changed her name to Lisa Henry, or should we say she changed it back? It's obvious that Henry was her maiden name, a name she left behind when she married Matt Scifo and which she continued to use after he filed for divorce, they lost their house to foreclosure, etc. Knowing what she's up to now, Matt is probably quite happy to have his name back.

Her family should probably feel otherwise, as we will see later.

As documented over on Caseypedia, boyfriend and co-conspirator Mike Masterson has apparently moved the business in a new direction, which is the selling of "authorized user" spaces on unused credit cards. This is one of the older "credit repair" scams out there. For a fee, somebody will let you list yourself as an "authorized user" on their unused credit card account. You never get a card so you can never actually use the account, but it does show up on your credit record and in the past may have helped improve your score.

That is, until the credit industry figured this one out and instituted something called FICO '08, which initially planned to drop all "authorized users" from credit scoring entirely, and later restored them but to a much more limited degree designed only to enable members of the same household to share credit accounts and scores. A competing system called VantageScore has never considered "authorized users" to have credit accounts of their own. These days, anybody paying to be an "authorized user" of a stranger's credit card is in fact paying for nothing at all. Giving hundreds of dollars to the big-titted hustler and her chicken-incinerating co-conspirator is not likely to yield much.

The business must not be going all that well, because in addition to the "specials" linked above, the Executive Consultant Group LLC duo have also seen fit to offer a 10% off coupon, reproduced at the top of this communique. As one of the more astute commenters on CI noted: "Economy's so bad even the scammers are giving discounts."

Of course, it may even be worse than that. Remember how we said that Lisa's ex is probably glad to have his name back but her family might not feel the same way? It seems that by changing her name back, she's revealed all of them as well as Mike's family to public scrutiny. We won't get into the details because it has been so juicily and meticulously aired on CI and we prefer that you read it at the source, but it's great stuff. Among other things this information suggests pretty conclusively that the house where Casey's infamous "chicken incineration video" was shot probably did not belong to Lisa and Mike, rather it's Mike's sister's place and that in all likelihood her kids are the ones that Lisa claimed to be nannying in her Facebook profile some time back.

We also note that around the time of Lisa's name change, the company's crappy old website went blank and was replaced with the company blog from which the above coupon was copied. And not only one blog, but two, the second being merely a bad blogspot copy of the bad Wordpress blog that contains the original. It's so badly done we have to wonder if they actually hired Casey to do the work.

So there you have it. An amateurish attempt to hide from the editors of Caseypedia, the sleuths of CI and the mysterious denizens of CHC. Failed, naturally. But the attempt didn't just fail to address the bad publicity problem, as this piece, the comments on CI and the Caseypedia article will easily link Lisa Scifo, now Lisa Henry, Mike Masterson and the Executive Consultant Group LLC for the rest of eternity. The attempt has generated new interest by those parties who previously sought only to enjoy a quick intermission now and then courtesy of a photo of Lisa's funbags. As a result, both of their entire families have now been slimed as associates of their sleazy business.

There is only one right way to do business with Casey: not at all. There is only one right way to react to being outed: move on, forget it and do something else. Fighting it just makes it worse and scammers who don't crawl back under their rocks get what they deserve.

And that's the way things are here at FC HQ, where we're settling back in after too much time away.