My name is Emily M. This post will be ONLY based on Tariq Abdul-Hadi's own words in emails he has sent to me in the last few days. You can download the complete emails in pdf here ... If the rip off report system strips out the web address to download the files I will repost them and make notice.
I want to express in the beginning of this submission that I am not taking anyones side. I also want to express that Trent Daniel owes me and my husband money for services we paid for that we did not get, but we do not feel that he stole our money. We know several people in finance related businesses that suffered client losses when the econonmy went bad and Trent has satisfied us that he was one of them. Trent Daniel is a bad communicator and that is the extent of our negative feelings about him.
Now that I have said that I wish to express to you what Mr. Tariq Abdul-Hadi has done and is attempting to do in his organization to SHUT TRENT DOWN. When I first saw his post about this organization last week I decided to express an interest to join just to see where he was coming from. I told him I did not want to become a part of a personal battle and this was his response (email dated April 13, 2010 from email address brothertariq@gmail.com)
... THIS IS A PERSONAL BATTLE!!! With all of the stories that we can gather, we will be able to approach the Harris County District Attorney and request an investigation that will lead to the following: #1. To put an immediate stop to Trent's deceitful buisness practices. #2. To force the seizure of any assets that Trent and/or his businesses own in order to pay back the victims for their losses. #3. To file criminal charges against Trent for his willful and deliberate intent to deceive investors and consumers....
After seeing where he was going with this I posted a rip off report that said I was leary of his organization and that he made it seem like he had the support of the Harris County DA's office. I was in error for saying that because that is not what Tariq said. I promised Tariq I would correct that statement and I am doing so now. The problem for us was when Tariq read the statement I made about the DA's office he immediately accused me and my husband of colluding with Trent.
In email dated April 15 he said:
... I never outed you as a source of information and I suspect that your actions were for no other purpose than to embarrass me at the urging of Trent and maybe others. I never contacted Trent or Imagine International and told them you were communicating with me ...
Whenever challenged, Mr. Tariq always said that someone was embarrassing him and working with Trent. That was not true, but it became a familiar tune over the last few days. To prove this further I asked Mr. Tariq the following questions in an email on April 14.
1. Did Trent try to pay you the money they owed you and why did you refuse to accept it?
2. How many other people have teamed up with you in this organization. You mentioned in your email an investor who lost $50,000 and another who lost more. Are they a part of this because they have much higher amounts lost than I do?
3. Why did they claim you tried to extort the company in a post on ripoffreport.com
4. What is the status of the police report the ripoffreport said was filed against you. This is very important to us because we do not want to get caught up in anything like that?
5. How exactly will we be able to get our money back by working with you?
His only response was to avoid the question and get defensive:
... The tone of email was intended to match the tone of your email wherein which you questioned me as though I should be held in skepticism as reflected in your interrogating questions. ...
I told Mr. Tariq in an email from April 15th:
Thanks for you reply. Please understand sir that my questions were legitimate because you are asking people (us) to join you. Questions between partners are okay but as you just said you felt like you were being held in skepticism. I personally think that you tend to give off an air of always being on the defensive.
He responded again only to defend himself by saying on April 16th:
... I think that your judgment of me based on emails is incorrect....I have suffered much to my reputation because I exposed Trent...
Fearing that Mr. Tariq was so obsessed with Trent Daniel even to the point of where he might try to hurt him, his partner and his wife physically, I began to press him harder to see if I needed to alert Trent or the authorities. I said in my next email on April 16:
... You want to take him down but what happens if you do not succeed in hurting him? How far would you go? ....
His response on April 16:
... Trent has failed to this day to admit that he wilfully performed acts that he knew were wrong at the time that he committed them. Trent's offer to tell people that he is sorry for failing to communicate with them about the status of why they haven't received the services he promised is not a truthful discourse...
Although Mr. Tariq says Trent was being untruthful he never would answer as to why he believed that. I then lied to Mr. Tariq by saying:
... I do know that Trent and Sarah both have new cars now so they must have found a way to overcome the loss. You posted in the rip off report that them losing the car was a touchdown - they now have two. What good came from that situation? ....
His response was:
... Having went on to acquire two new cars for instance is not an accomplishment when you owe people several thousands of dollars. The first action of Trent should've been to make right what he has done wrong. Some of the people who have lost money with Trent can't go get a new car let alone two....
The problem I had with this is that Trent is making things right. I lied to Mr. Tariq about the cars to see if he would verify what I was saying or just take me at face value because I said something to confirm his beliefs about Trent. I then decided to try to steer the situation to the overall reason for the organization as Tariq had stated in his rip off report post. My email from April 16th said:
.... If we are going to go to the DA we are going to have to present an organized case that proves crimes have been committed.
1. We need to show that Trent had no intentions of delivering the work people paid for. How do we do this? In our case we can't show that because he successfully did work for the several people who referred us to him so the assumption will be he just failed and owes us money which is civil and not criminal.
2. We should try to get affidavits or the cooperation of the investors to support that Trent lied to them to get their money. Just showing that they lost money is not going to be enough.
3. We need to show he did not use their money for the business(es) they invested in. How do we do this?
Mr. Tariq's reponse on April 16th was:
Our case before the DA must entail a systematized record many factors including but not limited to the following:
1. Person(s) who have paid for services from Trent and have failed to receive them should first begin by sending a letter via certified mail with return receipt requested to Trent, that details the specifics of their claim to the money that Trent owes them and a demand that he return that money for failure to provide the services and/or products they purchased. This demand should request that their monies be paid in full within thirty days. Knowing Trent these letters will be disregarded and go unanswered. The letters are however evidence against him if he fails to answer them and a violation of the Consumer Protection Laws of Texas.
2. Those persons who have received services that did not fulfill the claims purported by Trent should also send a letter of complaint to Trent demanding a resolution. If it has been more than a year since they received these faulty services they should send a letter requesting an explanation as to why the services do not perform according to Trent's claims.
3. Now the necessity to prove that Trent had no intentions of delivering the work that people paid for can be done by proving that the work was shoddy, deficient of normal professional standards, and never worked. Another point to add is that the method in which Trent used to build these credit profiles was illegal and misleading.
I understood the first 2 responses because they were truly steps to correct a situation. The third one was strange to me becuase Mr. Tariq was saying that to prove Trent took people's money with no intention to do the work was to show the work he did was sub-standard! I responded last night by saying:
... To me that makes no sense at all! You are saying to prove he had no intention of doing the work we need to show that he did the work but that it was deficient. If he did some work ... that is work. Quality of work is not the litmus test for no work at all. Think about it. I told you he successfully got thousands of dollars of credit for my friends so it's obvious he was doing something. How can we prove that he did nothing. If he comes up with one record that proves otherwise we are going to be made to look like fools. How do we prove his intent to do nothing when he was doing something?...
The next thing Mr. Tariq did (that I knew was illegal) showed me completely he was willing to do anything to hurt Trent, his wife, and his partner. In an email on April 16 I lied again about someone I knew that worked for Trent:
... On a more interesting note, Trent's assistant and I are meeting on Saturday and she told me she can get anything out of his office without him knowing. She said there are new business credit account folders marked 2010 that have thousands of dollars of credit approved including a $250,000 amex account that the cards just arrived for. She also can get usernames and passwords to his back up email file which he never accesses. It can be logged into from the web.
She said there are many emails from pissed off people, creditors, etc. The problem is that she cannot print these because the print server would show the file extensions, but the usernames and passwords can be used to access his NAS drive from outside to get all that is there and he would not have a clue. She also can get logins to the personal (not business) bank acocunts which also can be accessed without his knowing. She said there are like 9 personal accounts with alot of money going back and forth. Strange. What do you want me to tell her because I am meeting with her on Saturday early afternoon and she can do this over the weekend while he is gone? I can send you everything from and to a private email address by yousendit.com or something like that.
... HIS NEXT REPONSE WAS A CLEAR ENDORSEMENT OF STEALING INFO, FILES AND COMPUTER ACCESS FROM TRENT'S OFFICE. HE SAID IN AN EMAIL FROM LAST NIGHT:
... First I should address your allay your fears about my sharing information with others in the campaign. I am 100% loyal to the privacy of others who share things with me and would not disclose anything without your prior approval.
... Everything that you listed as accessible to your friend has tremendous evidentiary value and would certainly help in unwinding the intricate scheme that Trent has put together. If your friend is willing to join the campaign and provide information to you that can be used Trent down then I say good for her to take such a bold stance. I am interested to know though what is reason behind her wanting to give you all this information? Whatever the case if you come across something I would be glad to take a look at it.
At this moment I knew Mr. Tariq was dangerous! He actually endorsed someone stealing information and computer access to bank accounts as someting that would help his organization to shut Trent down!!! Once I read this I immediately told my husband so he wrote Tariq another email. In that email, my husband (pretending to be me) said:
... 1. You said in your email yesterday --- There are also other investors at the top of the food chain that have and continue to reap rewards from every new dollar that is poured into the company. We don't need to show that people lost money, we need to show that Trent is conducting a ponzi scheme and paying old investors with the money of new investors. But you also said that we should get affidavits and cooperation from investors which I assume means you have not yet gotten that support. ....
His response was again another attack on me:
... Please be advised that it is the firm belief that you are in fact misrepresenting yourself as Emily Mason and are in fact Trent Thompson Daniel ... Effective immediately you are not to send any emails to brothertariq@gmail.com. Your emails are considered unsolicited and an abuse report will be filed and your disregard for this warning will be considered harassment.
Lastly, I am alarmed that Mr. Tariq has been able to get information from Trent's attorney. He said this to support his claims (email from Tariq on April 16).
... Trent told this to an attorney that once worked for Imagine International.... __________________________________________________________________
As I said in my earlier posts, Trent is paying us what he owes as he is paying others. I am satisfied. It is not for me to expose the reasons Trent gave us for his financial struggles but I do know that his sincerity was refreshing to us and we appreciated his candor. We did get a small payment today. It was not alot, but it was a good faith effort on Trent's part and we appreciate that.
I am making this post to warn people because these emails prove that Tariq Abdul-Hadi is obssessed with hurting Trent, Sarah and his partner or anyone affiliated with Imagine International. I also believe, based on these emails, that he is capable and willing to attempt a physcial attack on them as well. He admitted that he was interested in getting stolen information from their home!
What is clearly evident is that he is wanting to recruit people to do harm and damage ...
I have not previously notified Trent or anyone else about this but due to concern for his safety, his wife and partner I am doing so now. I am also filing a police report about Mr. Abdul-Hadi's endorsement of stealing information from Trent's home.
Emily M
Why file a report here? Ripoff Report is a permanent record! Other complaint sites copy our content then remove reports for money.
