Jeremy Michael Skeens "Siggy Skeens" "Kingston Raine" Jeremy Skeens is a scam artist who gets people to trust him and then rips them off by having them deposit checks into thier bank accounts, then remove the funds for him Lexington, Kentucky

We met Jeremy Michael, formally known as (Jeremy Michael Derks) through a mutual friend at church here in Las Vegas. Upon meeting Jeremy, he mentioned an e-commerce business he maintains and provides services through Shopify called “The Drop Shipping Company, LLC.” After further in-depth discussion with Jeremy, we decided to move forward with the investment. Jeremy requested an initial investment of $30,000 to build, maintain and provide services for 2 Shopify stores for a duration of 24 months and said they would be up and running within 3-4 days after the initial investment was paid. We paid Jeremy the initial amount of $30,000 through a wire transfer from our bank (Navy Federal) on or around May 17th, 2023, in which Jeremy confirmed the receipt of the payment. Once the payment was received Jeremy then began to build the stores with our cooperation and was communicating as needed. We reached the 3–4-day period and did not have any of our stores up and running, soon thereafter days turned into weeks, and we started receiving multiple excuses from Jeremy as to why the stores were not finished. Jeremy then started to become less communicative and less responsive to building the stores and maintaining the ads and sales as promised. We grew suspicious during this time and started to do more research on Jeremy using the internet and found multiple reports, complaints, videos, and testimonies about Jeremy being a con artist and scamming multiple people for years out of tens of thousands of dollars if not hundreds. Since then, Jeremy has continued to neglect his commitment to building our stores and does not communicate the progress, status, or his intentions. We asked for the money back and he responded by saying he would give us stores that are already built and making $2,000 -$5,000 a month but that was as far as it went, a verbal commitment and no action. It has been over a month now, so we are getting together with other victims to persecute Jeremy on a Federal Level.

PLEASE REPORT HIM TO THE DOJ (DEPARTMNET OF JUSTICE AND THE FBI) IF YOU HAVE BEEN A VICTIM PLEASE CONTACT ME AT JRYANMAKEHITZ@GMAIL.COM WE ARE GOING TO PUT JEREMY IN A FEDERAL PRISON.

  Now going by the name VONN KISS!!!! This person scammed me out of thousands of dollars. He claims to be a famous singer who is produced by Gretchen Wilson. This is phony, DONT BE FOOLED. He Never paid me and never paid any of my friends who he scammed also. He's been scamming people since 1997, and has moved countless times, all the way from myrtle beach, los Angeles, Nashville, Chicago, Mason, etc After some digging, I saw many reports on here about this guy who has changed his name a bunch of times and ripped others off. His real name is Jeremy Michael skeens, and he is no musical artist. He uses music as a cover up to his scam. He has a gambling addiction, and he uses other people's money to go gamble. He also seeks out women with great credit to sign for his fancy cars, Porsches, bentleys, range rovers, all of which he can't obviously afford. The guy hasn't had a job ever besides when he owned a run down back yard landscaping company that made enough money for him to go to the casino on. Everything he has ever owned has been repossessed, stolen, etc. he seeks out young pretty girls with amazing credit, and gives them all a sob story about him being a pro baseball player and getting injured and ruining his credit, and that he's now a rising star in music and he's rich and needs to build his credit, and he promises to pay for what they sign for. BEWARE OF THIS SCAMMER.

Sony records? False. He doesn't write songs for anyone but his girlfriends who he knocks up and then takes money from from. He's never sold a song, made an album, or been signed. lies lies lies. Look it up. All this guy is, is a guy who had talent playing bbaseball and got drafted by the reds in 97, and messed it up. So he gambles and loses and scams ppeople and that's he how he survives. he was in a band once and I know it for a fact that he scammed every one of them. 

He actually had the drummer sign of an apartment and a couple four wheelers and never paid for it. The guitarist got his credit card maxed out and got off easy because he left at the right time, after seeing him fake a break in at his apartment for insurance fraud. He's scammed his mom, grandma, dad, friends, and anyone he meets. This is how he survives. It's all he knows. Ask any cop, detective, bank, credit card company they all know his name!!!!! He's famous for having girls sign for cars and running off with them And not paying! 

I'm a fairly strong business person with a reasonable gut instinct. This person took advantage of me at a weak time in my life and got me for $8,000. He's definitely a scam artist, and a d**n good one. My tail is between my legs, but I learned a valuable lesson. No one will EVER take advantage of me again. I will forever steer clear of this individual, and others like him. but I tip my hat to how cunning and manipulative he really is. Goodbye. 

In the interest of full disclosure: since our original report here, a police report was filed, and then the bad check was paid off in full.

It would seem "siggy" has tried to clear his name himself...i know the original poster and everything stated is 100% truth. He tried the same shady tactics with me but with no luck. Please be cautious when dealing with this one because his selfishness knows no bounds. He will continue to use people for what he can get and toss them aside when hes done.
This guy is absolutely useless and has none of the so called business sense he insists he has..its actually quite humerous to watch once you know his scam. Anyway way good luck to those who meet this skinflint and laugh at him when he tries his scam on you.

Jeremy Skeens ordered more than $700 of printing services from my company and paid with a check. The check was stop payment by the account holder because the check was unauthorized. I have tried to call, text, and email this guy and have received no response. I am going to file charges against this person this afternoon, especially having read this report of such a similar transaction form the same person. If anyone has additional information I can use to nail this guy to the wall for this, please forward to me. This happened in Kettering Ohio.

This is also an excellent example of how a few dollars can change one's attitude ( not to mention changing a ripoff report ! ).  It is so very evident that the author received a sum of money to change his original report.  Seriously, how does your bank bouncing bad checks equal a "misunderstanding".  The checks were bogus, and the bank bounced them.  There's no "misunderstanding" there.  I go with the first report as being the truthful one.

and this is why we wait before posting something claiming someone ripped you off. 

I recently filed a report on Jeremy Michael Skeens, however at this time I would like to update this report due to the fact that it was all a huge misunderstanding and I was very angry at first which led to the filing of that report. Mr. Skeens has gone out of his way to take care of me and the problems that had arisen that prompted me to file the report. As far as the bad checks go, the checks weren't bad it was all just a misunderstanding and he made sure the checks were paid in full. I also found out that he actually IS a songwriter and IS currently signed to the Sony record label. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for any comments that I have made that are untrue and for the filing of this report since I was grossly misinformed about this individual. He is a good person whom I would gladly do business with in the future and would encourage anyone else to do as well. I would also like to apologize to Mr. Skeens for any hardship that this report may have caused him or any of his business associates. I am greatly in his debt and will do whatever necessary to right this wrong I have done by filing this report. My apologies to all.